WPL 2024 Final | Shreyanka, Molineux Demolish DC Before Perry Takes RCB To Title Win

RCB players celebrating WPL 2024 win (BCCI)

Brief Scores: Delhi Capitals Women: 113 all out (18.3 overs) [Shafali Verma: 44 (27), Meg Lanning: 23 (23); Shreyanka Patil 4/12 (3.3), Sophie Molineux 3/20 (4)] lost to Royal Challengers Bangalore Women: 115-2 (19.3 overs) [Ellyse Perry: 35* (37), Sophie Devine: 32 (27); Shikha Pandey 1/11 (4), Minnu Mani 1/12 (2)] by eight wickets.

Smriti Mandhana-led RCB ravaged season’s table-toppers Delhi Capitals at the Arun Jaitley Stadium to lift the WPL 2024 trophy.

Sophie, Shreyanka broke through Capitals juggernaut

Winning the toss and opting to bat first, Delhi Capitals skipper Meg Lanning forged a blistering start at the top with opening partner Shafali Verma. The two cricketers blazed through RCB’s new-ball attack to form 52 runs off the first five overs, and 61-0 by the end of the opening Powerplay.

Thereafter, Sophie Molineux led RCB’s fightback with a mercurial three-wicket burst in a single over, as Capitals slipped from 64-0 to 64-3 in the space of just four deliveries. Molineux’s spin colleagues Shreyanka Patil and Asha Sobhana pounced on her timely breakthroughs by scything through the rest of Capitals’ line-up with utmost ease.

While Sobhana accounted for the key wickets of Marizanne Kapp and Jess Jonassen in quick succession, young Shreyanka removed a well-settled Lanning before polishing off the Capitals tail.

At the end of RCB’s spin carnage, the WPL 2024 table-toppers found their innings enveloped at 113 in just 18.3 overs, with all 10 wickets collectively adding just 49 runs after their 64-run opening start. Shreyanka herself reaped the most out of Capitals’ colossal collapse, snaring figures of 4-12 and moving to the top of the season’s wicket-taking charts.

Mandhana, Devine, Perry compose RCB’s title win

Chasing a modest total on the night of the WPL 2024 final, RCB openers Smriti Mandhana and Sophie Devine slapped calculated 30s from their respective ends during their run-a-ball 49-run stand alliance at the top.

Devine’s dismissal at the hands of Shikha Pandey made way for number three Ellyse Perry, who formed successive composed partnerships, first with skipper Mandhana before guiding RCB past the finishing line alongside wicketkeeper Richa Ghosh (17*). Perry herself formulated 35 unbeaten runs from 37 balls as RCB aced the chase in the final over with eight wickets in the bank.

The win marked RCB’s first-ever title across all segments (IPL, WPL and CLT20) as the franchise ended its trophy drought in style.

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