A superior fielding effort and sheer resilience noticed residence facet Delhi Capitals seal a heart-stopping one-run win towards Royal Challengers Bangalore on the Arun Jaitley Stadium right here on Sunday.
Needing 182 to win, RCB misplaced skipper Smriti Mandhana early. Ellyse Perry and Sophie Molineux’s 80-run stand consolidated the chase. A dramatic eleventh over noticed Alice Capsey first drop Perry at lengthy off. Shikha Pandey and Taniya Bhatia made positive Capsey and DC didn’t pay a heavy worth, working out the Aussie allrounder off the final ball of the identical over.
After Arundhati Reddy dismissed Molineux, the onus fell on Sophie Devine and Richa Ghosh’s shoulders. With 40 wanted off the final 18, Marizanne Kapp dismissed Devine off the primary ball of the 18th. It boiled right down to Richa with 17 wanted off the final over.
Richa creamed the ball over Jess Jonassen’s head for six. Disha Kasat was run out with no contribution to the scoreboard of the subsequent. After a nervy couple of runs, Richa bought the utmost over the longest facet of boundary to convey up her fifty.
ALSO READ: Don’t go silent into that good evening, Harmanpreet
With two runs wanted off the final ball, Jonassen went full with Richa simply managing to get the ball to backward level. Some sharp work from Jonassen noticed her first smash the stumps on the non-strikers and do the identical on the different finish. The overview confirmed Richa effectively wanting the crease, sending DC into the playoffs.
Richa was inconsolable on the finish of all of it, with Meg Lanning, Jemimah Rodrigues and others going as much as consolation her. “This may sting however the solar will rise tomorrow and she or he’ll recover from it,” Perry mentioned after the sport.
Earlier, Lanning opted to bat with the Capitals beginning cautiously. With the openers falling quickly after the PowerPlay, Alice Capsey and Jemimah took over the baton irritating the RCB bowlers no finish, stitching a 97-run partnership which in the end helped the facet put up a aggressive whole.
No whole is protected on the Kotla but when there was a crew to defend one when the chasing facet was going hammer and tongs, it was a fielding facet as relentless because the Capitals.