Australia’s captain marvel Meg Lanning has made a stunning begin to her new management position in India’s new money-spinning Women’s Premier League in Mumbai.
The 30-year-old, recent from guiding her nation to victory within the T20 World Cup in South Africa final weekend, led from the entrance once more on Sunday for WPL franchise Delhi Capitals, with a blistering knock of 72 that arrange their emphatic 60-run win over Royal Challengers Bangalore at Brabourne Stadium.
Lanning, who’s been on the coronary heart of Australian ladies’s cricket domination for a decade, reckoned that she was relishing her new problem within the probably game-changing league, that includes all the most effective gamers on the earth.
“It was a lot of fun,” enthused the seven-time world champ.
“The crowd was amazing, the atmosphere was great and it’s nice to start off with a win. It was very important to get some momentum early.”
Having been requested to bat on a “belter” of a pitch, Lanning was instantly into her stride, smashing 14 boundaries in her 43-ball innings, whereas sharing a vastly entertaining opening stand of 162 with teenage Indian star Shafali Verma (84 off 45 balls).
“Shafali was excellent, I enjoyed the show from the other end,” Lanning stated, praising her 19-year-old associate.
“It was great, we were smiling a lot of the time. That’s the great thing about this competition – you get to play alongside players you wouldn’t normally and get to learn a lot off them.”
With late-innings impetus from South African Marizanne Kapp (39no off 17 balls) and Indian Jemimah Rodrigues (22no off 15), Delhi amassed a mammoth whole of 2-223.
Lanning’s World Cup-winning colleagues on Bangalore’s aspect took loads of faucet, with Aussie tempo bowler Megan Schutt being hammered for 45 off her 4 wicketless overs.
Smriti Mandhana, the WPL’s highest-paid participant, supplied some hope in Bangalore’s response when she smashed 35 off 23 balls, however as soon as she’d been dismissed, it was all downhill for the chasers.
Another Australian world champ Ellyse Perry supplied a little bit of struggle too, hitting 31 off 19 balls however she was bowled by American participant of the match Tara Norris, who skittled by their line-up with 5-29 off her 4 overs.
Schutt smacked a defiant unbeaten 30 off 19 balls on the finish of the innings, however they had been comfort runs as Bangalore completed properly brief on 8-163.
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
