WPL 2025: A great achievement in the first women's IPL match..!!

 The 2025 Women's IPL series started yesterday. In the first match, gujarat Giants and royal challengers Bangalore clashed. This match was an unexpected match with an action-packed game that broke various records. Batting first, gujarat Giants scored 201 runs for the loss of 5 wickets in 20 overs. The team's captain Ashley Gardner scored 79 runs in 37 balls. Beth Mooney scored 56 runs in 42 balls. royal challengers Bangalore played towards a Himalayan target of 202 runs. No team has ever chased a score of more than 200 runs in the history of the Women's IPL and won. But royal challengers Bangalore achieved this Himalayan target.
Ellyse Perry scored 57 runs in 34 balls for the team. Rakhi Bist played calmly and scored 25 runs in 27 balls. Richa Ghosh played an aggressive game to reduce the pressure at the last moment. She scored 64 runs in 27 balls. She hit seven fours and four sixes. Her strike rate was 237.04. kanika Ahuja, who partnered her, scored 30 runs in 13 balls. Her strike rate was 230. With their aggressive play, royal challengers Bangalore achieved the target of 202 runs in 18.3 overs and won. royal challengers Bangalore defeated gujarat Giants by 6 wickets.
This set the record for the highest run chase in the history of the Women's IPL. Earlier, mumbai Indians had chased a target of 191 runs against gujarat Giants last year and won. They have broken that record. This match also set the record for the highest combined score by two teams in a match. Previously, 391 runs were scored in the match between gujarat Giants and RCB in 2023. Now that record has been broken and 403 runs have been scored in the match between the same gujarat Giants and RCB. A total of 16 sixes were hit in this match. The previous highest number of sixes in the history of the Women's IPL was 19. This match has taken the next place.
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Sowmiya Sriram

15/02/2025 09:54 AM