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WPL 2023: Gujarat Giants in storm of Shefali and Lanning, registered a bang win

In the ninth match of the Women’s Premier League 2023, Delhi Capitals have won in a bang. With this victory, Delhi Capitals are back on the winning track. In the matches played so far in WPL 2023, the Delhi Capitals remained strong. Delhi needed 106 runs to win. Chasing the target, Delhi Capitals won the match by scoring 107 runs without losing any wicket in 7.1 overs. Delhi Capitals’ third win.

Shefali Verma played explosive innings

Shefali Verma and captain Meg Lanning came to open the batting from the Delhi Capitals team. Both the players looked aggressive from the very first ball. Shefali Verma faced 28 balls. During this, he played an unbeaten inning of 76 runs at a strike rate above 271. Shefali hit 10 fours and five sixes in this innings. While the second opener captain Meg Lanning faced an unbeaten 21 runs in 15 balls. During this, three fours came out of his bat. Both the players returned to the pavilion only after winning Delhi.

Delhi bowlers did wonders

Along with the batting of Delhi Capitals, the bowling was also excellent. While bowling brilliantly, Marijne Kapp took the news of the Gujarat Giants batsmen fiercely. He made a punch of wickets by giving 15 runs in 4 overs of bowling. That is, he sent five batsmen of Gujarat to the pavilion. He made Sabbhineni Meghna, Laura Volward, Harleen Deol, Ash Gardner and Sushma Verma victims. Shikha Pandey took three wickets and Radha Yadav took one wicket to restrict Gujarat’s innings to 105 runs.

Gujarat Giants’ performance was very flexible

Neither the batting nor the bowling of Gujarat Giants was good. Kim Garth scored the most runs for Gujarat. He played an inning of 32 runs facing 37 balls. Georgia Wareham scored 22 runs. Harleen Deol played an inning of 20 runs. Apart from this, no batsman could score more than 15 runs. While the bowlers also did not do anything special today. This is the reason why Gujarat Giants had to face a crushing defeat by 10 wickets.