The Gujarat Giants Women and RCB Women played the 6th match of the first-ever WPL on 8 March 2023. We will give you some more details in this article. If you missed this match, then do not worry about it. You will know all about what happened after you read this article. All the important HIGHLIGHTS, that is.
RCB women and GG women didn’t start their tournaments well. And this match will be a chance to win and get a better position on the WPL points table. So let’s being
Match details
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| Match 6 | |
| Venue | Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai |
| Date | Wednesday, March 8, 2023 |
| Time | 7:30 PM |
| Match | Gujarat Giants v RCB Women |
| Umpires | Ranjeev Sharma |
| Sanjay Kumar Singh | |
| TV Umpire | Nitin Pandit |
| Reserve Umpire | Gayathri Venugopalan |
| Match Referee | GS Lakshmi |
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Playing 11
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| GUJARAT GIANTS | RCB WOMEN |
| Sabbhineni Meghana | Smriti Mandhana |
| Sophia Dunkley | Sophie Devine |
| Harleen Deol | Ellyse Perry |
| Ashleigh Gardner | Richa Ghosh |
| Dayalan Hemalatha | Heather Knight |
| Annabel Sutherland | Kanika Ahuja |
| Sneh Rana | Poonam Khemnar |
| Kim Garth | Shreyanka Patil |
| Sushma Verma | Megan Schutt |
| Tanuja Kanwar | Renuka Singh |
| Mansi Joshi | Preeti Bose |
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1st Innings
- Gujarat finished with 201 thanks to a superb bat effort.
- The RCB bowlers are getting pummeled again.
- Sophia Dunkley ripped them apart on the powerplay, racing to fifty off only 18 balls.
- Dunkley was removed, and Harleen Deol took over, displaying her brilliance as she superbly struck the ball inching closer to a hit of 67 off 45 deliveries.
- The pitch is decent, and the boundaries are small, but this will require some running, particularly for a nervous squad.
2nd Innings
- Gujarat Giants captured their first WPL victory, although they were given quite a fright tonight.
- RCB lost Mandhana early on, but Sophie Devine and Ellyse Perry formed a solid connection.
- The earlier demonstrated her raw strength, walloping a few sixes on her way to her first WPL fifty.
- Perry was on track for a massive score before cutting one towards a backward point in the 12th over.
- Gujarat gained timely wickets after that to maintain its lead in the match.
- Ashleigh Gardner finished the game with two wickets in her final two overs.
- In the end, RCB got huge smashes from Heather Knight and Shreyanka Patil, but it was too late. RCB suffers yet another defeat.
Match Summary
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| GG won the toss and chose to bat first. | |
| GUJARAT GIANTS 201-7 | |
| BATTING | BOWLING |
| Harleen Deol 67(45) | Shreyanka Patil 2-32 |
| Sophia Dunkley 65(28) | Heather Knight 2-17 |
| Ashleigh Gardner 19(15) | Megan Schutt 1-26 |
| TARGET = 202 runs | |
| RCB WOMEN 190-6 | |
| BATTING | BOWLING |
| Sophie Devine 66(45) | Ashleigh Gardner 3-31 |
| Ellyse Perry 32(25) | Annabel Sutherland 2-56 |
| Heather Knight 30(11) | Mansi Joshi 1-9 |
| RESULT = GG won by 11 runs | |
| PoM = Sophia Dunkley | |
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