WPL: DC to face RCB at Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi: DC opt to bat
In Cricket, Delhi Capitals will face Royal Challengers Bangalore in Women’s Premier League (WPL) at Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi today. The match will start at 7:30 in the evening. Delhi Capitals Women have won the toss and have opted to bat.
DC Women who are placed second in the points table and RCB – placed on the third spot in the table, will locks horns in today’s clash at the Arun Jaitley Stadium. Delhi Capitals won against RCB Women at the Chinnaswamy earlier this season, will the Challengers manage to level things up and win tonight? Only time will tell.
The openers of both the teams have the capability of entertaining the crowd, so this contest should prove to be an interesting one. Stay tuned for the toss and teams..
Delhi Capitals may be only one game from securing their place in the playoffs, but given their dominance in the tournament so far, they would be chasing nothing less than a top-place finish, the fight for which would require a victory over Royal Challengers Bangalore on Sunday.
While the victory for UP Warriorz on Saturday has kept the brief chance open for RCB to chase that top position, they have also found themselves in a tricky situation for a playoff berth.
The tournament is well-placed for all the late drama, and now beyond the skills, even the nerves will be tested for these teams. The one-run loss in the last game wouldn’t leave DC’s experienced unit fretting too much, but RCB’s top-order will have to yet again take the burden of scoring. Georgia Wareham coming good with the bat will be a key takeaway for them, but yet again in the absence of the crowd support, they will need many more players firing.
Squads:
Delhi Capitals Women Squad: Meg Lanning(c), Shafali Verma, Alice Capsey, Jemimah Rodrigues, Annabel Sutherland, Jess Jonassen, Arundhati Reddy, Shikha Pandey, Radha Yadav, Taniya Bhatia(w), Titas Sadhu, Marizanne Kapp, Laura Harris, Minnu Mani, Poonam Yadav, Ashwani Kumari, Aparna Mondal, Sneha Deepthi
Royal Challengers Bangalore Women Squad: Sabbhineni Meghana, Smriti Mandhana(c), Ellyse Perry, Sophie Devine, Richa Ghosh(w), Georgia Wareham, Sophie Molineux, Simran Bahadur, Ekta Bisht, Asha Sobhana, Renuka Thakur Singh, Kate Cross, Nadine de Klerk, Shreyanka Patil, Disha Kasat, Shubha Satheesh, Shraddha Pokharkar, Indrani Roy.
