RCBW vs GGW Playing 11: Smriti Mandhana-led Royal Challengers Bengaluru will square off against Ashleigh Gardner-led Gujarat Giants on the 12th match of the WPL 2025 on February 27 at M. Chinnaswamy Stadium.
Bengaluru has two wins out of four matches while Gujarat have only one win out of four games they played in the season so far.
Gujarat Giants won the toss and opted to bowl first. Speaking at the toss Gujarat Giants captain Ashleigh Gardner said, “We are going to bowl first. Chasing seems to be easier throughout this competition.”
“Hopefully we’ll be able to take early wickets and then be able to chase down the runs. We spoke about the powerplay, that’s probably the elephant in the room. We need to capitalize on that with the bat.”
“The bowlers have done a reasonable job. We haven’t had many runs to work with. (Vocal captain?) Take it easy, it’s about talking to individuals rather than as a whole group.”
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“As a player, you have a lot on your plate. Results kind of take care of themselves. One change. Hema comes in for Simran.”
Meanwhile RCB captain Smriti Mandhana said, “We would have loved to chase as well. We’ve been really close in the last two matches while defending. Hopefully we can put up a good total. It’s very hard to lose close games.”
“As a captain, you’d want to lose close games than one-sided because you know that you are not that far away. A little bit of a roller-coaster ride in the last two games for us but all the girls are calm.”
“(Pressure while playing in front of the fans?) We have few new people in the team who have not experienced this sort of environment.”
“Having said that, fans are always our strength. Whenever they cheer RCB, that’s something which always puts us in a positive frame of mind. Prema comes back in for Ekta today.”
RCBW vs GGW Playing 11
Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Smriti Mandhana(c), Danielle Wyatt-Hodge, Ellyse Perry, Richa Ghosh(w), Raghvi Bist, Kanika Ahuja, Georgia Wareham, Sneh Rana, Kim Garth, Prema Rawat, Renuka Singh Thakur
Gujarat Giants: Beth Mooney(w), Harleen Deol, Phoebe Litchfield, Dayalan Hemalatha, Ashleigh Gardner(c), Deandra Dottin, Kashvee Gautam, Bharti Fulmali, Meghna Singh, Tanuja Kanwar, Priya Mishra
Also Read: WPL 2025 Points Table, Team Standings, NRR – TODAY
