Last year, Virat Kohli could not control his laugh when RCB captain Faf du Plessis pronounced the Royal Challengers Bangalore’ Ee Sala Cup Namde’ slogan as ‘Ee Sala Cup Nahi’. Now, after one year, the cup finally belongs to Royal Challengers Bangalore for the first time in the rich history of cricket. While ending their trophy run in franchise cricket, Smriti Mandana and Royal challengers Bangalore defeated Delhi Capitals in the women’s premier league finals on Sunday.
The inaugural runner-up of the women’s Premier League, Delhi Capitals, failed to extend their winning run against Royal challengers Bangalore in the summit clash of the WPL 2024 at the Arun Jaitley Stadium on Sunday. The unexpected finalist Royal Challengers Bangalore defeated Delhi Capitals by eight wickets to seal their maiden T20 title in Delhi. This is the first victory of Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Delhi Capitals in 5 matches, which ended the 16-year-long wait of Bangalore for a T20 title, the former captain of Bangalore, Virat Kohli video called the women’s team captain Smriti Mandhana as the women of RCB rewriting history in the summit clash of WPL,
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Virat congratulated Smriti and her team via video call before RCB lifted the trophy of the women’s Premier League at the Arun Jaitley Stadium video calling RCB captain, the premium batsman of the Indian Cricket Team, Virat Kohli, also took to Instagram where he shared an amazing post for the Superwoman of Bangalore. This interaction and post of Virat Kohli became an instant hit among the fans on social media platforms. The superstar of RCB, Glenn Maxwell, and legendary opener of West Indies, Chris Gayle, were also quite emotional in their messages for the Royal Challengers Bangalore women’s cricket team.
While choosing to bat first in the finals of WPL 2024, Delhi Capitals made a positive start, with captain Meg Lanning scoring 23 runs in 23 balls and Shafali Verma scoring 44 runs in 27 balls while adding 64 runs for the first wicket. However, three back-to-back setbacks were suffered by Delhi Capitals in the finals match as Sophie Molineux, the left-arm spinner of team Australia, set up the downfall of the hosts. To ensure the final was turned into a low-scoring encounter, Sophie got the better of Shafali, Jemimah, and Alice.
Emerging as the pic of bowlers Shreyanka Pati from RCB picked for wickets as Delhi capital folded for 113 in 18.3 overs. Although Lanning successfully took the game into The final over, Ellyse Perry’s unbeaten knock of 35 runs in 37 balls helped RCB to an eight-wicket victory over Delhi Capitals.
