WPL 2024/25, DC-W vs RCB-W 14th Match Match Preview

WPL 2024/25, DC-W vs RCB-W 14th Match Match Preview


Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) vs Delhi Capitals (DC)
M chinnaswamy stadium, bengaluru, 7.30pm ist

An enormous win towards Mumbai Indians (MI) was simply what DC wanted to shake off any tiredness going into the following sport. They are going to be going through a bruised RCB lower than 24 hours after their match towards MI, however can have loads to cheer about. Firstly, they’re on the high of the desk with eight factors from six video games. Their bowling within the final two video games, the place they’ve stored their opponents to sub-130 totals, has been fairly glorious. They’ve additionally been among the many finest fielding models this match, with the likes of Annabel Sutherland, Minnu Mani and Jemimah Rodrigues saving quite a lot of runs with their acrobatics on the sphere.

RCB have misplaced their final three video games at their residence venue, however the defeat within the sport towards Gujarat Giants – the place they had been restricted to 125 for 7 “affected” them probably the most, captain Smriti Mandhana stated after the sport. There are a number of questions for them heading into this conflict: is the batting too depending on Ellyse Perry? Are they lacking their spin trio of Asha Sobhana, Sophie Molineux and Shreyanka Patil, who had been their key bowlers on the Chinnaswamy final yr? Is Mandhana’s subpar type affecting them a bit an excessive amount of? RCB will wish to rapidly discover solutions and provides the house crowd one thing to cheer about for one final time this season earlier than shifting to the Lucknow leg.

Royal Challengers Bengaluru LLL (final three matches, most up-to-date first)
Delhi Capitals WWL

RCB made one change within the final sport, bringing again legspinner Prema Rawat for left-arm spinner Ekta Bisht. Rawat, nonetheless, bowled only one over within the sport and conceded 19 runs.

Royal Challengers Bengaluru (Possible XI): 1 Smriti Mandhana (Capt), 2 Danni Wyatt-Hodge, 3 Ellyse Perry, 4 Raghvi Bisht, 5 Richa Ghosh (WK), 6 Kanika Ahuja, 6 Kanika Ahuja, 7 Georgia Wareham, 8 Sneh Rana, 9 Kim GARTH, 10 Prema Rawat/ Ekta Bisht, 11 Renuka Singh

DC are more likely to stick with the successful mixture.

Delhi Capitals (possible XI): 1 On Tuesday, 2 Shafali Verma, 3 Jemiah Rodrigues, 4 Annabel Sutherland, 5 Marizanne Kapp, 6 Sarah Bryce (wk), 8 Niki Prasad,

Be it with the ball or as a fielder, By mani gave it her all within the sport towards MI. After bowling a quiet twelfth over, she dealt Mumbai a double jolt within the seventeenth, dismissing S Sajana and Amelia Kerr. She got here again to take away Sansriti Gupta within the nineteenth to complete with figures of three for 17 from three overs on a sluggish floor. Her flying one-handed cease to her proper to save lots of a boundary within the thirteenth over highlighted why she’s the most effective fielders going round within the circuit. She’s bowled solely 14 overs throughout 5 matches and has taken 5 wickets. DC will wish to make use of her bowling extra, permitting her to bowl her full quota which she’s achieved solely in two video games this season.

Georgia Wareham bounced again properly after conceding 50 runs within the first match of the season, selecting 9 wickets in 5 matches to this point. She picked two essential wickets towards Giants, eradicating Harleen Deol and top-scorer Ashleigh Gardner, though it was a bit too late. She has performed at No. 3 for Australia earlier than – even has a half-century taking part in within the place – and RCB might use her as a floater within the center order in case of early wickets.


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