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Statistics

Best performances - Batsmen

MM Lanning
92(57) 15x4 - 1x6
Control %80%
  • Productive Shot
  • cover drive
  • 28 runs
  • 5x4 - 1x6
5 8 3 19 23 12 3 19
H Deol
H Deol
70(49) 9x4 - 1x6
Control %76%
  • Productive Shot
  • off drive
  • 15 runs
  • 2x4 - 1x6
4 4 5 14 3 16 8 16

Best performances - Bowlers

Meghna Singh
Meghna Singh
O4
M0
R35
W3
Eco8.75
RHB
OFFLEG
1W
1W
1W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
S Pandey
O4
M0
R31
W2
Eco7.75
RHB
OFFLEG
1W
1W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF

Match Details

Toss

Gujarat Giants Women , elected to field first

Player Of The Match

Season

Hours of play (local time)

19.30 start, First Session 19.30-21.00, Interval 21.00-21.20, Second Session 21.20-22.50

Match days

07 March 2025 - night match (20-over match)

TV Umpires

Reserve Umpire

Match Referee

Points

Gujarat Giants Women 2, Delhi Capitals Women 0

Scorer: M Venkat Raghav | Commentator: Shashwat Kumar

11:17pm That will be a wrap from us for tonight. We hope you enjoyed our coverage and tomorrow, we will be back with more WPL action as the UP Warriorz look to knock out the defending champions. Until then, this is me (Shashwat) signing off on behalf of Venkat Raghav and everyone else at ESPNcricinfo. Goodnight and take care!

Harleen Deol, Player of the Match: After winning the game, you feel very pleased after scoring runs for the team. When I was batting, the ball was not coming nicely onto the bat, so was just trying to play till the end. I knew we had batters to come, and they did what they had to do at that time. (Partnership and running between the wickets with Mooney) When you are batting with her, you just have to hit it and run. She closes her eyes and sprints for the run, so it is easier with her. When she hits boundaries, she also gets singles, so you keep getting the strike (smiles). When Kashvee came in, I knew she is good at hitting sixes. I told her that Shikha di would bowl at the stumps and that the ball was keeping low, so to just close her eyes and hit straight, and she will hit a six. When you are scoring runs and the team is winning, that is what you dream as a player. Just want to contribute to the team, whether it be while batting, bowling or fielding.

Ashleigh Gardner, Gujarat Giants captain: Delhi were probably on for 200 after the powerplay, did a good job to peg them back. 180 we felt was probably a par score. Felt that if we gave ourselves a chance, built partnerships, we had a chance (to chase it down). Different people stood up today. Meghna for example. She has not had the overs she would have wanted. So pleased for her, she has put in a lot of hard work and to see that happen in the field, that is pleasing to see. TK (Tanuja Kanwar) also, does not let them (the batters) score easily, and Deandra as well. There are still things to work on. (On not bowling herself at the death) I don't think off-spin was the right match-up to the righties. Tonight, people stood up at different points and those bowling at the death did a good job, so I was not needed. (On Deol) She has played some different roles throughout the tournament and she has adapted, which is nice to see. She struck the ball beautifully, hit to different areas and to see her take the bowlers on and play positive cricket was awesome to see.

11:01pm This result means that the UP Warriorz are now out of contention. It also puts the defending champions RCB in a tough spot, who now need to win both of their remaining games and need to overhaul the Giants or the Mumbai Indians on NRR.

Meg Lanning, Delhi Capitals captain: That is how this tournament goes. We knew it was going to be a difficult game. Full credit to Gujarat, they put us under pressure and were too good in the end. We lost wickets throughout the innings and that stalled us. We felt it was going to get better and we felt we were 15-20 short (of where we wanted to be). It was nice to contribute tonight, but would have loved to get the win. Some really good stuff (from the team) and we now look forward to the playoffs. It is going to play a really crucial part in the tournament. The effort was there tonight. Just about doing the basics as often as you can. We have a few days to reset and see how the rest of the tournament unfolds, which looks like it will be exciting. No, not at all. We have to play two great games, that is what we are looking forward to. About putting our best foot forward. Exciting competition that is still pretty open and we will see who we come up against.

Deandra Dottin: I was really confident. Once I stepped out on the field, I knew the pressure was on DC. Just a matter of taking advantage of being on top and knowing what they were actually going to bowl. I knew Jess was going to slow down her pace and Shikha was going to bowl cross-seam. I played a bit too early but I would have gone for it (the shot that got her out) again. We have played superb. The girls are training hard and are hungry. We continue to play fearless cricket and just be confident and positive.

10:55pm Wow. A proper rollercoaster of a game. Until the very end, it was tough to pinpoint who would triumph, but when push came to shove, the Giants just had enough firepower to blow the Capitals out of the water. They won by five wickets and throughout their chase, their batting riches came through, which could yet be crucial as they prepare for potentially their maiden playoff appearance.

Deol was front and centre of this remarkable run-chase, with Mooney, Gardner and Dottin all doing their bit. Gautam was not shabby either when thrown into the deep end at the death, and these performances will give the Giants confidence that they can take down any opposition in the WPL, even when the stakes are at its crest.

The Capitals, who have already qualified, will feel they missed out on rubber-stamping a spot in the final. They had their moments, especially with six overs left but could not close out the game as clinically as they usually do. Pandey was perhaps the pick of their bowlers, and they will want to use this game as a learning curve for the challenges that lie ahead.

19.3
2
Jonassen to Gautam, 2 runs, a misfield on the fence, and the Gujarat Giants have risen from their ruins! From being bottom of the pile in 2023 and in 2024, they are now within touching distance of the playoffs! And by doing so, they have crashed the Capital's party and may have consigned them to a spot in the Eliminator! This is zipped in full on the stumps. Gautam powers it down to long on, where Sutherland, of all people, fumbles. Deol is quick to spot it and charges back for the second. Smiles, handshakes and shrieks of delight in the GG dugout. They had a mountain to climb before the second innings, and they have scaled that peak with room to spare in the end. Spare a thought for the Capitals as well. They seemed to be in control until, suddenly, they weren't and they now have to endure a nervous wait to see if they have gone through to the final for the third season running or if they will have to win two in a row to claim the ultimate prize!

Just two more needed. Jonassen stays over the wicket

19.2
1
Jonassen to Deol, 1 run, slowed up on a full length on off. Deol gets down on one knee and heaves it towards deep mid wicket for a single
19.1
4
Jonassen to Deol, FOUR, serious whippage and Rodrigues cannot do anything about it on the fence! Fired in full on leg stump. Deol waltzes down the track and whips it towards deep mid wicket. Too hot to handle on the fence and the Giants can feel it now!

GG only need seven off the final over and DC can have only three outside the ring because of an over-rate penalty. Jonassen to bowl, from over the wicket and she is on a hat-trick

END OF OVER:
19 | 9 Runs | GG-W: 171/5 (7 runs required from 6 balls, RR: 9.00, RRR: 7.00)

  • Kashvee Gautam7 (2b)
  • Harleen Deol65 (47b)
  • Shikha Pandey4-0-31-2
  • Jess Jonassen3-0-31-2
18.6
6
Pandey to Gautam, SIX, Kashvee Gautam, take a bow! Over the ropes and this game swings again! Length ball outside off. Gautam sits deep in her crease, winds up and smears it over the wide long on fence. Just over the fence, but that will do for now. That will do superbly!
18.5
1
Pandey to Deol, 1 run, goes straight up but it lands safe! Zipped in full on the stumps. Deol tries to tonk it into tomorrow and miscues it completely. Miscued so badly that it does not even carry to deep mid wicket
18.4
0
Pandey to Deol, no run, length ball hung up wide outside off, perhaps as a riposte to Deol advancing. She has to reach out for it and can only shank it back to the bowler

GG Women 2nd innings Partnerships

WktRunsPlayers
1st4BL MooneyD Hemalatha
2nd85BL MooneyH Deol
3rd39A GardnerH Deol
4th34DJS DottinH Deol
5th0H DeolP Litchfield
6th16H DeolKS Gautam