Today was the match between Delhi Capitals and UP Warriorz on 7 March 2023. Another high-scoring match! The women’s Premier League is becoming pretty interesting and entertaining. Truly, it is a T20 tournament through and through.
The two teams started to a victorious beginning in their separate initial Women’s Premier League matches, thanks to some remarkable batting displays. Want to know how this match turned out to be? Continue reading the article.
Match 5
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| MATCH 5 | |
| Date | Tuesday, March 7, 2023 |
| Time | 7:30 pm IST |
| Venue | Dr DY Patil Sports Academy, Mumbai |
| Match | UP Warriorz v Delhi Capitals Women |
| Umpires | Chirra Ravikanthreddy |
| Vrinda Rathi | |
| TV Umpire | N Janani |
| Reserve Umpire | Madanagopal Kuppuraj |
| Match Referee | Rajni Basnet |
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Playing 11
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| DELHI CAPITALS WOMEN | UP WARRIORZ WOMEN |
| Meg Lanning | Alyssa Healy |
| Shafali Verma | Shweta Sehrawat |
| Marizanne Kapp | Kiran Navgire |
| Jemimah Rodrigues | Tahlia McGrath |
| Alice Capsey | Deepti Sharma |
| Jess Jonassen | Simran Shaikh |
| Taniya Bhatia | Devika Vaidya |
| Arundhati Reddy | Shabnim Ismail |
| Shikha Pandey | Sophie Ecclestone |
| Radha Yadav | Anjali Sarvani |
| Tara Norris | Rajeshwari Gayakwad |
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1st Innings
- The Delhi Capitals are putting their powerful batting lineup on display in the tournament.
- Lanning and Shafali put them back on track with a 60+ stand during the powerplay.
- The skipper went on to score another 70, Capsey stepped out and maintained the boundaries coming, and Jonassen struck again at the end.
- Rodrigues, too, performed her part admirably, forming an undefeated 67-run combination with Jonassen. UPW read too much into the surface, so they delayed the arrival of Deepti and Ecclestone, allowing DC to get off to a solid start.
- This is a large sum, even without Grace Harris to help them out, it will be difficult.
Second innings
- Early in the pursuit, Delhi was completely wrapped up.
- Jess Jonassen’s spectacular left-arm spin knocked down the major danger, Alyssa Healy, early on, and she and Kapp left UP Warriorz staggering on 31/3.
- They only got 33 points on the powerplay, and it was simply too much to handle from there.
- Tahlia McGrath produced a wonderful knock and went on very much an attack at the end, but UP fell short by 42 runs.
- They took the bold decision to exclude Grace Harris following her spectacular performance the night before.
- The plan was to bring in Shabnim Ismail and take some wickets with the new ball. Yet, it wasn’t working out for them today.
Scorecard
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| UP won the toss and chose to field first | |
| DELHI CAPITALS WOMEN 211-4 | |
| BATTING | BOWLING |
| Meg Lanning 70(42) | Shabnim Ismail 1-29 |
| Jess Jonassen 42(20) | Sophie Ecclestone 1-41 |
| Jemimah Rodrigues 34(22) | Tahlia McGrath 1-37 |
| TARGET = 211 runs | |
| UP WARRIORZ 169-5 | |
| BATTING | BOWLING |
| Tahlia McGrath 90(50) | Jess Jonassen 3-43 |
| Alyssa Healy 24(17) | Shikha Pandey 1-18 |
| Devika Vaidya 23(21) | Marizanne Kapp 1-29 |
| RESULT = DC Women won by 42 runs | |
| PoM = Jess Jonassen | |
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