Gujarat owed it to opener Sophia Dunkley‘s 65 off simply 28 balls, together with the match’s quickest half-century in 18 balls, and Harleen Deol’s 67 off 45 to place up a mammoth 201/7 at the board.
Dunkley’s blazing knock incorporated 11 fours and three sixes, whilst Deol hit 9 fours and a six.
Sophine Devine (66 off 45) and Heather Knight (30 off 11) then virtually took RCB house prior to finishing up 11 runs brief at 190/6.
“Amazing, incredible, superb effort from the girls, very proud of them. It (blow to finger) will be fine. Defending here in CCI is never easy, I know it was a tough game, a high scoring game. We lived up to the game,” stated Rana all over the post-match presentation rite.
With the ball, Ashleigh Gardner picked 3/32 whilst Annabel Sutherland, regardless of being pricey, controlled to shield 24 runs off the overall over to finally end up with 2/56 and provides Gujarat their first two issues.
“We thought of giving her (Annabel) a few overs because she bowls good wide yorkers. I think we are a balanced team, we have good batters and we have a good combination of players. It’s something we were looking for from the first win. and now we have got it (the win),” added Sneh.
RCB captain Smriti Mandhana admitted that the bowlers gave away extra runs than the anticipated margins.
“I think I’d say even in our bowling, we gave away 10-15 runs more than what we expected to. There were two-three overs where we conceded a lot, and not 6-7 runs. We would have gotten better (with the target) otherwise. It’s a good outfield, one end is really short, that did play with few of our bowlers’ in mind, we are trying to work on it,” stated Mandhana.
This was once the 3rd instantly loss for RCB, whilst Gujarat ended their two-match shedding run.
(With company inputs)