In the Women’s Premier League (WPL) 2024, Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) became champions for the first time after defeating Delhi Capitals by 8 wickets in the final match played at the Arun Jaitley Stadium on Sunday. The Smriti Mandhana-led team captured the trophy for the first time with this victory and also ended a 16-year title drought.
The Women’s Premier League 2024 final was played between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Delhi Capitals at the Arun Jaitley Stadium on Sunday. In which RCB achieved the target of 114 runs for victory by losing 2 wickets in 19.3 overs and won the Women’s Premier League (WPL) second phase title. At the same time, Delhi Capitals had to face defeat in the final for the second time in a row. Earlier, Meg Lanning-led Delhi Capitals lost to Mumbai Indians in the WPL 2023 final.
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In the Women’s Premier League 2024 final, RCB’s team was playing in the final for the first time in the tournament. Delhi Capitals won the toss and elected to bat first in the 2024 final and the openers also gave a bang during the powerplay. Early on, it looked like Delhi Capitals would set a big target on the scoreboard.
Delhi captain Meg Lanning and Shefali Verma took the team to 61 runs in just 6 overs. Young Indian opener Shefali Verma thrashed every bowler in Bangalore. But the team could not sustain its explosive start and the team lost 7 wickets for just 23 runs.
3 wickets of Delhi Capitals fell in a single over, which put the team on the back foot. After this, RCB gave Delhi no chance to recover, RCB’s off-spinner Shreyanka Patil took the most 4 wickets, Sophie Molyneux took 3 wickets and leg-spinner Asha Shobhana took 2 wickets. Delhi Capitals, who at one point were playing on 64 runs without losing any wicket, lost 7 wickets within 23 runs in the next moment.
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Shaifali Verma scored 44 runs and Meg Lanning scored 23 runs for Delhi, thanks to which RCB got a target of 114 runs. For RCB, Sophie Devine and Smriti Mandhana chased the target and gave the team a good start. Sophie Devine scored 32 runs and Smriti Mandhana played an innings of 31 runs. After this, Ellyse Perry played an unbeaten innings of 35 runs to win the team. In this way, RCB made 115 runs in 19.3 overs by losing two wickets and took possession of the glittering trophy.
