Gujarat Giants VS Royal Challengers Bengaluru cricket T-20 match ended with Royal Challengers Winning the match by 8 Wickets in the Women’s Premier League. RCB Won the toss and decided to ball first in M. Chinnaswamy Stadium. Gujarat Giants Middle order failed miserably. Renuka Thakur took 2 wickets and Sophie Molineux picked three wickets.
Gujarat Giants scored 107/7 in 20 overs. Royal Challengers Bengaluru chased the target in 12.3 overs. Smriti Mandhana Scored 43 runs and Sabbhineni Meghana scored 36 runs for the team. With this win, RCB had 4 points in 2 matches and stands top of the WPL table. Gujarat Giants in the bottom of the table with 0 points in 2 matches.
Gujarat playing eleven
Harleen Deol, Beth Mooney(Wk, Captain), Phoebe Litchfield, Veda Krishnamurthy, Ashleigh Gardner, Dayalan Hemalatha, Kathryn Emma Bryce, Sneh Rana, Tanuja Kanwar, Lea Tahuhu, Meghna Singh
Royal Challengers Bengaluru playing eleven
Smriti Mandhana (Captain), Sophie Divine, Sabbhineni Meghana, Ellyse Perry, Richa Ghosh(Captain), Georgia Wareham, Sophie Molineux, Shreyanka Patil, Simran Bahadur, Sobhana Asha, Renuka Singh.
Gujarat Giants VS Royal Challengers Bengaluru: RCB Won by 8 wickets
Royal Challengers Bengaluru won the toss and elected to Bowl first. Harleen Deol and Beth Mooney came to bat for Gujarat Giants and Renuka Singh had a first over for RCB. In the 3rd over, Renuka Singh bowled a good length ball in the middle off stumps to Beth Mooney who looked to play across but the ball went through the gap between Pads and the bat and rattled the off Stumps. Beth Mooney scored 8 runs off 7 balls.
In the 7th over, Phoebe Litchfield was stumped out by Richa Ghosh and balled by Renuka Singh. Phoebe Litchfield scored 5 runs off 12 balls. On the 10th over, Sophie Molineux bowls Short and middle to Veda Krishnamurthy who goes to backfoot to play a pull shot but she does not connect with the ball properly and Georgia Wareham took an easy Catch. Veda Krishnamurthy Scored 9 runs off 15 balls.
In the 11th over Harleen Deol was run out by Sophie Molineux. Harleen Deol Scored 22 runs off 31 balls. In the 16th over, Georgia Wareham bowls a leg spinner on the stumps to Ashleigh Gardner who goes down the track to play a big shot but she misjudged the turn off the ball, and the ball made contact with the outer half of the bat and flies in the air and Smriti Mandhana took the catch at extra covers. Ashleigh Gardner scored 7 runs off 12 balls.
In the 17th over, Sophie Molineux bowled fuller fuller-length delivery to Kathryn Emma Bryce and she completely missed the ball and ball went through the gap between the pads and the bat and hit the wicket. Kathryn Emma Bryce scored 3 runs off 6 balls.
In the 19th Over, Sneha Rana was stumped by Richa Ghosh and balled by Sophie Molineux. Sneha Rana Scored 12 runs off 10 balls. Gujarat Giants Scored 107/7 in 20 overs. Dayalan Hemalatha scored not out 31 runs off 25 balls. Tanuja Kanwar scored not out 4 runs off 2 balls.
RCB Balling Stats-
| Overs | Maiden | Runs | Wicket | Economy | |
| Renuka Singh | 4 | 0 | 14 | 2 | 3.50 |
| Sophie Divine | 4 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 3.00 |
| Shreyanka Patil | 1 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 13.00 |
| Ellyse Perry | 1 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 8.00 |
| Sophie Molineux | 4 | 0 | 25 | 3 | 6.25 |
| Sobhana Asha | 3 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 4.33 |
| Georgia Wareham | 3 | 0 | 20 | 1 | 6.67 |
Smriti Mandhana and Sophie Divine came to bat for Royal Challengers Bengaluru and Lea Tahuhu had a first over for Gujarat Giants. Smriti Mandhana and Sophie Divine had a 32-run partnership for the first wicket. In the 4th over, Ashleigh Gardner Shorter’s length ball to Sophie Divine goes for a pull shot but she mistimed the shot and Meghna Singh took the catch at Square leg. Sophie Divine scored 6 runs off 6 balls.
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In the 9th over, Tanuja Kanwar bowls full, and in the middle to Smriti Mandhana who came in front to push the ball but the ball holds up on the Surface and she hits straight to the bowler and Tanuja Kanwar Grabs it. Smriti Mandhana scored 43 runs off 27 balls.
Sabbhineni Meghana and Ellyse Perry chased the target with ease. , Ellyse Perry scored not out 23 runs off 14 balls and Sabbhineni Meghana scored 36 runs off 28 balls. Royal Challengers Bengaluru scored 110/2 in 12.3 overs.
Balling Stats of Gujarat Giants-
| Overs | Maiden | Run | Wickets | Economy | |
| Lea Tahuhu | 2 | 0 | 21 | 0 | 10.50 |
| Kathryn Emma Bryce | 2 | 0 | 17 | 0 | 8.50 |
| Meghna Singh | 2 | 0 | 17 | 0 | 8.50 |
| Ashleigh Gardner | 3 | 0 | 15 | 1 | 5.00 |
| Sneha Rana | 1.3 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 12.00 |
| Tanuja Kanwar | 2 | 0 | 20 | 1 | 10.00 |