WPL 2023: Shafali Verma-Mag Lanning blitz, Tara Norris five-for help Delhi Capitals crush Royal Challengers Bangalore by 60 runs | Cricket News

NEW DELHI: Shafali Verma and skipper Mag Lanning‘s blistering fifties and Tara Norris‘ five-wicket haul noticed Delhi Capitals kick off their Women’s Premier League (WPL) 2023 marketing campaign on a convincing observe, crushing Royal Challengers Bangalore by 60 runs at Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai on Sunday.(*60*)Delhi Capitals, after being put into bat, rode on harmful openers Shafali and Lanning’s attacking half-centuries to submit an imposing 223 for two.(*60*)In reply, Norris returned with figures 5/29 in 4 overs and helped DC restrict RCB to 163/8.(*60*)

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(*60*)Apart from Norris, Alice Capsey claimed 2 wickets in DC’s win.(*60*)While the younger Shafali performed some breathtaking power-packed strokes in her 84 off simply 45 deliveries (10 fours, and 4 sixes), Australia skipper Lanning was extra medical in her pictures, smashing 72 off 43 (14 fours) because the duo destroyed left RCB bowling in a tailspin.(*60*)The duo’s 162-run partnership led to an equally dramatic method, with each getting dismissed within the fifteenth over, with England off-spinner Heather Knight accounting for the 2 off the third and fifth deliveries of her second over. (*60*)Their departure off the third and fifth ball of the fifteenth over although didn’t gradual the scoring price, with Marizanne Kapp (39 not out) and younger India participant Jemimah Rodrigues (22 not out) serving to the facet cross the 200-run mark.(*60*)Chasing an unlimited 224, RCB saved shedding wickets at common intervals and had been succumbed beneath strain from the beginning.(*60*)(More to observe…)(*60*)