Royal Challengers Bangalore Create History: Richa Ghosh’s unbeaten 64 off 27 balls and Elisay Parry’s 34 balls with the help of 57 runs in 34 balls, defending champions Royal Challengers Bangalore defeated Gujarat giants by six wickets on Friday in the first match of the third season of the Women’s Premier League. The target of 202 runs for the victory, RCB achieved nine balls remaining. Richa hit seven fours and four sixes in her innings. At the same time, Parry hit six fours and two sixes. Finally Kanika Ahuja scored an unbeaten 30 off 13 balls. RCB made a big record of the league by successfully chasing this target. Let me tell you, Bengaluru has scored more than 200 for the first time in the history of the league.
RCB made a big record
RCB is the biggest successful goal in the history of the league by achieving the target of 202 runs from Gujarat. This is the second time in the history of women’s T20, when a team has successfully pursued a target of more than 200. In 2023, the West Indies targets 213 runs against Australia.
In Vadodara, Gujarat giants and RCB scored a total of 403 runs in Vadodara on Friday. This is the highest run in any match in the Women’s Premier League. Earlier in 2023, 391 runs were scored in the match between these two teams.
Ashley Gardner hit a total of 8 sixes during his innings. This is the most sixes in an innings by any batsman in WPL.
This is the match
The Women’s Premier League ‘WPL 2025’ started on Friday. Gujarat giants and last year champions Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) were face to face in the first match in Vadodara, Gujarat. RCB started with victory by defeating GG by six wickets thanks to Richa Ghosh and Kanika Anuja’s fast-paced innings.
Batting first after losing the toss, the Gujarat giant raised a mountain of 201 runs at the loss of five wickets in the prescribed 20 overs. RCB, chasing the target, got the first two shocks. After losing two wickets on a score of just 14 runs, Alice Perry scored an aggressive innings of 57 runs in 34 balls.
In the end, Richa Ghosh (67 on 27 balls) and Kanika Anuja (30 off 13 balls) won the team by winning an unbeaten 93 off 37 balls. Both of them washed all the bowlers of Gujarat fiercely. RCB won the match in 18.3 overs with nine balls remaining. Richa Ghosh hit seven fours and four sixes.
Ashley Gardner took two wickets for Gujarat. Sayali Satghde and Deendra Dotin got one wicket each. The innings was started by Beth Muni and Laura Volvard. Bath scored 56 runs off 42 balls with the help of eight fours. Captan Gardner scored a huge innings of 79 runs off 37 balls at number four. He hit three fours and eight sixes.
Renuka Singh took the highest two wickets from RCB. He showed two batsmen for the pavilion for a total of 25 runs in his four -over quota. Kanika Anuja, Georgia Wareham and Prema Rawat got one success each.
(With input from IANS)
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