UPW-W vs DC-W, Full Match Highlights: The last league match of the first edition of the Women’s Premier League (WPL) proved to be very important in many ways. The team of Delhi Capitals has entered the final directly after winning by 5 wickets against UP Warriors. With this victory, Delhi Capitals and Mumbai Indians women have got 12 points on the points table, but on the basis of better net runrate, Delhi Capitals women’s team managed to take the first place.
In this match, the Delhi Capitals team got a target of 139 runs, which they achieved at the loss of 5 wickets in 17.5 overs. The opening pair of Captain Meg Lanning and Shefali Verma shared a quick 56-run partnership for the first wicket, giving the team a great start. After this, Shefali returned to the pavilion after scoring 21 runs while captain Lanning scored 39 runs, while Jemima could also manage to score only 3 runs.
After losing 3 wickets at a score of 70, the innings of Delhi Capitals was handled by Marijane Cape and Alice Kepsey to take them towards the target. There was a great partnership of 60 runs for the fourth wicket between the two. A brilliant innings of 34-34 runs was seen with the bat of Alice Kepsey and Marijane Cape. In bowling from UP, Shabnim Ismail took 2 wickets.
Alice Kepsy and Radha Yadav showed amazing in bowling
Delhi Capitals team captain Meg Lanning decided to bowl first after winning the toss in this match. Captain Alyssa Healy and Shweta Sehrawat, who started the innings for UP, saw a 30-run partnership for the first wicket. In the first 6 overs, the UP team could manage to score only 38 runs.
After losing the wicket of Captain Healy at the score of 63, the UP team kept losing wickets at frequent intervals, due to which the team could not succeed in scoring big. Tahlia McGrath definitely played an unbeaten inning of 58 runs in 32 balls, due to which the team was able to reach the score of 138 for the loss of 6 wickets in 20 overs. Alice Kepsey took 3 wickets while Radha Yadav took 2 wickets in Delhi bowling.
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