WPL 2023: Sophie Devine played the biggest innings of the Women’s Premier League, hitting 8 sixes and 9 fours, RCB won by 8 wickets
WPL 2023: Sophie Devine played the biggest innings of Women’s Premier League 2023 and took her team to an 8-wicket win.
In the stormy batting of RCB batsman Sophie Devine, the team of Gujarat Giants was completely blown away and it was defeated by RCB by 8 wickets in the 16th league match of the Women’s Premier League. The Gujarat team, batting first in this match, scored a big score of 188 runs for 4 wickets in 20 overs on the basis of Wolwart’s innings of 68 runs.
RCB had a big target to win, but thanks to Sophie’s innings of 99 runs, RCB won the match by 8 wickets by scoring 189 runs in 2 wickets in 15.3 overs. Sophie was adjudged player of the match for her best innings. This was RCB’s second win in this league and with this the team got 4 points. RCB is now at number four in the points table while Gujarat team is at the lowest position i.e. at number five with 4 points.
Sophie Devine played the biggest innings of the league
Chasing the target of 189 runs, the batsmen of the RCB team started putting the class of Gujarat bowlers from the very beginning. Captain Smriti Mandhana and Sophie had a strong partnership of 125 runs for the first wicket. After this Mandhana was dismissed after scoring 37 runs in 31 balls. Even after this, Sophie’s stormy style continued and when she was out, the team’s score had reached 157 runs.
Sophie missed the first century of this league by just one run, but she scored 99 runs in 36 balls with the help of 8 sixes and 9 fours. After this, Alice Perry scored 19 runs and Heather Knight scored an unbeaten inning of 22 runs to give the team victory. Sophie completed her half-century off just 20 balls in the run chase.
Wolvaardt scored a half-century for Gujarat
Gujarat’s batting was also good in the first innings and this team also scored 188 runs for 4 wickets in 20 overs. Wolwart, playing the biggest innings for this team, scored 68 runs in 42 balls with the help of 2 sixes and 9 fours. Apart from this, Dunkley scored 16 runs, Meghna scored 31 runs, Gardner scored 41 runs, while Hemlata scored 16 runs and Harleen Deol remained unbeaten on 12 runs.
