Smriti Mandhana and Co. started their Women’s Premier League on a wrong note as they suffered a crushing 60-run defeat in their opening match against Delhi Capitals at Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai. It was a forgettable outing from RCB, especially their bowlers who were hammered by Delhi Capitals’ top 4 as they posted a mammoth 223/2 on the scoreboard after 20 overs when Mandhana asked them to bat first.
Shafali Verma and Meg Lanning slammed the RCB bowlers all around the park in their massive 162-run stand as the Bangalore were stunned by some scintillating shots from the DC openers.
WPL 2023: RCB v DC – Highlights
Heather Knight turned out to be the lone wicket-taker for RCB with two scalps.
Meanwhile, Marizzane Kapp and Jemimah Rodrigues gave the perfect finish to Delhi by hitting six fours and three sixes in the last five overs as the crowd was treated to an amazing batting performance from Delhi.
In reply, RCB kept losing at regular wickets despite a solid start from Smriti Mandhana and Sophie Devine as Delhi Capitals gave them no chance to bounce back in the game.
American left-arm pace bowler Tara Norris ran riot with the ball by grabbing a fifer for DC to decimate the Mandhana-led team. She dismantled the RCB middle-order on her own to help DC register a convincing win.
The cricket fans on Twitter trolled RCB after their poor start to their campaign as the women’s team instantly started getting compared to the men’s team who have never lifted an IPL trophy since the inception of the league.
#RCB fans to themselves for choosing haarcb #WPL pic.twitter.com/9KmbRURtcl— Captain Sukhveer Punia (@IMsukhveer45) March 5, 2023
HaarCB be like :- pic.twitter.com/guSu7o5ypQ— Om Akolkar (@akolkar_omm) March 5, 2023
Hello haarcb fansHaarcb legacy continue #ShefaliVarma#WPL2023#SmritiMandhana#WPL2023 pic.twitter.com/OMdXbBAuRx— pk bishnoi (@Bishnoi45pk) March 5, 2023
HaaRCB for a reason https://t.co/wZCocD1wlD pic.twitter.com/gRKnh89tWN— Politics N Cricket (@rs_3702) March 5, 2023
Meanwhile, captain Mandhana rued the starts which the batters didn’t get and pace bowling department not giving the desired control.
“Definitely not the start we wanted. We gave 20-30 runs extra. We’ll think about our plans and come back stronger tomorrow. As a pace bowling unit, we didn’t go pace off like Delhi did so that’s one thing we need to think of and work on.”
“We are used to playing in other franchises back-to-back but for us to take positives out of this and things that didn’t go our way, we have a few hours to think about it and come back stronger tomorrow. I don’t think the pitch or wicket changed. Our batters, we all got starts but couldn’t continue. Batters got starts like me and Heather but we couldn’t take it over.”
Bangalore will be up against Mumbai Indians on Monday at Brabourne Stadium, the venue where they lost to Delhi on Sunday.
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