Women's T20 League

Match 11: DEL-W vs BLR-W

Preview

The Women’s IND T20 League's eleventh match is set to begin on Monday at 07:30 PM IST, 13th March 2023. It's a do-or-die battle for Smriti Mandhana-led BLR-W when they face off against second place in the league Meg Lanning's DEL-W. This match is scheduled to take place at Dr DY Patil Sports Academy, Mumbai. One side is coming with a win and the other is coming with a defeat in this match.

With half of the first Women’s IND T20 League over, DEL-W is looking forward to strengthening its top spot. BLR-W must win all its remaining 4 games to qualify for the finals. Delhi stands second in the points table with 3 wins out of 4 matches, with a positive net run rate of +2.338. Whereas, Bangalore stands last in the points table after losing 4 out of 4 matches the side has played so far, with a negative net run rate of -2.648.

Mandhana's side has lost all its games this season so far. In the last game against UP-W, BLR-W managed to put 138 runs on the board. With the courtesy of Aussie all-rounder Ellyse Perry scored her first half-century of the league. UP-W skipper and opening batter Alyssa Healy scored 96 off 47 deliveries to hand over a 10-wicket defeat to the BLR-W.

For Delhi, Marizanne Kapp and Shafali Verma slayed GUJ-W with their performances in its last match. Kapp took the first fifer of the Women’s IND T20 League for just 15 runs. India's Shikha Pandey also took 3 wickets to restrict GUJ-W to 105. Captain Meg Lanning's 21 and Shafali Verma's 76 off 28 balls included 10 fours and 5 sixes in her astonishing innings, with a strike rate of 271.43.

Mandhana-led BLR-W played Delhi women in their first game of the season. Lanning (72) and Verma (84) scored half-centuries to set a target of 224 for Bangalore. English all-rounder Heather Knight was the only successful bowler from BLR-W with 2 wickets. Bangalore couldn’t handle the pressure set by Delhi and lost the game by 60 runs. Captain Smriti Mandhana was the leading run-scorer from the BLR-W camp with 35 runs in that match.

Match Details

Match: DEL-W vs BLR-W, Match 11, Women's T20 League

Date: Monday, 13th March

Time: 07:30 PM

Venue: DY Patil Sports Academy, Mumbai

Pitch & Weather Report

At this venue, the team batting second in the 5 T20s of the Women’s IND T20 League has chased the target on 3 occasions. DEL-W has won 2 out of the three games played at DY Patil Sports Academy. The last two games have shown chasing targets will be an ideal choice. The team winning the toss should bowl first.

DY Patil Sports Academy holds a capacity of 60000 spectators and has hosted 2 T20WIs so far. Aussie women have registered the highest total (187) at this venue. The wicket has produced some high-scoring games in recent times. The green top gives some bounce to pacers in the early stages. Overall it’s a batting pitch.

The maximum temperature will remain at 38°C, with a low of 26°C with 29% humidity, and a wind speed of 10 Km/hr for the eleventh Match, the Women's IND T20 on Mar 13 b/w DEL-W vs BLR-W. The weather in DY Patil Sports Academy, Mumbai during the match day will be clear and no rain is predicted in the evening.

DEL-W vs BLR-W Squad:

DEL-W: Jemimah Rodrigues, Shefali Verma, Marizanne Kapp, Meg Lanning, Alice Capsey, Shikha Pandey, Jess Jonassen, Laura Harris, Radha Yadav, Arundhati Reddy, Minnu Mani, Poonam Yadav, Sneha Deepthi, Taniyaa Bhatia, Titas Sadhu, Jasia Akhter, Aparna Mondal and Tara Norris.

BLR-W: Smriti Mandhana (c), Richa Ghosh (wk), Sophie Devine, Ellyse Perry, Disha Kasat, Heather Knight, Kanika Ahuja, Asha Shobana, Megan Schutt, Preeti Bose, Renuka Thakur Singh, Dane van Niekerk, Indrani Roy, Erin Burns, Poonam Khemnar, Sahana Pawar, Shreyanka Patil, Komal Zanzad

DEL-W vs BLR-W: Probable XIs

DEL-W: Meg Lanning (c), Shafali Verma, Marizanne Kapp, Jemimah Rodrigues, Alice Capsey, Jess Jonassen, Taniya Bhatia (wk), Minnu Mani, Shikha Pandey, Radha Yadav, Tara Norris

BLR-W: Smriti Mandhana (c), Sophie Devine, Ellyse Perry, Heather Knight, Richa Ghosh (wk), Erin Burns, Shreyanka Patil, Kanika Ahuja, Sahana Pawar, Komal Zanzad, Renuka Thakur Singh

Match Prediction

Meg Lanning-led Delhi is on the top of its game with three wins in four games. The skipper of the side Lanning and destructive opener Verma lead the run scorer’s chart. Both the batters have a two hundred-and-one-fifty-run partnership in 4 games played together. Delhi has already beaten Bangalore by a big margin.

On the other hand, Mandhana-led BLR-W struggled to score runs and take wickets throughout the season so far. BLR-W's key players are underperforming, costing them all four games. We say DEL-W to win this match against Bangalore to pick their 4th win of the tournament.

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