Rahul Tiwari
khelja|18-02-2025
The fourth match of the Women's Premier League 2025 was played between the teams of Delhi Capitals and Royal Challengers Bangalore. In this match, Royal Challengers Bangalore won unilaterally due to his captaincy Smriti Mandhana's strong innings. The match between the two teams was played in Vadodara's Kotambi Stadium. With this, Delhi had to face the first defeat of the season. He won his previous match. At the same time, defending champion Royal Challengers Bangalore won the second consecutive win.
Royal Challengers Bangalore won the toss in this match and decided to bowl first, Smriti Mandhana's decision proved to be correct. Renuka Thakur showed Shefali Verma to the pavilion in the very first over of the match. After this, Delhi lost the second wicket in the 7th over and then no batsman could handle the innings. Delhi's team could play only 19.3 overs and was all out after scoring 141 runs. During this, Jemima Rodrigues scored the highest 34 runs. Apart from him, no player could touch the 30 -run figure.
On the other hand, Renuka Thakur and Georgia Wareham Royal Challengers were the most successful bowlers of Bangalore. Both bowlers took 3-3 wickets. At the same time, Kim Garth and Ekta Bisht made 2-2 batsmen their victims.
Royal Challengers Bangalore started chasing the target by 142 runs. There was a great opening partnership between Smriti Mandhana and Danny Wait. Both players added 107 runs in 10.5 overs for the first wicket. Danny Wet scored 42 runs off 33 balls. At the same time, Smriti Mandhana scored a stormy half -century. He touched the 50 -run mark off just 26 balls. Even after this, he continued to score at a fast pace and scored 81 runs off 47 balls at a strike rate of 172.34. During this, Mandhana hit fours and 3 sixes. At the same time, RCB achieved target at the loss of 2 wickets in 16.2 overs. With this, he remains number in the points table.