Sophie Molineux has taken three wickets as Royal Challengers Bangalore delighted a big and noisy house crowd on the M Chinnaswamy Stadium with a second successive victory within the Women’s Premier League.
The 26-year-old Victorian was costly on her WPL debut on Saturday, taking 1-36 off her 4 overs as RCB beat UP Warriorz, however she confirmed she may very well be a cut price $55,000 recruit in her second outing on Tuesday [Wednesday AEDT].
Georgia Wareham additionally picked up a wicket and Elysse Perry made a speedy unbeaten 23 as RCB’s three Aussies gained bragging rights over Giants’ trio of compatriots.
Beth Mooney, Ashleigh Gardner and Phoebe Litchfield made simply 20 runs between them as Giants managed an insufficient 7-107.
RCB, who’re internet hosting the primary 11 group stage video games, romped to an eight-wicket victory in entrance of greater than 23,000. Garder dismissed Kiwi Sophie Devine (6) early on by Smriti Mandhana (43), Sabbhieni Meghana (36) and Perry noticed RCB house with greater than seven overs to spare.
Having misplaced the toss Mooney was quickly on the crease, the house facet opting to discipline. However, she was not there for lengthy, perishing within the third over, bowled on the drive by Renuka Singh for eight off seven balls.
Litchfield changed the skipper, but in addition struggled to get the ball away earlier than being stumped for a 12-ball 5.
Ellyse Perry (0-8) was hit for six by Veda Krishnamurthy nevertheless it was a uncommon blow as Gujurat reached the midpoint nicely behind par at 2-44.
It acquired worse as Molineux entered the assault, dismissing Krishnamurthy (9) then effecting the run-out of Harleen Deol (22) who was despatched again by Gardner as she tried to name the Australian via for a run that wasn’t there.
That decreased the guests to 4-50 after 11 overs. Gardner tried to regular the innings with Dayalan Hemalatha however the pair discovered it onerous to extend the speed. Five overs and 20 runs later Gardner tried to speed up in opposition to Australian worldwide teammate Georgia Wareham. But she was crushed within the flight, launched the ball excessive however not very far, and was caught for a 12-ball seven.
Molineux picked up two extra wickets, Kathryn Bryce (3) bowled and Sneh Rana (12) stumped, because the Giants scrambled into three figures. Wareham (1-20) was unfortunate to not add to her tally with Hemalatha, who high scored with 31, dropped off the ultimate ball.
“Obviously defending a low total is always going to be hard on these wickets with the batting line up RCB have,” mentioned Mooney. “We’ll have to go back to the drawing board an find out what is going to work moving forward. T20 is a pretty fickle game, things turn around very quickly. If we start scoring runs in the next two games you will all forget about the first two.”
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
