The second year of WPL retains on getting better as it went into a further previous-ball thriller at the eliminator, on Friday, when Royal challengers Bangalore knocked out Mumbai Indians at the packed Arun Jaitley Stadium to e-book a place in the closing for the 1st time.
Explosive Aussie all-rounder Ellyse Perry was the player of the match after her miraculous inning of 66 runs and a vital wicket of MI opener Yastika Bhatia.
The openers Smriti Mandhana and Sophie Divine entered the stadium with an attacking intent creating 14 operates in the to start with about of Shabman Ismail to set the pace but Mumbai manufactured a rapid comeback to consider 3 wickets in a brief period and utilized breaks to their innings.
Then came Perry, and tried using to steadied the RCB innings. She continued her solidification, observing her partners leaving one after a single, and then did a late prosper in the end with some help from Ga Wareham to submit a good whole of 135-6 in 20 overs.
Perry is now also foremost the race for the Orange Cap with 312 operates in 8 matches.
Mumbai Indians started off their innings incredibly easily and reached the location of 50 for 1 in just 7.5 overs but then Ellyse Perry yet again arrived in to rescue the team and bamboozled the sumps of opener Yastika Bhatia to set some doubts in the MI camp.
MI promptly recovered from this setback after a 50+ partnership amongst captain Harmanpreet Kaur and Amelia Kerr. They were searching comfortable to e book their back-to-back last ticket with just 20 operates needed and two set batters on the crease.
In the 18th more than, Smriti took a gamble and asked Shreyanka Patil to come again on the bowling mark instead of seasoned rapidly bowler Renuka Singh and the final decision proved decisive as she took a critical wicket of Harman and just conceded 4 runs.
Sophie Molineux repeated Patil in the 19th more than with 4 operates and a wicket and now all goes down to the final over of Asha Sobhana.
An Indian domestic bowler puzzled the two skilled worldwide stars, Amelia Kerr and Pooja Vastrakar to protect 12 operates in the final above and surprised the defending champions by just 5 runs to give her group a position in the last.
1️⃣st ever finals for RCB!
Ellyse Perry and Shreyanka Patil’s heroics carry Royal Challengers Bangalore to their 1st Women’s Leading League final 😍
They consider on Delhi Capitals on Sunday. A new winner, hell yeah! Heading to be a appropriate cliffhanger this! 🏏#WPL2024… pic.twitter.com/fw8AWdDKqj
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RCB will now choose on residence favourites Delhi Capitals in the summit clash on 17th March at 7:30 PM IST at the very same location.