Ellyse Perry’s brilliance has powered the Royal Challengers Bangalore into the playoffs of the Ladies’s Premier League 2024 with a surprising win over Mumbai Indians within the nineteenth match of the event. Within the essential conflict performed on the Arun Jaitley Stadium, RCB defeated the defending champions by 7 wickets after chasing 114 with 5 overs left.
With this not solely RCB have confirmed a spot within the playoffs however UP Warriorz and Gujarat Giants have been knocked out formally. All three groups for the knockouts have been confirmed because the Bangalore facet grew to become the ultimate workforce to earn the ticket for the playoffs. Delhi Capitals and Mumbai Indians have already booked their locations within the knockouts.
It was a particular present by Ellyse Perry, the Aussie all-rounder was throughout Mumbai with the ball after which made 40 runs with the bat to be adjudged because the Participant of the Match. She displayed good expertise on seam bowling with venomous deliveries nipping again in and proving to be a nightmare for the batters. She registered one of the best bowling figures within the historical past of WPL as she took a six-wicket haul.
Perry then performed a robust hand with the bat as nicely. RCB had a meagre goal of 114 forward of them. Smriti Mandhana and Sophie Molineux began issues off. Molineux was dropped by Nat-Sciver Brunt within the third over of the sport however was eliminated by Hayley Matthews stumped out. Nat-Sciver acquired Mandhana after which Shabnim Ismail cleaned up Sophie Devine to ship them in some bother.
Nevertheless, Perry and Richa Ghosh stabilised issues. Ghosh supplied a easy probability to Nat-Sciver early in her innings however the England star had a horrible day on the subject as she couldn’t maintain on to it at mid-wicket.
That was probably the final probability as Richa then introduced out her greatest, hitting Amelia Kerr and Nat-Sciver for boundaries. She seemed in a rush because the wicket-keeper batter amassed completed issues within the fifteenth over itself, smashing 15 runs off Vastrakar and taking the facet to the win.
Delhi are nearly by way of to the finals as they’re on first place and have a robust Internet run price. However that might change in the event that they lose method too massive within the closing league stage match of the event between Delhi and Gujarat Giants. MI have 10 factors from 8 video games and an NRR of 0.02, whereas DC have 10 factors from 7 video games and a robust NRR of 0.92.
