258dAshish Pant

The Perry show floors Mumbai, puts RCB in playoffs

Allrounder smashes the record for best figures in the WPL, before producing a vital unbeaten 40 to snuff out Warriorz and Giants' top-three hopes

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Statistics

Best performances - Batsmen

EA Perry
40(38) 5x4 - 1x6
Control %97%
  • Productive Shot
  • flick
  • 10 runs
  • 1x4 - 0x6
8 2 1 3 7 6 6 7
RM Ghosh
RM Ghosh
36(28) 4x4 - 2x6
Control %75%
  • Productive Shot
  • slog shot
  • 12 runs
  • 0x4 - 2x6
0 0 0 5 3 8 18 2

Best performances - Bowlers

EA Perry
O4
M0
R15
W6
Eco3.75
RHB
OFFLEG
5W
1W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
SR Patil
SR Patil
O1
M0
R3
W1
Eco3.00
RHB
OFFLEG
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF
1W

Match Details

Toss

Royal Challengers Bangalore Women , elected to field first

Player Of The Match

Season

Hours of play (local time)

19.30 start, First Session 19.30-21.00, Interval 21.00-21.20, Second Session 21.20-22.50

Match days

12 March 2024 - night match (20-over match)

Reserve Umpire

Match Referee

Points

Royal Challengers Bangalore Women 2, Mumbai Indians Women 0

Scorer: Chandan Duorah | Commentator: Shashwat Kumar

END OF OVER:
15 | 15 Runs | RCB-W: 115/3 | RR: 7.66

  • Ellyse Perry40 (38b)
  • Richa Ghosh36 (28b)
  • Pooja Vastrakar3-0-26-0
  • Saika Ishaque2-0-24-0

10:50pm That will be a wrap from us. Almost everything has been decided but there is still one fine detail left to be sorted out. The Delhi Capitals are heavy favourites to finish top, but there exists a mathematical scenario where they lose and their NRR slips below that of the Mumbai Indians. Very slim chance, but that is what will be at stake tomorrow as they look for momentum before the playoffs, and the Gujarat Giants hope to finish their campaign on a high. Do join us for that game too. Until then, this is goodbye from all of us here at ESPNcricinfo!

Ellyse Perry, Player of the Match: Sometimes, it just goes your way. Really nice to play a great match with the girls. It was an important game and nice to get a win over them - first time in the competition. I really enjoyed bowling. Sometimes, I am just getting walloped all around the ground, then some days it is like this. The ball nipped around a little bit and it was fun. (On if her all-round game is at her best) The games are coming thick and fast and you don't know. You turn up and have a go. I loved that partnership with Richa. It was a tricky chase, not the easiest wicket tonight. We have grown through the tournament. We are getting used to the conditions and looking forward to the chance (of playing a playoff) in a couple of days' time. We are going to have another tough opponent, same opponent next game but good to be there (in the playoffs).

Smriti Mandhana, Royal Challengers Bangalore captain: (How they turned things around) The last match, losing by one run, is not a great thing, given the effort everyone put. That was the whole conversation that one run does not make us a bad team. We played good cricket that day as well. We had a good training session yesterday and wanted to come back. They had a good start. Sajana batted well, even Hayley had a good start. There was calmness today. We were not rushed. Good effort and the way Pez bowled, it was brilliant to watch. Today's match was very important for us to get going. From the time we came to Delhi, we had two tough losses and wanted to play good cricket today. For her (Perry) to come back and take those six wickets, I was just going 'wow'. We spoke about today being a quarter-final. We did not think about the scenarios, wanted to win and just qualify. Would not have been a good thing to qualify without winning this match, really happy we could do that.

Harmanpreet Kaur, Mumbai Indians captain: She bowled very well today. None of us took the responsibility to bat deep. We tried our best (with the ball). Unfortunately, we dropped some chances. Our bowlers were giving their 100% but there were not enough runs on the board. We did not bat according to how she was bowling. But she (Perry) bowled really well, we should give credit to them. Today's game will teach us a lot of things. We will sit together and see how we make our plans for the next game.

Richa Ghosh: (On her approach) I wanted to take my time before going for my shots. When I was keeping, I saw the pitch was low and slow. (On the heartbreak in the last match) Everyone was sad but everyone cheered me up. We knew we still had a game to play and that we would qualify if we won it. (On Perry's spell) It was superb. It was really great.

10:26pm RCB do it at a canter in the end. Perry, like she was in the first innings, was there all the way. Ghosh, having been accorded an early reprieve, grew into her knock and finishes with 36 off 28. Before that, though, there was a wobble, with Mandhana, Molineux and Devine perishing cheaply.

At that point, the defending champions would have felt they were in the game. The drop of Ghosh, though, proved decisive, and that seemed to tilt the scales completely in RCB's favour. No more calculations needed for them now, and they can rest up before the Eliminator on Friday (most likely against this very opposition).

A very bad day at the office for MI. They did not help themselves in the field either. Their bowlers did give them a sniff (albeit very briefly) and they will be happy with the fight shown, especially at the start. But that was about it, and that perhaps sums up just how pear-shaped this evening went for them.

14.6
4
Vastrakar to Perry, FOUR, Perry does it, rather fittingly, and RCB make the playoffs of the WPL! The disappointment of last season gives way to delight of 2024, and they have been full value for it tonight! In the slot on off stump. Perry plants her front foot and smacks it over mid on to seal the deal!

Just three needed now. Can she finish it this over?

14.5
2
Vastrakar to Perry, 2 runs, back of a length on leg stump. Perry glances it down to fine leg and has enough time to race back for two
14.4
2
Vastrakar to Perry, 2 runs, full and wide outside off. Perry throws her hands at it and laces her square drive. Sajana tears across to her left on the fence and saves two via a sprawling dive
14.3
0
Vastrakar to Perry, no run, full on off. Perry gets forward and pokes it towards short extra cover

Just seven needed now

14.2
1
Vastrakar to Ghosh, 1 run, back of a length on off. Ghosh jams it off the inside edge into her pads. The ball deflects away into the off side, allowing a single
14.1
6
Vastrakar to Ghosh, SIX, what a shot! Half-tracker outside off that sits up to be hit. Ghosh lines it up and pummels it over long on!

RCB Women 2nd innings Partnerships

WktRunsPlayers
1st22S MandhanaS Molineux
2nd3EA PerryS Mandhana
3rd14SFM DevineEA Perry
4th76EA PerryRM Ghosh