RCB-W vs UPW-W, Match Highlights: The 8th match of the first edition of the Women’s Premier League (WPL) was played between the team of Royal Challengers Women and UP Warriors at the Brabron Stadium in Mumbai. In this match, the UP Warriors saw a blistering performance with both the ball and the bat and registered their second win of the season by defeating the RCB women’s team by 10 wickets. Captain Alyssa Healy played a brilliant unbeaten innings of match-winning 96 runs for UP Warriors and played a key role in achieving the target in just 13 overs.
Royal Challengers Bangalore women’s team captain Smriti Mandhana decided to bat first after winning the toss in this match. Captain Mandhana and Sophie Devine, who started the innings for the team, saw a 29-run partnership for the first wicket, in which Captain Mandhana returned to the pavilion after scoring 4 runs in 6 balls.
At the same time, Sophie Devine and Ellyse Perry did not allow the team to suffer any further setbacks in the first 6 overs and took the score to 54 runs. At a time when it seemed that the RCB Women’s team was heading towards scoring a big score in the match, Sophie Devine returned to the pavilion after scoring 36 runs.
After this, where the RCB women’s team continued to lose wickets from one end, Alice Perry was seen trying to push the score from the other end. The RCB team did not even manage to play the full 20 overs and was reduced to scoring 138 runs in 19.2 overs. For the team, Alice Perry scored the highest innings of 52 runs in 39 balls.
Sophie Ecclestone was seen in the bowling for UP Warriors, who took 4 wickets for 13 runs in 3.3 overs. While Deepti Sharma took 3 wickets while Rajeshwari Gaikwad took 1 wicket.
The opening pair of Alyssa Healy and Devika Vaidya finished the match
Chasing the target of 139 runs, the team of UP Warriors worked to maintain their dominance over the bowlers of RCB women’s team from the very first ball. The opening pair of Captain Alyssa Healy and Devika Vaidya took the score to 55 runs in the first 6 overs itself.
After this, stopping both these batsmen seemed impossible for the bowlers of the RCB women’s team. Alyssa Healy continued to score runs at a steady pace from one end. In which he scored an unbeaten inning of 96 runs in 47 balls with the help of 18 fours and 1 six, while Devika Vaidya also played an unbeaten inning of 36 runs in 31 balls.
The team of UP Warriors achieved this target in just 13 overs and improved their net runrate significantly and is in third place on the points table with 4 points.
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