Delhi Capitals 194 for five (Shafali 50, Capsey 46, Devine 2-23, de Klerk 2-35) beat Royal Challengers Bangalore 169 for 9 (Mandhana 74, Meghana 36, Jonassen 3-21, Kapp 2-35) by 25 runs

Shafali Verma struck back-to-back fifties•BCCI

Shafali and Capsey prepared the ground

Shafali lofted Renuka Singh again over the bowler's head for a stunning 4 within the opening over of the match and, moments later, was put down at cowl by Shreyanka Patil. A six over deep midwicket off Sophie Devine adopted subsequent over, however it was Devine who made the primary breakthrough when Meg Lanning picked out Georgia Wareham at deep backward level off a brief, large ball. Ideally, she ought to have put that away, resulting in Devine not even celebrating as Lanning trudged again to the dugout for 11. Shafali lofted Sophie Molineux over long-on for a 78m six to take Capitals to 45 for 1 on the finish of the powerplay.

Shafali introduced up her fifty with back-to-back sixes off Shreyanka, however she fell subsequent ball, making an attempt for a 3rd however managing solely to search out Wareham ready underneath it at deep midwicket.

De Klerk takes her probability

Called into the RCB facet to switch an ailing Ellyse Perry, Nadine de Klerk made essentially the most of her WPL debut, eradicating Jemimah Rodrigues earlier than she might pose a risk and claiming the prize wicket of Capsey for 46. It wasn't all easy for the South Africa allrounder, although. She noticed Capsey muscle her first supply, a slower one exterior off-stump, over deep midwicket for six and will have had Capsey out for 41 however Devine spilled a simple probability at long-on.

She had Rodrigues out for a four-ball duck, extracting some additional bounce because the batter tried to clear mid-off and located Simran Bahadur ready there. But it was a pin-point yorker which clattered into Capsey's stumps that supplied the spotlight for de Klerk. Her final over proved pricey as Kapp piled on two sixes and a 4, with Devine breaking the Kapp-Jonassen union within the penultimate over when Kapp miscued to Bahadur at long-off. Jonassen, who changed fellow Australian Annabel Sutherland within the Capitals' line-up, struck 4 fours and two sixes en path to an unbeaten 36 off 16 balls, her six off the final ball, from Patil, taking her facet previous the formidable 190-mark.

Smriti Mandhana received RCB's chase off to a flying begin•BCCI

Mandhana shines, relaxation disappoint

Mandhana started RCB's pursuit in tremendous style, racing to 36 off 21 balls after 4 overs and dominating her partnership with Devine, who confronted simply three balls to that time. By the top of the powerplay, she had struck seven fours and two sixes for her 45 not out, taking RCB to 52 with out loss. Mandhana minimize Minnu Mani behind backward level and ran two to succeed in her maiden WPL fifty and that prompted Devine to instantly break the shackles that had seen her restricted to 9 off 12 balls. Devine superior down the pitch to pummel back-to-back sixes over long-on and deep midwicket, each measured at a staggering 87m. She fell within the subsequent over, nonetheless, top-edging a full toss from Arundhati Reddy to Jonassen at midwicket.

With RCB nonetheless scoring under the required run fee, it was all the time going to be a giant ask, regardless of Smriti accessing all areas of the bottom for her runs. She elegantly positioned Radha Yadav over cowl to the boundary to get them again on observe momentarily and her six off Kapp over deep midwicket to maneuver to 74 was elegant. But she was out on the very subsequent supply when Kapp took the tempo off a size ball and pegged again off stump as Mandhana swung early and missed, having confronted 43 balls.

Kapp claimed one other key wicket when she had Richa Ghosh caught by Jonassen to finish with 2 for 35 from her 4 overs. S Meghana was run out for 36 and Reddy had de Klerk caught cheaply subsequent ball with RCB needing 31 off eight balls. Jonassen, Australia's loss of life bowler deluxe claimed three wickets within the ultimate over by which period, the consequence was past doubt.

Valkerie Baynes is a basic editor, girls's cricket, at ESPNcricinfo