Lanning, Jonassen and Radha slay Giants to propel Capitals to the highest
Delhi Capitals 163 for 8 (Lanning 55, Meghna 4-37) beat Gujarat Giants 138 for 8 (Gardner 40, Radha 3-20, Jonassen 3-22) by 25 runs
Meg Lanning‘s half-century and one other class bowling show by Jess Jonassen propelled Delhi Capitals to the highest of the WPL table and saved Gujarat Giants winless in Bengaluru on Sunday.
Having received the toss and opted to bowl, Giants have been ragged within the discipline, lacking 5 possibilities as they sought their first win of the season. One of these was Lanning, and he or she made them pay with a 41-ball 55 regardless of Meghna Singh‘s spectacular four-wicket haul. Lanning moved previous 9,000 T20 runs in the course of the course of her innings, which was the stand-out for Capitals for whom Alice Capsey made a begin and Annabel Sutherland performed a neat cameo of 20 from 12.
Ashleigh Gardner threatened with a 31-ball 40 however when she fell to Jonassen, who backed up her 3 for 21 in opposition to RCB on Thursday with 3 for 22, Giants have been left nonetheless trying to find a primary victory since their sixth match of WPL 2023. Radha Yadav claimed a helpful 3 for 20 for Capitals to place the end result past any doubt.
Jonassen will get the job finished
Titas Sadhu, making her WPL debut after seven T20Is for India, opened the bowling within the absence of Marizanne Kapp and began with a maiden as Capitals launched their defence of 163 for 8. Shikha Pandey struck together with her third ball, an absolute gem which swung in late and snuck by the hole between Laura Wolvaardt’s bat and pad to crash into the highest of leg stump, eradicating the South Africa opener for a three-ball duck. Pandey may have had one other moments later when she struck Beth Mooney on the pad according to center stump however Capitals errantly selected to not assessment the on-field reprieve.
Phoebe Litchfield helped herself to 11 runs off Sadhu’s second over. Then three fours in 4 balls to Mooney and Litchfield off Pandey had Giants cruising within the fourth over. But Jonassen entered the assault and pinned Mooney on the entrance pad adjoining to the stumps and Giants needed to try to rebuild. Jonassen struck once more, nonetheless, when Litchfield spooned one straight to mid-off and the momentum swung firmly in direction of Capitals.
Radha, at deep midwicket, put down a catch off Veda Krishnamurthy, on 6, however crucially Giants have been nicely behind on 41 for 3 on the finish of the powerplay. After seven overs, that they had already confronted 25 dot balls. Gardner minimize unfastened with a 78m six and 4 off Arundhati Reddy in order that on the midway level of the innings Giants have been 72 for 4, needing 92 extra. Jonassen returned to the assault with Giants needing 60 from six overs and he or she all however ended their hopes, placing the ball on a size outdoors off-stump as Gardner superior, swung and missed. Taniya Bhatia whipped off the bails with Gardner too far down the monitor and Giants too far behind.
Meghna shines big-time for Giants
Shafali Verma struck the primary ball she confronted, from Tanuja Kanwar, by sq. leg for 4 with impeccable timing and two balls later lofted a six again over the bowler’s head. To make issues worse for Giants, Kanwar dropped a return catch off Shafali on the finish of the over, which price 12 runs there after which, and who was to know what number of extra at that time. As it turned out, Shafali added simply three extra earlier than Meghna had her comfortably caught by Wolvaardt at sq. leg. Lanning and Capsey settled right into a rhythm and took Capitals to 51 for 1 by the top of the powerplay, however Meghna struck once more with the essential wicket of Capsey, who was in good kind with scores of 75 and 46 heading into the match. Meghna ended Capsey’s newest innings on 27 with a tempter outdoors off stump, sliced to Kanwar at backward level, and he or she wasn’t finished but.
That despatched Capitals into their shell as 19 deliveries got here and went with out a boundary. Lanning broke that by thumping debutant Tarannum Pathan over long-off for a most and from there she seemed busy as soon as extra. Lanning ought to have been gone for 30 when she spooned a Mannat Kashyap supply straight to mid-off, the place Kathryn Bryce missed a sitter. Gardner had conceded 11 runs off her first over and her second went for 13 as Lanning moved inside one clear strike of her fifty. She bought there with an authoritative jab to the fitting of midwicket which was so nicely hit it evaded Gardner’s finest efforts to cease it simply contained in the rope at deep midwicket. Another 4 over cowl got here off the subsequent ball but it surely was Lanning’s anguish and Meghna’s pleasure when D Hemalatha moved to her left and held on at cowl level to cease the Capitals skipper in full circulate after her second half-century of the marketing campaign.
Jemimah Rodrigues laboured to 7 off 10 balls earlier than Mannat Kashyap had her taken by Pathan at quick third, however with Sutherland – within the aspect for Marizanne Kapp – and Jonassen on the crease, Capitals remained harmful. Sutherland hit a monster 76m six off Bryce and, two balls later, Jonassen was let off by Hemalatha, who copped a blow to the brow because the ball flew by her palms at deep midwicket and ended up needing a concussion substitute. Jonassen dispatched a Gardner full toss over the fence at deep sq. leg however was nicely caught behind by Mooney subsequent ball. Kanwar bowled a superb seventeenth over and was rewarded with the wicket of Sutherland, caught by Gardner at deep midwicket. Meghna juggled a catch at long-on to take away Arundhati Reddy and provides Gardner her second, the look on the bowler’s face making her reduction palpable. After Kashyap shelled one at additional cowl, Meghna trapped Radha lbw with the final ball of the innings, to turn out to be the primary Indian quick bowler to select up a four-for within the WPL.