WPL: Toofan beats RCB, fourth straight defeat to UP

Chasing 139, Healy made use of the quick boundaries on the Brabourne Stadium with 18 fours and a most, doing the heavy lifting in a chase that was capped inside 13 overs.

The Australian keeper-batsman adopted up towards Renuka Singh Thakur within the ninth over, mentioning his half-century in 29 balls. Thakur had dismissed Healy 4 occasions within the first T20 however on Friday, it was time for the Australian to make a comeback, hitting him for 4 fours in consecutive balls.

9️⃣6️⃣* runs
4️⃣7️⃣ balls
1️⃣8️⃣ 4
1️⃣ six@ahealy77chasing for knock @UPWarriorz Was stuffed with time and grandeur 👌🏻👌🏻

Watch his innings right here 🎥🔽 #TATAWPL , #RCBvUPW https://t.co/lTEnR2xCCM pic.twitter.com/Z7vpAdKtnO

– Women’s Premier League (WPL) (@wplt20) March 10, 2023

“At the time-out, we had a discussion about not pulling it out until the last over,” Healy would say after the match. “Sometimes it stops, sometimes it doesn’t. Today it happened and I’m very happy about it.”

Devika Vaidya, who changed Shweta Sehrawat as Healy’s opening accomplice, scored a 31-ball 36 within the win that helped UP transfer as much as third within the factors desk with two wins from three matches.

The defeat secured the fourth spot for RCB in 4 matches as they remained on the backside of the desk.

massive spin duo delivers

Earlier, eight out of 10 wickets of RCB fell to the spinners. Seven of them have been shared between Sophie Ecclestone and Deepti Sharma.

“When you throw the ball at them, you know what you will get,” UP Warriors captain Healy had stated about Ecclestone and Sharma after their first match in WPL 2023. 138 with the bat, recording bowling figures of 4/13 and three/26 respectively.

All spherical nice efficiency 👏 👏@UPWarriorz match with w in 8️⃣ #TATAWPL

Scorecard ▶️ https://t.co/aLy7IOKGXp#RCBvUPW pic.twitter.com/gucvNWVTAZ

– Women’s Premier League (WPL) (@wplt20) March 10, 2023

Already below the pump and on the backside of the factors desk in Friday night time’s sport on the Brabourne Stadium, RCB skipper Smriti Mandhana opted to bat first after the toss of the coin in her favour.

And RCB scored 54 runs within the powerplay. After scoring essentially the most boundaries within the powerplay – essentially the most for any workforce within the event to this point, Bangalore misplaced the plot within the final 10 overs. While Ellyse Perry’s fifty laid the groundwork for a mammoth whole, they misplaced their final 8 wickets within the second half of the innings for simply 53 runs.

With a 44-run partnership for the second wicket with Perry and Sophie Devine, Ecclestone gave UP the much-needed breakthrough, leaving Devine room as she tried a late reduce shot that fell off her off-stump.

Returning for his third over, the England International simply eliminated Shreyanka Patil, who lofted a full size supply straight to the skin fielder at cowl. In his closing act with the ball, Ecclestone bagged two wickets in two balls within the twentieth over, clean-bowling Renuka Singh on an tried slog and trapping Sahana Pawar in entrance of the wickets, which was pretty simple .

Falling of wickets, @sofek19 starred with the ball and top-notch efficiency from the primary innings of #RCBvUPW stumble upon #TATAWPL @UPWarriorz

Summary of his bowling efficiency 🔽 pic.twitter.com/8y7jtlXM3b

– Women’s Premier League (WPL) (@wplt20) March 10, 2023

Earlier it was Deepti Sharma who began the collapse by dismissing Perry and Erin Burns in the identical over. While Perry fell in an try to brush, Burns, who changed Annabel Sutherland within the lineup, got here down the observe and missed it fully.

“I think that has been happening in the last four games. We start well and we lose a bunch of wickets. I’ll take the blame too. As a top-order batsman, we need to defend the bowlers to put runs on the board,” RCB skipper Mandhana stated afterwards.