WPL 2024: Delhi Capitals win Humdinger, top spot despite Richa Ghosh’s heroics | Cricket News

Richa Ghosh hit two monstrous sixes but paid the price for her poor fitness as Delhi Capitals found themselves alone in the Women’s Super League on Sunday The suspense was won by fighting hard to beat the Royal Challengers. Needing 17 runs in the final over to reach the target of 182, Richa smashed 51 off 29 balls, hitting left-arm spinner Jess Jonassen for a straight six off 78 metres. , and again got maximum runs off the penultimate delivery, reducing the equation to two runs for the final delivery.

However, despite the power of her batting, Richa is not the best known among Indian cricketers and she was not fast enough to beat Jonathan, who bowled the ball quickly to restrict RCB to 7 runs. 180 shots.

DC picked up their fifth win and currently have 10 points, leading the points table thanks to a better net run rate (+0.918) than Mumbai Indians (+.343).

Needing 28 runs in the last two overs, Shikha Pandey conceded a few boundaries but removed Georgia Wareham, leaving left-arm spinner Jonassen in the final over Defended 17 points.

Earlier, Jemimah Rodrigues showed her complete command of slow bowlers with a half-century off 26 balls to propel Delhi Capitals to 181 for 5 in 20 overs. However, young off-spinner Shreyanka Patil took 4 for 26 in her four overs and had a brilliant performance at the end of DC’s innings to prevent the home team from scoring.

In front of a raucous festival crowd, Rodriguez showcased sweeps, slices, pulls and exquisite inside-out lobs in the cabinet, scoring 58 runs off 34 balls, ahead of Alice Capsi (48 off 32 balls), he used the long handle to good effect in tough matches.

Shafali Verma (23 off 18 balls) and Meg Lanning (29 off 26 balls) put up 54 runs in the opening over but they were dismissed soon after.

Rodriguez, who is not known for her power-hitting, relied on her solid touch, impeccable timing and deft placement to score eight fours and a six.

The biggest leg-breaker, Georgia Wareham, was hammered hard at extra cover to score her fifty.

Her best shot, however, was the inside-out loft, which was sent to the long outside-out boundary. She found a capable ally in Capsi, who initially let the Indians take more hits and then upped the ante in the death overs.

Spinner Asha Shobhana was seen coming down the track and trying to hit the ball wide off but the Southern Stars batsmen used her big arm strength to knock her down at extra cover Down.

Rodriguez should have scored more but was hit on the leg when she tried to convert Shreyanka’s full toss off spinner into an over-delivery for a paddle sweep.

Kapusi, who also hit eight boundaries, continued to look for a gap before Shreyanka, the opposition’s best bowler, bowled brilliantly in the last few overs to concede just nine runs. Take control of Washington, DC.

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