Royal Challengers Bangalore Women vs Gujarat Giants WPL 2023 Match Report and Highlights: With this win, Royal Challengers Bangalore have kept alive their hopes of reaching the playoffs.
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Mumbai: Royal Challengers Bangalore had a slow start to the Women’s Premier League but the team picked up the pace in the last minute and in a big match, its star batsman Sophie Devine made the biggest score of the tournament while blowing the bowlers. On this basis, RCB defeated Gujarat Giants by 8 wickets in an explosive manner. Struggling to stay in the race for the playoffs, RCB won the difficult target of 188 runs from Gujarat with 27 balls in advance on the basis of Devine’s amazing innings.
Thousands of cricket fans present at the Brabourne Stadium enjoyed tremendous power hitting on Saturday evening. Sophie Devine’s bat ignited such a fire that even the target of 188 runs was dwarfed. She missed just one run before her century, but even in this she laid the foundation for her team’s big win, due to which Bangalore’s hopes of going to the playoffs are not completely broken.
Make that TWO wins in a row for @RCBTweets
A special chase and an emphatic victory 👏👏
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— Women’s Premier League (WPL) (@wplt20) Mar 18, 2023
- Gujarat started strongly in this match and the opening pair of Sophia Dunkley and Laura Woolfart scored runs. Sophie Devine contributed with the ball before wreaking havoc with the bat and provided some relief by bowling Dunkley.
- After that, Laura Woolfart first added 63 runs with Sabbineni Meghna and then added 52 runs with Ashley Gardner, further increasing the pace of runs. Woolfart was dismissed after scoring his second consecutive half-century (68 runs, 42 balls).
- Gardner once again batted fast and scored 41 runs in just 26 balls to take the team to a big score. In the last over, Dayalan Hemlata (16 runs, 6 balls) and Harleen Deol (12 runs, 5 balls) shared an unbeaten 27-run partnership in 9 balls.
