Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB-W) will face Delhi Capitals (DEL-W) in the second game of the Women’s Premier League 2023 on Sunday (March 5) at the Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai. India’s T20I vice-captain Smriti Mandhana will captain RCB. Mandhana was picked in the auction last month for INR 3.4 crores and became the most expensive player. Delhi Capitals will be led by Meg Lanning, who captained Australia to their sixth T20 World Cup title last month. They have picked Indian superstars like Jemimah Rodrigues and Shafali Verma. They are the only team that has picked a player from the associate teams and can field five overseas players in their playing 11 this season.
MATCH INFORMATION
Royal Challengers Bangalore Women vs Delhi Capitals Women, Match 2
Women’s Premier League, 5 Mar 2023, Sun, 3:30 PM IST, Mumbai
PITCH REPORT
The pitch is expected to remain balanced for this game, and the average first innings score in the last five T20 matches has been 177 runs. The pacers and spinners will likely find an equal amount of help from the pitch in this game. The team winning the toss might elect to bat.
PROBABLE PLAYING XI
Royal Challengers Bangalore Women
S Mandhana(C), DD Kasat, HC Knight, SS Pawar, SFM Devine, EA Perry, Kanika Ahuja, Richa Ghosh, Shreyanka Patil, Renuka Singh, ML Schutt
BENCH : Indrani Roy, D van Niekerk, EA Burns, Poonam Nanasaheb Khemnar, Preeti Bose, KR Zanzad
Delhi Capitals Women
JI Rodrigues, MM Lanning(C), Jasia Akhtar, Shafali Verma, Alice Capsey, Titas Sadhu, M Mani, M Kapp, T Bhatia, JL Jonassen, Poonam Yadav
BENCH : AD Mondal, L Harris, V Sneha Deepthi, S Pandey, Radha Yadav, T Norris, A Reddy
