WPL 2025: Shafali Verma Stars As Delhi Capitals Thrash RCB By 9 Wickets, Qualify For Playoffs
Shafali Verma smacked 80 not out as Delhi Capitals registered a commanding nine-wicket win over Royal Challengers Bengaluru to qualify for the Ladies’s Premier League knockouts Bengaluru on Saturday.
For defending champions RCB, this was their fourth consecutive defeat at their dwelling venue of M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru.
After Ellyse Perry’s fourth fifty (60 not out) of the season took RCB 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 high of the WPL desk with 10 factors from seven matches, thanks to 5 wins and two losses.
They grew to become the primary group to succeed in the playoffs. Delhi Capitals had, in actual fact, handed an identical thrashing to Mumbai Indians right here on Friday.
RCB, however, slipped to fourth place with solely two wins up to now in six matches.
Shafali continued to dazzle along 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 strain on RCB.
Earlier, Perry’s 47-ball 60 not out was essential for RCB because it guided them to 147 for 5.
Perry grew to become 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 grew to become 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 sturdy partnerships alongside the best way, 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.
