Womens Premier League 2024 (Feb 23- March 17)

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I think Bangalore will have significant home advantage in the first phase of the tournament.

Got to remember last year Mumbai won the WPL with all of the games being in their home city.

Id imagine Delhi will have big home crowd advantage for remaining games in the 2nd half of the tournament.

 

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Game 4 of the WPL:

UP Warriorz (Playing XI): Alyssa Healy(w/c), Vrinda Dinesh, Tahlia McGrath, Grace Harris, Shweta Sehrawat, Kiran Navgire, Poonam Khemnar, Deepti Sharma, Sophie Ecclestone, Rajeshwari Gayakwad, Gouher Sultana

Delhi Capitals Women (Playing XI): Meg Lanning(c), Shafali Verma, Alice Capsey, Jemimah Rodrigues, Marizanne Kapp, Annabel Sutherland, Arundhati Reddy, Minnu Mani, Taniya Bhatia(w), Radha Yadav, Shikha Pandey



Delhi Capitals Women have won the toss and have opted to field

 

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Both teams looking for their 1st win of WPL 2024.

 

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New pitch tonight according to Germanos.

 

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Healy struggling early 1 off 6

 

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Vrinda never looked comfortable and she has to depart for a duck.

 

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Kapp with 2 wickets for 1 run off 13 balls.

 

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Kapp with 3 wickets for 2 runs off 3 overs.

UPWarriorz in all sorts with Healy and McGrath back in the sheds too.

 

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Delhi would be tempted to bowl out Kapp here given how on top they are right now. A 4th wicket would be catastrophic for the UPWarriorz

 

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Kapp with outstanding figures 3 wickets for 5 runs from her 4 overs.

 

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UPWarriorz finish on 119/9 off their 20 overs and give credit to Delhi bowlers for putting the squeeze on them.

Advantage Delhi at the change of innings in Game 4.

 

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Delhi with 57/0 in the powerplay and UPWarriorz have a task to do to pull this back from here.

 

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Delhi chase that down with 33 balls to spare and 9 wickets in hand. 1 word= Comprehensive.

 

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Standings after Game 4:

 

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Game 5 of the WPL:

Gujarat Giants (Playing XI): Beth Mooney(w/c), Veda Krishnamurthy, Harleen Deol, Phoebe Litchfield, Dayalan Hemalatha, Ashleigh Gardner, Kathryn Bryce, Sneh Rana, Tanuja Kanwar, Lea Tahuhu, Meghna Singh

Royal Challengers Bangalore Women (Playing XI): Sophie Devine, Smriti Mandhana(c), Sabbhineni Meghana, Ellyse Perry, Richa Ghosh(w), Georgia Wareham, Sophie Molineux, Shreyanka Patil, Simran Bahadur, Asha Sobhana, Renuka Thakur Singh

cricket. The first game was definitely important but it's also important to forget the past and keep moving. Same team.

Royal Challengers Bangalore Women have won the toss and have opted to field

 

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Renuka with outstanding figures of 14/2 off her 4.0 overs .

Im thinking there is a clear top 3 in this comp. Gujarat and Upwarriorz look like poor teams to me.

 

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Gujarat 107/7 off their 20 overs against RCB

Advantage RCB at the change of innings.

 

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Cricket is so much a sport about momentum ..........

 

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RCB beat Gujarat with 46 balls to spare and 8 wickets in hand.

That wasnt even a contest .


Gujarat and Upwarriorz will be battling for the wooden spoon in WPL 2.

 

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Ladder after Game 5:

 

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Renuka with outstanding figures of 14/2 off her 4.0 overs .

Im thinking there is a clear top 3 in this comp. Gujarat and Upwarriorz look like poor teams to me.

Is that down to the balance in those teams compared with others?

 

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Is that down to the balance in those teams compared with others?

Yep I think so. It seems to me those 2 teams have the poorer standard overall of the local players in their squads.

Healy, Mooney strike me as players that probably play better with better players around them as well.

 

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Game 6 of the WPL:

Mumbai Indians Women (Playing XI): Yastika Bhatia(w), Hayley Matthews, Nat Sciver-Brunt(c), Amelia Kerr, Pooja Vastrakar, Amanjot Kaur, Issy Wong, S Sajana, Humaira Kazi, Keerthana Balakrishnan, Saika Ishaque

UP Warriorz (Playing XI): Alyssa Healy(w/c), Vrinda Dinesh, Tahlia McGrath, Grace Harris, Shweta Sehrawat, Kiran Navgire, Poonam Khemnar, Deepti Sharma, Sophie Ecclestone, Anjali Sarvani, Rajeshwari Gayakwad



UP Warriorz have won the toss and have opted to field

 

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Pitch number 5, where the games 1 and 2 were played .

 

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Sciver-Brunt captain today probably for the one off as Kaur cant play today.