The UP Warriorz has successfully defended their 225 total and secured a 12-run victory in the WPL 2025 clash against Royal Challengers Bengaluru on March 08 at Ekana Cricket Stadium.
Despite a close countercall, UP Warriorz went on to take all 10 wickets to claim a victory in the match. With this defeat, Royal Challengers Bengaluru lost their chances to qualify for the playoffs.
RCB women who won the toss, opted to bowl first. The UP Warriorz openers Grace Harris and Georgia Voll were in hot form scoring 67 runs and recorded the highest powerplay runs of the season with Grace Harris scoring 30 and Voll scoring 34 runs to give a solid start for the side.
However, Harris was dismissed on a runout in the first ball of the 8th over. After the dismissal of Harris for 39 runs, Kiran Navgire joined Voll to haunt RCB bowlers in the match.
Meanwhile Georgia brought second WPL fifty and went on to score 99* runs and become joint highest individual scorer along with Sophie Devine in the tournament.
Kiran Navgire went on to score 46 runs in 16 deliveries and narrowly missed a fifty in the match.
After Georgia Wareham picked the wickets of Kiran and Chinelle Henry (19), Sophie Ecclestone contributed 13 runs while playing along Voll. In the end, UP Warriorz went on to score 225 runs in their 20 overs.
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RCB Women had a fiery start scoring 70 runs in the powerplay and lost the wickets of Smriti Mandhana and Meghana. However, after decent contributions from Ellyse Perry (24) and Raghavi (14) Bengaluru, they lost four wickets for 80 runs.
Richa Ghosh who came to bat at no. 5 scored fourth WPL fifty and went on to score 69 runs in 33 deliveries which included 6 fours and 5 sixes. Her impressive innings went on to keep RCB alive in the match.
Georgia Wareham contributed 17 runs while Charlotte Dean scored 9 runs before being dismissed by Sophie Ecclestone.
Sneh Rana who camed to bat after Dean, made an impressive display scoring 26 runs off 6 deliveries. However her dismissal by Deepti Sharma, RCB lost all their all 10 wickets scoring 213 runs.
Sophie Ecclestone and Deepti Sharma bagged three wickets each while Chinelle Henry picked two wickets and Anjali Sarvani bagged one.
