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Niki Prasad surveyed the gaps successful the outfield for 1 last clip successful the Women’s Premier League connected Tuesday. With 4 needed disconnected the past shot for Delhi Capitals to travel backmost from the brink and implicit a pursuit of 175 against Gujarat Giants, the 20-year-old had to dispatch the shrewd and experienced Sophie Devine towards the boundary.
She had done truthful good till past to contention to 47 and supply Capitals anticipation erstwhile each seemed lost, but erstwhile it came to the climax, she fell agonisingly abbreviated arsenic her changeable recovered Ashleigh Gardner astatine long-on.
Chin up, girls. That was 1 hellhole of a fight. pic.twitter.com/ajcKwSAWkj
— Delhi Capitals (@DelhiCapitals) January 28, 2026It was a heartbreaking extremity to the contention for the middle-order batter. But moments aft the conclusion, Niki was capable to instrumentality it connected the chin and bespeak connected the crippled successful the post-match media interaction.
“Definitely disappointed that I couldn’t get that boundary. But then, obviously, it’s a learning [experience] for me. And I’m going to spell backmost and bid harder and marque definite that adjacent clip erstwhile I’m enactment nether specified a situation, I’m going to transverse the line,” the 2025 U-19 World Cup-winning skipper said.
Niki’s effort connected Tuesday vindicates Capitals’ spot successful the youngster from Karnataka. Although her wide numbers aren’t eye-catching, she is intelligibly susceptible of holding her ain against bowlers of the ilk of Devine and Gardner.
The Sierra Super Striker of the lucifer betwixt Gujarat Giants and Delhi Capitals goes to Niki Prasad#TATAWPL | #KhelEmotionKa | #GGvDC | @TataMotors_Cars | #SierraSuperStrikerpic.twitter.com/0dy7xMydJd
— Women's Premier League (WPL) (@wplt20) January 27, 2026She deed Devine for 4 consecutive fours done the off-side successful the 17th over, and danced down the way against Gardner and bisected long-off and long-on perfectly for a bound successful the penultimate over.
“It gives maine a batch of assurance that specified a large franchise is showing truthful overmuch religion with retention and things similar that. I was conscionable waiting for that 1 accidental wherever I decorativeness a crippled for DC. Unfortunately I couldn’t bash it today, but I’m going to bash it going forward,” she stated.
