NEW DELHI: Sophie Ecclestone placed on an unimaginable all-around efficiency to provide UP Warriorz an exhilarating victory over Royal Challengers Bengaluru within the first-ever Tremendous Over of the Ladies’s Premier League in Bengaluru on Monday
Despatched into bat Ellyse Perry and Danni Wyatt-Hodge shone brilliantly, main RCB to 180 for six.
Whereas opener Wyatt-Hodge made 57, Perry hammered an undefeated 90 off 56 balls.
Nevertheless, Ecclestone demonstrated her batting prowess by scoring 33 off 19 balls to help UP, recording economical figures of 4-0-29-0. After a spectacular comeback, Warriorz tied the match and superior to the Tremendous Over, the place they prevailed.
In Kim Garth’s tremendous over, UP Warriorz solely scored eight runs.
Richa Ghosh and RCB captain Smriti Mandhana then had the duty of chasing down the nine-run mark in opposition to Ecclestone, however the English cricketer prevailed with solely 4 runs given up.
Earlier, RCB misplaced Mandhana as she was bowled by Deepti Sharma within the fourth over.
Perry then teamed up with Wyatt-Hodge, and the 2 of them scored 94 runs in 65 balls for the second wicket.
Perry stored the RCB going as Richa Ghosh (8), Kanika Ahuja (5), and Georgia Wareham (8) did not contribute.
For UP Warriorz, Tahlia McGrath (1/30), Chinelle Henry (1/34) and Deepti (1/42) every claimed a wicket.
UP Warriorz by no means gained traction in chasing the goal, dropping wickets often.
Scoring 30 runs between them in 2.5 overs, openers Kiran Navgire (24) and Dinesh Vrinda (14) obtained off to a powerful begin earlier than each departed in fast succession.
The primary to go away was Navgire, who was bowled by Renuka Singh. Vrinda tried to hit a fullish supply over the circle however was caught by Mandhana at mid-off. Renuka returned an over later to dismiss her.
Off-spinner Sneh Rana took two wickets in a row, of Tahila McGrath and UP Warriorz captain Deepti Sharma (25 off 13).
Richa Ghosh stumped McGrath and Ghosh fantastically caught Deepti behind the stumps.
With an excellent 25-ball 31 that featured 4 boundaries Shweta Sehrawat did her finest to maintain UP Warriorz within the hunt however was caught by Ghosh because the batter tried to fish a large leg stump supply.
With figures of three/27, Rana was the very best bowler for the RCB, whereas Kim Garth (2/40) and Renuka Singh (2/36) every claimed two wickets.
Perry additionally made a contribution with the ball following her heroics with the bat.
Ecclestone struck Renuka for 2 straight sixes and a boundary to scale back the equation to 2 off 2 with 18 wanted off the final over.
The younger Kranti Goud was left to finish the chase after Ecclestone took a single. Nevertheless, Ghosh ran out Ecclestone, and UP Warriorz superior to the Tremendous Over for the primary time in WPL historical past after ending at 180 all out.
