Bengaluru: Captain Meg Lanning’s fifty and a crafty spell of left-arm spin by Jess Jonassen drove Delhi Capitals to a slick 25-run victory over Gujarat Giants of their Girls’s Premier League match right here on Sunday.
Lanning (55, 41b, 6×4, 1×6) was Capitals’ guiding pressure to an enough 163 for eight regardless of a late flurry of wickets.
The Giants’ chase by no means grew wings, ending up with 138 for eight regardless of Ashleigh Gardner’s well-timed 40 off 31 balls as they crashed to their fourth defeat on the bounce.
Jonassen led Capitals’ bowling with a shrewd spell (3/22) and he or she acquired superb help from Radha Yadav (3/20). The win additionally propelled Delhi to the highest of the desk with six factors.
The Gujarat aspect made a shaky begin, conceding a maiden within the very first over to WPL debutant pacer Titas Sadhu.
Their starting was additional marred when skilled pacer Shikha Pandey castled Laura Wolvaardt with a supply that formed in that tiny bit to beat her swat.
However the Giants too discovered some circulate as captain Beth Mooney and Phoebe Litchfield mixed to smash 15 runs within the fourth over bowled by Pandey.
Nonetheless, it was simply an remoted spark because the Giants stumbled towards Jonassen. Within the fifth over, the Australian spinner jettisoned Mooney and Litchfield within the area of 4 balls to scale back Giants to 34 for 3.
Gardner displayed her energy whereas hammering pacer Annabel Sutherland for 2 fours and a six within the twelfth over to make a complete of 16 runs.
It may need given a tinge of hope to the Giants however Jonassen snuffed that out when she had Gardner stumped by Taniya Bhatia.
Earlier than that Yadav bagged the essential wickets of Veda Krishnamoorthy and Kathryn Bryce as Gujarat struggled to sew collectively any significant partnership.
Earlier, Lanning used her expertise to tempo her innings nicely and construct a few good partnerships after Giants opted to discipline first.
Shafali Verma (13, 9b), as standard, flew off the traps with a six and 4 off left-arm spinner Tanuja Kanwar however her cameo got here to an finish very quickly.
Verma’s uppish flick of pacer Meghana Singh, probably the most profitable Gujarat bowler with a four-wicket haul, went straight to Wolvaardt close to backward sq. leg.
The dismissal introduced Lanning, who was dropped on 30, and in-form Alice Capsey collectively. They scored 38 runs for the second wicket, serving to Delhi to succeed in 51 for 1 within the Energy Play section.
As soon as Capsey departed, an edgy Jemimah Rodrigues (7 off 10) helped Lanning add 47 runs for the third wicket. Lanning shed her low-gear strategy throughout this passage to tug some prime pictures out of the draw comparable to an enormous hit for six over long-off off Kathryn Bryce.
Lanning reached her fifty in 39 balls however couldn’t keep within the center for lengthy as her slash off Meghana settled within the arms of D Hemalatha at cowl level.
The return of Lanning to the dug-out dashed Delhi’s try and up the scoring price as they misplaced wickets at common intervals and in addition didn’t fetch a boundary for twenty-four balls between 15.2 and 19.3 overs.
However by then that they had put sufficient runs on the board.
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