- BATSMENRBM4s6sSR5.2 Straight to Deol at deep midwicket! What a start this has been from Giants. This was also tossed up on off stump, Mandhana gets down on one knee and tries to ease the dot-ball pressure by heaving this towards leg side but finds a fielder near boundary line. RCB are three down inside the powerplay 25/30.5 Big appeal and the finger goes up! Wyatt-Hodge has a chat with Mandhana and decides to take the review. It's a yorker around leg stump, there is no bat involved as she misses a flick. Replays confirms it would have gone on to hit the leg stump on umpire's call. Wyatt-Hodge has to depart. An early breakthrough for Giants! 6/11.6 Perry is gone! Giants are ecstatic. Slightly short on the stumps, Perry goes deep and mistimes a pull towards square leg where Kanwar took a catch head high comfortably. RCB in some early trouble! Huge wicket for Giants in this context 16/211.3 and dropped next ball! But there could be a run out here. If you ever wanted to say "it's all happening here!" Bist miscues the ball off the back foot to cover where Gardner had to take it around chest height as it ballooned to her, but she probably lost it in the sky or lights. The batters decide to run across a bit late and by then Fulmali hits the stumps down at the bowler's end to find Bist well short. From agony to ecstasy in a second for Meghna 73/412.3 superb running catch taken by Tanuja Kanwar! Ahuja on the charge again, miscues the big hit down the ground and it's going to land just behind the pitch so Kanwar turns around and sprints for her life to slide at the last minute and get both hands under it 78/515.6 nails the yorker to get the big wicket and you the crowd has been silenced! That's as accurate a yorker as you'll see at the base of off stump and Ghosh tries to dig it out but can't jam her bat down properly. Kashvee roars and then takes a bow, and you can hear the traffic from outside Cubbon Park because nobody's speaking a word in the stands 99/619.4 caught behind off the scoop on the off side! Garth got in a position nicely to scoop that behind but the ball went off her bat on the off side where Mooney was ready to pouch with both hands 122/7Extras12 (lb 5, nb 2, w 5)TOTAL125/7 (20 Overs, RR: 6.25)Fall of wickets: 1-6 (Danni Wyatt-Hodge, 0.5 ov), 2-16 (Ellyse Perry, 1.6 ov), 3-25 (Smriti Mandhana, 5.2 ov), 4-73 (Raghvi Bist, 11.3 ov), 5-78 (Kanika Ahuja, 12.3 ov), 6-99 (Richa Ghosh, 15.6 ov), 7-122 (Kim Garth, 19.4 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ 0s 4s 6s WD NB DJS Dottin 4 0 31 2 7.75 9 2 1 3 0 A Gardner 4 0 22 1 5.5 11 1 1 1 0 KS Gautam 4 0 17 1 4.25 13 1 0 0 2 TP Kanwar 4 0 16 2 4 10 0 0 0 0 D Hemalatha 1 0 4 0 4 3 0 0 1 0 Priya Mishra 1 0 18 0 18 0 2 1 0 0 Meghna Singh 2 0 12 0 6 6 0 1 0 0
Player of the Match
Player of the Match
- BATSMENRBM4s6sSR6.2 Straight to Wareham! The decision to bowl Renuka Thakur out worked out well for Mandhana and RCB. Bowls fuller on middle and leg stump, Mooney looks to go big towards legside and ends up holing out to deep midwicket 32/24.6 Thakur strikes! Length ball again bowled wide of off stump, Hemalatha charges down the track for a wild swing but she is nowhere near the ball. Ghosh, who is up to stump, quickly collects the ball and removes the bails. Very very good glovework. Hemalatha sighs in disappointment. 25/19.4 Wareham strikes! Deol is completely deceived by flight. Tossed up on the stumps, she charges down the track to go big but does not get the connection right, ends up hitting it straight to Perry to mid-on 66/315.4 chipped back for a return catch! Gardner wants to get done with this soon, she comes down and presents the straight bat for the legbreak on middle, strikes it back just a bit uppishly and Wareham goes low in time for the catch 117/4Extras5 (b 1, w 4)TOTAL126/4 (16.3 Overs, RR: 7.63)Fall of wickets: 1-25 (Dayalan Hemalatha, 4.6 ov), 2-32 (Beth Mooney, 6.2 ov), 3-66 (Harleen Deol, 9.4 ov), 4-117 (Ashleigh Gardner, 15.4 ov)
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
27 February 2025 - night match (20-over match)
Umpires
TV Umpires
Reserve Umpire
Match Referee
Points
Gujarat Giants Women 2, Royal Challengers Bengaluru Women 0
Match Notes
- Powerplay 1: Overs 0.1 - 6.0 (Mandatory - 26 runs, 3 wickets)
- Over 0.5: Review by Royal Challengers Bengaluru Women (Batting), Decision Challenged - Wicket, Umpire - HAS Khalid, Batter - DN Wyatt (Struck down - Umpires Call)
- Strategic Timeout: Royal Challengers Bengaluru Women - 30/3 in 7.0 overs (Raghvi Bist 4, KS Ahuja 3)
- Royal Challengers Bengaluru Women: 50 runs in 8.2 overs (51 balls), Extras 9
- Strategic Timeout: Royal Challengers Bengaluru Women - 79/5 in 13.0 overs (RM Ghosh 0, G Wareham 1)
- Royal Challengers Bengaluru Women: 100 runs in 16.1 overs (99 balls), Extras 10
- Innings Break: Royal Challengers Bengaluru Women - 125/7 in 20.0 overs (G Wareham 20, S Rana 1)
- Powerplay 1: Overs 0.1 - 6.0 (Mandatory - 30 runs, 1 wicket)
- Gujarat Giants Women: 50 runs in 8.2 overs (50 balls), Extras 2
- Strategic Timeout: Gujarat Giants Women - 61/2 in 9.0 overs (H Deol 5, A Gardner 26)
- Gujarat Giants Women: 100 runs in 14.2 overs (86 balls), Extras 3
- A Gardner: 50 off 28 balls (6 x 4, 2 x 6)
- 4th Wicket: 50 runs in 34 balls (A Gardner 27, P Litchfield 23, Ex 1)
- Strategic Timeout: Gujarat Giants Women - 117/4 in 15.4 overs (P Litchfield 23)
- Attendance: 23,656
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