All-rounder Ellyse Perry has smashed her second fifty of the WPL 2025 season during the match against Mumbai Indians. She reached the fifty off 30 deliveries despite the side suffering dismissals at regular intervals.
Playing 19 matches in the WPL, she has 664 runs at an average of 55.33 and a strike rate of 125.75.
With Ellyse Perry’s knock, RCB was able to cross the 150+ run mark during the match as she continued her aggressive approach towards the bowlers.
Mandhana who had a fiery start, smashed 26 runs off 13 deliveries and was sent out by Shabnim Ismail.
With Nat Sciver Brunt dismissing Danni Wyatt for 9 runs, Hayley Matthews and Sanskriti Gupta bagged the wickets of Raghvi Bist and Kanika Ahuja cheaply further troubling RCB.
Amanjot Kaur who came to bowl in the middle overs, picked the wickets of Richa Ghosh and Goergia Wareham for 28 and 6 respectively to restrict the side on make a partnership.
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Earlier at the toss, Harmanpreet Kaur said, “We are gonna bowl first. We have seen that the first six overs are good for bowling so we are going to chase.”
“Last year we had a lot of fun in Bangalore and we are looking forward to it again. We are going with the same eleven.”
Meanwhile RCB captain Smriti Mandhana said, “It’s good to be back and have this sort of welcome. I think it’s massive for the team to have fans around, it only motivates us. Whatever we do, we do for them.”
“All the girls are really proud, we have done well in the last two games but we know Cricket is a game where we start from zero and we are charged up.”
“It looks like a good wicket, Vadodara had a lot of dew but Bangalore won’t have much dew. I don’t mind batting first here. We are going with the same eleven.”
