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Royal Challengers Bengaluru intention for a house win towards Delhi Capitals earlier than the Girls’s Premier League strikes to Lucknow.
RCB have misplaced their final three video games of WPL 2025. (BCCI Picture)
Defending champions Royal Challengers Bengaluru can be decided to provide their house followers a parting victory over a fatigued Delhi Capitals outfit in Bengaluru on Saturday, earlier than the Girls’s Premier League strikes to Lucknow for its third leg.
RCB had begun the third season of WPL with two wins in Vadodara, however their fortunes have nosedived because the event caravan shifted to their house floor M Chinnaswamy right here. Three consecutive defeats, together with a heartbreaking loss within the Tremendous Over to UP Warriorz, have left them reeling.
Positioned third on the desk and winless at house thus far, RCB can be determined to bounce again towards a Delhi Capitals facet going through the problem of enjoying back-to-back video games earlier than the WPL heads to Lucknow.
The Meg Lanning-led Capitals can have little restoration time as they tackle Mumbai Indians in a top-of-the-table conflict on Friday earlier than locking horns with RCB the very subsequent day.
RCB’s struggles have been obvious in each batting and bowling. Their batting unit collapsed within the defeat towards Gujarat Giants on Thursday, with skipper Smriti Mandhana‘s type being a serious concern. Her 81 towards DC stays her solely notable knock in 5 innings, as spin continues to be her Achilles’ heel.
Her opening companion, England’s Danni Wyatt-Hodge too has been inconsistent, whereas Australian veteran Ellyse Perry, regardless of being in sensational contact, suffered a uncommon failure with a maiden WPL duck towards Gujarat Giants.
The bowling division has been equally underwhelming. Frontline pacers Renuka Singh and Kim Garth have lacked consistency, typically erring in line and size.
Spinners Georgia Wareham, Ekta Bisht, and Kanika Ahuja have struggled to exert management within the essential center overs, compounding RCB’s woes additional.
Delhi Capitals, too, have endured an inconsistent marketing campaign, with two losses sandwiched between three wins. Their batting lineup has lastly began firing with Shafali Verma and Jess Jonassen discovering type.
Nevertheless, skipper Lanning continues to battle on the prime. Jemimah Rodrigues and Annabel Sutherland have supplied occasional fireworks within the center order, however DC will search extra consistency from their batting unit.
In Shikha Pandey, Marizanne Kapp, younger Titas Sadhu, Sutherland,and Minnu Mani, DC boast a formidable bowling assault, making them a harmful opponent regardless of their inconsistencies.
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Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Smriti Mandhana (c), Kanika Ahuja, Ekta Bisht, Charlie Dean, Kim Garth, Richa Ghosh (wk), Heather Graham, VJ Joshitha, Sabbhineni Meghana, Nuzhat Parween, Jagravi Pawar, Ellyse Perry, Raghvi Bist, Sneh Rana, Prema Rawat, Renuka Singh, Georgia Wareham, Danni Wyatt-Hodge.
Delhi Capitals: Meg Lanning (c), Jemimah Rodrigues, Shafali Verma, Sneha Deepthi, Alice Capsey, Annabel Sutherland, Arundhati Reddy, Jess Jonassen, Marizanne Kapp, Minnu Mani, N Charani, Niki Prasad, Radha Yadav, Shikha Pandey, Nandini Kashyap (wk), Taniyaa Bhatia (wk), Sarah Bryce (wk), Titas Sadhu.
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