M Chinnaswamy Stadium Pitch Report For RCB-W vs GG-W WPL 2025 Match

Bhargav Dixit

Bengaluru will be hosting its sixth WPL 2025 match on Thursday. [Source: @cricketworldcup/X]Bengaluru will be hosting its sixth WPL 2025 match on Thursday. [Source: @cricketworldcup/X]

A recap of WPL 2025 season opener will take place at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium on Thursday. Royal Challengers Bengaluru, defending champions and hosts, will take on Gujarat Giants in the 12th match of the third season of the tournament.

Having won and lost a couple of matches each thus far, RCB-W are at the second spot on the points table. As was the case with them in the first two seasons, GG-W continue to safeguard their bottom spot on the back of a solitary victory across four matches.

As far as the ground is concerned, Bengaluru will be hosting a Women's Premier League 2025 match for the sixth time on February 27. While Royal Challengers have lost both their home matches till now, Giants also lost to Delhi Capitals Women here on Tuesday.

M Chinnaswamy Stadium Stats And Records In WPL 2025

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Numbers
Matches Played4
Matches Won Batting 1st1
Matches Won Batting 2nd2
Tied1
Average 1st Innings Total159
Average 2nd Innings Total156


M Chinnaswamy Stadium Pitch Report Today

M Chinnaswamy Stadium and high-scoring matches are synonymous to one another. The inherent tendency of the pitches at this stadium to incline towards batters is well-known. Among bowlers, only the skilled ones will be able to survive.

Out of the first nine innings of this season here, teams have been able to surpass the 160-run mark five times. Overall, the average innings total for the season is 157.55.

Players To Watch Out At M Chinnaswamy Stadium In RCB-W vs GG-W

Smriti Mandhana (RCB-W)

Highest run-scorer in Women’s T20s played in the city, Bengaluru captain Smriti Mandhana has scored 307 runs at an average of 27.90 and a strike rate of 140.82 including three half-centuries. Yet to click here this season, one expects the left-handed batter to make amends post twin failures.

Ellyse Perry (RCB-W)

One of the two players to have scored in excess of 300 runs in Women’s T20s at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium, veteran all-rounder Ellyse Perry has done even better than her captain in terms of the average and strike rate. Across six innings, the right-handed batter’s 304 runs have come at an average and strike rate of 101.33 and 155.89 respectively.

Tanuja Kanwar (GG-W)

While the GG-W spinner hasn’t had the best of seasons till now, her seven wickets in five Bengaluru T20s have come at an average of 15.42, an economy rate of 7.20 and a strike rate of 12.8. Readers must note that her strike rate is the fourth-best among active bowlers (min. 5 wickets).