The Royal Challengers Bengaluru Women (RCB) has set a target of 168 during the WPL 2025 match against Mumbai Indians after Perry’s heroics at Chinnaswamy.
Ellyse Perry scored 81 runs on 43 deliveries which included 11 fours and 2 sixes before being dismissed on the fifth ball of the last over. All-rounder Ellyse Perry has smashed her second fifty of the season during the match.
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.
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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.
With contributions from Kim Garth and Ekta Bisht, RCB scored 167 in the match. Mandhana, Richa Ghosh and Ellyse Perry are the only scorers for Bengaluru.
Amanjot Kaur picked three wickets while Shabnim Ismail, Nat Sciver-Brunt, Hayley Matthews and Sanskriti Gupta picked one wicket each.
“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,” said Smriti Mandhana at the toss.
