WPL 2024: Smriti Mandhana, Ellyse Perry script win for Royal Challengers Bangalore over UP Warriorz

The Royal Challengers Bangalore ended their home-leg of the Women’s Premier League 2024 season with a comfortable 23-run win over the UP Warriorz on Monday at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru.

The Royal Challengers Bangalore, or RCB, put up a strong total of 198/3 in the first innings before restricting the Warriorz to 175/8 at the end of 20 overs.

The win for the hosts ended the Bangalore team’s run of two consecutive losses while also ending the Warriorz’s run of two successive wins.

Central to RCB’s, win on Monday was the impressive hitting by their captain Smriti Mandhana and Ellyse Perry in the first innings – both scoring half-centuries in their knocks.

Alyssa Healy won the toss for the Warriorz and decided to bowl first.

Mandhana and S Meghana got off to a quick start, racing to a 50-run partnership in the sixth over before the latter was dismissed for 28 off 21. Perry then came out to the middle to join the captain, as the duo put on a devastating 95-run partnership off 64 deliveries.

A few sloppy moments in the field handed Mandhana two reprieves. Chamari Athapaththu lost sight of the ball in a shot Mandhana skied. But the Sri Lankan captain eventually put in an insufficient one-handed effort for...

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