Introduction

Royal Challengers Bangalore and Gujarat Giants face each other desperate to put their team on the points table. Both teams come to Brabourne stadium with losses from their last game and to keep their knockout hope alive

Royal Challengers Bangalore women’s team with lot of big names similar to their men’s team but nothing to show as result is causing a dejavu effect amongst fans.

Last match showed a visible frustrated captain in Smriti Mandhana who is desperate to get their two crucial points against Gujarat Giants.

Gujarat Giants on the other hand focussed on their international players during the auction and the strategy seems to be backfiring. Injury to Beth Mooney has not helped either. Gujarat Giants are over relying on their capped internationals in the bowling department and this has made their batting very weak.

 Players to watch

Sophia Dunkley Shines as Gujarat Giants gets their first win: Highlights WPL 2023, Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Gujarat Giants: Match 6

Match N0.6 RCB VS GG Playing 11                                               

Royal Challengers Bangalore

1 Smriti Mandhana (captain), 2 Sophie Devine, 3 Khemnar, 4 Ellyse Perry, 5 Heather Knight, 6 Richa Ghosh (wk), 7 Kanika Ahuja, 8 Shreyanka Patil, 9 Megan Schutt, 10 Renuka Singh, 11 Preeti Bose

Gujarat Giants

1 Sophia Dunkley, 2 S Meghana, 3 Harleen Deol, 4 Ashleigh Gardner, 5 Sushma Verma (wk), 6 Dayalan Hemalatha, 7 Annabel Sutherland/Georgia Wareham, 8 Sneha Rana (captain), 9 Tanuja Kanwar, 10 Kim Garth, 11 Mansi Joshi

Toss won by Gujarat Giants elected to Bat

Sophia Dunkley Shines as Gujarat Giants gets their first win: Highlights WPL 2023, Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Gujarat Giants: Match 6

Gujarat Giants Batting                                                              

Power play _ key moments

• Sophia Dunkley was a girl possessed with an 18 ball 50 Runs making her the fastest to reach 50 Runs
• Powerplay went Gujarat way with 64 Runs in the powerplay
• Drop of Meghana by Richa Gosh didn’t cost RCB but timely partnership for the second wicket helped Gujarat Giants
• Smriti Mandhana missed a trick by not continuing with Perry in the powerplay

Batting and bowling  _ key moments

• Sophia Dunkley lit the Brabourne stadium with her swashbuckling batting
• RCB Bowlers and captain Mandhana looked clueless.
• England skipper Heather Knight was amazing with the ball.
• Youngster Shriyanka took the all-important wickets of the two power hitters Dunkley and top scorer Harleen Deol.
• Bowlers were taken to the cleaners but RCB would believe 202 runs can be chased in this ground.
• Richa Gosh needs to improve her wicketkeeping and avoid blunders which has become a common factor in every game, WPL or for India.

Royal Challengers Bangalore– The Chase!!                                                  

Power play _ key moments

• 59 in the powerplay but RCB loses Smriti Mandhana to Ash Gardner

Batting and bowling – key moments

• Smriti Mandhana disappoints yet again. Is Captaincy a burden for the RCB skipper
• Ellyse Perry gave some momentum to the chase till an inspiring Bowling change ( Mansi Joshi) helps to see the back of the Australian All-rounder.
• Sophie Devine and Heather Knight kept RCB in the hunt
• Glove work of Sushma Verma was impressive
• Last over with 24 to win left too much for the RCB batters to chase

Player of the match

Sophia Dunkley

Play of the day 

• Sophia Dunkley with her record breaking quick fire 50 propelled Gujarat to post a very competitive score of 201

WPL GG Vs RCB Score Card                                       

Gujarat Giants wins by 7 Runs

WPL Points Table                                    

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