Royal Challengers Bangalore vs UP Warriors WPL 2023 Match Report and Highlights: This is UP Warriors’ second win in 3 matches and is third in the points table.
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Mumbai: Teams are changing, days are changing but the condition of Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) is not changing. Women’s Premier League In the first season of (WPL 2023), the team led by Smriti Mandhana, who were facing continuous defeat, once again faced a crushing defeat. In the match held on Friday, March 10, UP Warriors blasted RCB by 10 wickets and registered their second win in the tournament. Captain Alyssa Healy scored an explosive half-century, while the spin duo of Sophie Eccleston and Deepti Sharma dismantled RCB’s batting.
In this match played at Brabourne Stadium, RCB batted first and also expected to reverse the fortunes with 3 changes but it did not happen. Captain Smriti Mandhana (4) was able to make an impact with the bat and once again her bowlers and fielders also disappointed. On the other hand, UP captain Alyssa Healy left behind the personal failure of the first two matches and made the team win in the 13th over by scoring the biggest score of the tournament.
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Sophie-Deepti played
For RCB, once again the foreign veterans took up the responsibility of scoring runs. Experienced opener Sophie Devine (36) started raining runs from the very first over and hit a quick 36 runs. At the same time, Ellis Parry (52) scored his first half-century in the season. Australia’s legendary all-rounder Parry completed his half-century in 35 balls but no other batsman could stay at the crease to support him.
RCB, who scored 85 runs losing 3 wickets till the 11th over, faltered badly in the next 9 overs and were bundled out for just 138 runs in 19.3 overs. England’s star spinner Sophie Ecclestone (13/4) and India’s experienced spinner Deepti Sharma (26/3) did this to RCB.
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RCB blown up in Healy’s explosion
Now to save such a small score, tremendous performance in bowling and fielding is needed, but RCB was battered on these two fronts in the last 3 matches as well and the same situation remained here. Then when there is a batsman like Alyssa Healy in front, then good bowlers lose their sweat. Healy did not score anything special in the first two matches and he took out all his efforts in this match.
In just 29 balls, the Australian captain of UP hit his first half-century in the tournament. RCB’s every effort in front of Healy’s attack failed and Healy scored an unbeaten 97 runs (18 fours, 1 six) in just 47 balls to give the team victory in just the 13th over. Healy missed out on becoming the first player to score a century in the tournament. Devika Vaidya, who came in the opening this time to support her, also made a good contribution and scored 36 runs in 31 balls.
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