Royal Challengers Bangalore Women dethrone Mumbai Indians in WPL 2024 points table

Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) have started the Women's Premier League (WPL) 2024 with two successive wins. On Tuesday 27 February at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru, they defeated the Gujarat Giants (GG) by 8 wickets.

It was RCB's second win of the season and saw them dethrone Mumbai Indians at the top of the points table on net run-rate. MI has also won two matches.

Smriti Mandhana won the toss, opting for the first strike. The home side restricted the Giants to 107/7 in their 20 overs. Gujarat were found wanting in the middle overs as they failed to score runs at a brisk pace.

Renuka Singh, named player of the match, removed Beth Mooney and Phoebe Litchfield. From her 4 overs, she conceded 14 runs.

Wareham picked up the wicket of Ash Gardner while Sophie Molineux took figures of 4-0-25-3.

Dayalan Hemalatha was the top scorer for the Giants with 31 off 25 overs.

RCB's Smriti Mandhana shines

With 45 balls to spare, the Bangalore-based franchise completed the chase. RCB scored 47 runs in the powerplay. Mandhana scored 43 runs off 27 balls, hitting 8 fours and 1 six. She was sent back to the pavilion by Tanuja Kanwar, but by that time it was too late for her.

Sabbhineni Meghana was unbeaten on 36 off 28 balls, scoring a half-century against UP Warriorz. She has scored 2000 runs in T20 cricket.

Ellyse Perry hit 4 fours and finished on 23 not out off 14 balls.

RCB Women are favourites to progress to the knockout stage. They have a net run rate of +1.665 from 2 matches.