Ex-India Star Backs This Franchise As Title Winners Of WPL 2025 | Cricket Information

Former India males’s cricketer Aakash Chopra believes the Delhi Capitals’ are one of many favourites to win WPL 2025, saying that regardless of the trophy eluding them twice, their consistency in taking part in will make them go one step additional this time. DC have been table-toppers in league levels of WPL 2023 and 2024, however have ended up runners-up on each events, together with at their house floor Arun Jaitley Stadium. DC will open their WPL 2025 marketing campaign in opposition to Mumbai Indians in Vadodara on February 15.

“Success is at all times outlined by trophies, however within the first two seasons of the TATA WPL, Delhi Capitals have actually stood out with their type of play and consistency. I do know they have not received a title but, however they got here very shut final season. Given their performances, they are going to positively be one of many favourites this 12 months as nicely,” stated Chopra on Disney Hotstar on Monday.

DC’s opening pair will as soon as once more be captain Meg Lanning and younger Shafali Verma, however Chopra sounded not too optimistic about them clicking as a pair in WPL 2025. Meg has performed cricket sporadically since her worldwide retirement, whereas Shafali has been out of the Indian workforce set-up after a poor ODI collection in opposition to New Zealand final 12 months.

It meant Shafali was again to taking part in home cricket, and completed because the main run-getter within the Senior Ladies’s One-Day Challenger Trophy, amassing 414 runs in 5 matches at a median of 82.80 and a strike charge of 145.26, together with hitting 100 and three fifties.

She was additionally the best run-scorer in Senior Ladies’s One Day Trophy by way of 527 runs at a median of 75.29 and a strike-rate of 152.31. “Since Meg Lanning’s retirement from worldwide cricket, she hasn’t been in her greatest type. In the meantime, Shafali Verma has additionally misplaced her spot within the Indian squad.”

“Neither of them has been scoring runs constantly, however I am desirous to see how they carry out in Season 3 of the WPL. One factor is definite—it is going to be each difficult and thrilling,” concluded Chopra.

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