MI’s Harmanpreet Kaur plays a shot, the Women’s Premier League (WPL) 2025 between Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) and Mumbai Indians (Mi), M.Chinnaswamy Stadium on 21 February 2025 in Bengaluru. Photo Credit: Murali Kumar
Garden City rarely recalls the opportunity to convert numbers for a female Premier League match. And so it made M. on Friday. The Chinnaswamy Stadium was filled in the brim. Unfortunately, it had to return home because its beloved Royal Challengers Bangalore lost to Mumbai Indians by four wickets.
An Ellis Perry Special (81, 43B, 11×4, 2×6) took RCB to seven competitive 167, but Mi, Nat Skivor-Bunt’s Scotching 42 (21B, 9×4), Captain Harmanpreet Kaur Part-sent, part-invisible 50 (part-invisible 50 (38B, 8×4, 1×6) and The first rate of the Finishing Act (34, 27B, 2×4, 2×6), the first rate of Amanjot Kaur, gave RCB its first harm in three matches.
Skyver-Bunt set the powerplay overs on fire before Harmanpreet and Amjot and took the equation to 24 runs. Tweight Georgia Wareham almost replaced the game on his head by removing back-to-back delivery to Harmanpreet and Sajana Sajeevan.
But with the requirement of 22 out of 12, Amanjot lived Kanika Ahuja before two sixes. Smoke before Kamalini.
Earlier, RCB was asked to bat first, Perry also blossomed as her withering people. Skipper Smriti Madhana introduced luxurious (26, 13b, 4×4, 1×6), drawing and cutting Shabneem Ismail and Skver-Bunt in expert fashion. But in the third over of Shabnam, a wrong hock ended her stay, and from 29 to one, RCB to 57 for four.
However, a 50 -run partnership between Perry and Richa Ghosh (28, 25B, 3×4, 1×6) revived the RCB’s innings and the pair scored 105 runs from 105 to 20 overs.
Perry was solid on leg-side, was putting his leg and breaking everything in sight. A grand boundary on additional cover from Amelia Kerr, which he had killed to go to half a century, showed all his round batting capability. But even his best day could not be saved for RCB.
Published – February 22, 2025 03:33 AM IST
