Mumbai: Delhi Capitals defeated Gujarat Giants in the 9th match of the ongoing Women’s Premier League season. Delhi beat the Gujarat team in bowling and batting. Shabali Verma scored 76 runs off 28 balls for the Delhi team. It included 10 fours and 5 sixes. His strike rate is 271.43.
Gujarat won the toss and elected to bat. The team stumbled by losing 5 wickets in the powerplay overs. That too the team had scored only 28 runs in the first 28 balls and lost 5 wickets. However, at the end of 20 overs, Gujarat scored 105 runs for the loss of 9 wickets.
Marisan Cape, who bowled for the Delhi team, took 5 wickets. Shikha Pandey took 3 wickets. Radha Yadav took a wicket.
Delhi chased down the target of winning by 106 runs. The team’s captain Meg Lanning and Shabali Verma opened the innings. Delhi scored 107 runs without losing a wicket in 7.1 overs. It won by 10 wickets. Marissane Cape won the player of the match award.
