Delhi Capitals Women take on RCB Women in the first leg of WPL 2024 on Sunday, March 10. They are still unbeaten against RCB in WPL history. Delhi won both games last season and won the highest-scoring encounter by 25 runs earlier this season.
Delhi Capitals women, after their defeat in the campaign opener against Mumbai Indians, won their next four games. Their winning streak was ended by UP Warriorz, who won against the DC women by a narrow margin of 1 run in a close game.
Meg Lanning has led this Delhi team wonderfully bringing out the best in every player. Her association with Shafali Varma has been rock solid at the top. Jemimah Rodrigues stood out in the last game. Veterans Marizanne Kapp, Jess Jonassen and Shikha Pandey have also been at their best.
This is Delhi’s third home game and they are looking to make it two out of three at home. It will be interesting to see how they deal with the low bounce of the court against a different opponent.
Delhi capitulated after Lanning’s wicket with a score of 93 in the last match. From 93/3 in the 14th over, Delhi Capitals were bowled out for 137 in the 20th over. RCB will be wary of the possible collapse of DC’s batting in the next game.
Delhi Capitals Women Playing 11 vs RCB Women – WPL 2024, Match 17
Meg Lanning (C)
Lanning will open the batting. He has been a pillar at the top of his franchise. Lanning has scored the most runs in WPL history. He is closing in on 650 runs in the tournament.
Shafali Varma
Shafali will open the batting with Lanning. She and Smriti are the only two batters with more than 10 sixes in this year’s WPL. The batter will look to give her team another good start.
Alicia Capsey
Capsey has been the perfect complement for his first games at the top. She has anchored the innings beautifully and set it up for the middle-order batsmen to take advantage of. She has scored over 160 runs and taken two wickets this season.
Jemimah Rodrigues
Rodrigues played a brilliant innings against Mumbai Indians women scoring 69 in just 33 balls to help his team achieve a big score against them. She is also brilliant on the field, which is an asset to any team. She has so far scored more than 100 runs this year.
Marianne Kapp
Kapp, the South African all-rounder, has taken 8 wickets in four games. She has the ball to go off the rails every time she enters the bowl. The veteran will get another chance to extend her tally against RCB.
Jess Jonassen
Jonassen, the left-arm spinner, is the highest wicket-taker in the series so far with nine scalps in just three games. He will face Smriti Mandhana, who will try to take the wicket of him early in the innings.
Taniya Bhatia (WK)
Taniya Bhatis is the specialist wicketkeeper-batsman for Delhi Capitals. So far in the WPL she has played 14 matches and has scored only five with the bat. She hasn’t had too many opportunities with the bat. This year she has not yet batted in the tournament.
Arundhati Reddy
Reddy, the pacer, has taken six wickets in this year’s WPL. She, along with Shikha Pandey and Titas Sadhu, form the Indian trio that Delhi has largely depended on.
Shikha Pandey
Pandey will be the second pacer in the lineup. He has taken 14 wickets in the WPL so far. He took 10 last season and has taken four so far this season at an economy rate of 7.88.
Radha Yadav
Radha is the specialist in turning the left arm at the side. She has taken 8 wickets in the tournament so far, 8 wickets in this year’s WPL. She has been the favorite bowler of her captain Meg Lanning.
Titas Sadhu
Sadhu concludes Delhi Capitals’ probable XI against RCB Women. Titas Sadhu was bought for INR 25 lakh by Delhi Capitals in the inaugural WPL auction, but she did not play any match last year. So far this year, she has played three.
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