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Delhi Capitals operated similar a battalion of wolves with the shot connected Saturday (January 24, 2026). The interaction was palpable arsenic the Jemimah Rodrigues-led outfit bowled retired Royal Challengers Bengaluru, which had won its archetypal 5 matches of the 2026 Women’s Premier League, for 109 to acceptable up a seven-wicket triumph astatine the Kotambi Stadium.
Riding connected Laura Wolvaardt’s unbeaten 42 successful the humble chase, Capitals sauntered location successful 15.4 overs.
DC’s splendid bowling show was the effect of a corporate effort. Seamer Nandani Sharma ran done the RCB lower-order to decorativeness with figures of 4-0-26-3. Chinelle Henry, Marizanne Kapp and Minnu Mani took 2 wickets each portion Shree Charani chipped successful with a scalp.
Henry and Kapp acceptable the code with investigating opening spells. Kapp had the in-form Smriti Mandhana fretting with a vociferous leg-before entreaty successful the 2nd over, but Capitals couldn’t reappraisal due to the fact that the South African had overstepped.
Having ambled to 5 disconnected 13 balls, Smriti yet broke the shackles with successive fours against Henry.
The deliveries were connected the fuller broadside and allowed Smriti to unfurl her exquisite drives. When Nandani came into the onslaught alternatively of Henry successful the 5th over, the southpaw repeated the dose.
However, it didn’t instrumentality overmuch longer for Kapp to interruption the opening partnership. Grace Harris’ starring borderline disconnected an attempted flick was snaffled astatine backward point.
The DC bowlers went connected to drawstring unneurotic a tally of 21 deliveries without conceding a boundary. That was halted disconnected the last shot of the eighth over, erstwhile Smriti danced down the way and smashed Sneh Rana for a maximum implicit long-on.
Smriti, though, wasn’t capable to transportation on. Once she slog-swept Minnu to Niki Prasad astatine heavy quadrate limb successful the 10th over, RCB descended into a deeper hole. The past 9 wickets fell for conscionable 47 runs arsenic nary of the incoming batters were capable to find a mode retired of trouble.
Nandani, who picked up a five-for earlier successful her debut season, was superb astatine the death. The 24-year-old gave distant 11 runs successful her past 2 overs and added 3 wickets to her tally to reclaim the Purple Cap.
