Shafali Verma smacked 80 not out as Delhi Capitals handed a fourth consecutive defeat to Royal Challengers Bengaluru with a commanding nine-wicket win of their Girls’s Premier League contest right here on Saturday. After Ellyse Perry’s fourth fifty (60 not out) of the season took the defending champions to a aggressive 147/5, DC batters Shafali (80 not out) and Jess Jonassen (61 not out) brushed apart the problem with out a lot ado.
Chasing 148 to win, DC prevailed with 9 wickets in hand and 4.5 overs to spare, consolidating their place on the prime of the WPL factors desk with 10 factors from seven video games, together with 5 wins and two losses.
Delhi Capitals had, in reality, handed an analogous thrashing to Mumbai Indians right here on Friday.
RCB, then again, slipped to fourth place with solely two wins thus far in six matches.
The defeat for the Smriti Mandhana-led facet was additionally third in a row for RCB on their dwelling floor right here on the M Chinnaswamy Stadium.
Shafali continued to dazzle together with her stroke play to make 80 not out off solely 43 balls with 4 sixes and eight fours for her first half-century of the season after falling in 40s thrice within the event.
She produced a cracking hit for a six over cowl off Georgia Wareham within the thirteenth over to finish her fifty off 30 balls.
However, Australia veteran Jonassen produced her second fifty of the season, smacking 9 fours and one six to make 61 off solely 38 balls to pile up additional stress on RCB.
Earlier, Perry’s 47-ball 60 not out was essential for RCB because it guided them to 147 for 5.
Perry not solely turned the main run-scorer within the third version of the WPL but in addition the competitors’s all-time highest run-getter with 895 runs in 23 matches at 63.92, going previous Meg Lanning (847 runs in 25 matches).
With this knock, the Australian stalwart additionally turned the main run-scorer on this 12 months’s WPL with 295 runs in six matches at 98.33.
Perry dropped anchor to assist RCB recuperate from an early blow within the type of skipper Smriti Mandhana (8) and hit her fourth fifty of the season, scoring 60 from 47 balls with three sixes and as many fours.
Perry additionally cast robust partnerships alongside the way in which, including 44 runs with England’s Danni Wyatt-Hodge (21) for the second wicket and one other 68 runs with India’s Raghvi Bisht (33) to consolidate the RCB innings.
Whereas Wyatt-Hodge struck one six and two fours to make 21 off 18 balls, Bisht had a profitable outing as she made 33 from 32 balls with two sixes.
For Delhi Capitals, India’s Shikha Pandey returned 4-0-28-2, whereas the uncapped Nallapureddy Charani claimed 4-0-28-2. Marizanne Kapp was as soon as once more spectacular with the brand new ball, returning 4-0-18-1 for one more measly spell.
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