RCB Beat Delhi Capitals By 8 Wickets To Lift WPL 2024 Title
NDTV
Batting first, DC were bowled out for 113 in 18.3 overs. RCB chased down the target of 114 with three balls to spare.
A spirited women's team washed away Royal Challengers Bangalore's 16 years of hurt and disappointment, landing their maiden title which came through an eight-wicket win over Delhi Capitals in front of a cheering full house in the Women's Premier League final on Sunday. Once the spin pair of Shreyanka Patil (4/12) and Sophie Molineux (3/20) engineered a DC collapse to 113 all out, there could have been only one winner.
But the formalities had to be completed. RCB did it via their talismanic skipper Smriti Mandhana (31), Sophie Devine (32) and the impactful Elysse Perry (35 not out).
The Royal Challengers made 115 for two in 19.3 overs, a far easier victory than that tight-looking final over finish.
There will be celebrations in the dressing room, at a packed Arun Jaitley Stadium where a near full house bayed for a RCB win and in thousands of living rooms miles away in Bangalore.
A generation of RCB fans have waited for this moment, a wait that often gave fodder to social media trolls and memes.
