Delhi Capitals 163 for 8 (Lanning 55, Meghna 4-37) beat Gujarat Giants 138 for 8 (Gardner 40, Radha 3-20, Jonassen 3-22) by 25 runs
Jonassen will get the job finished
Phoebe Litchfield helped herself to 11 runs off Sadhu’s second over. Then three fours in 4 balls to Mooney and Litchfield off Pandey had Giants cruising in the fourth over. However Jonassen entered the assault and pinned Mooney on the entrance pad adjoining to the stumps and Giants had to attempt and rebuild. Jonassen struck once more, nonetheless, when Litchfield spooned one straight to mid-off and the momentum swung firmly in direction of Capitals.
Radha, at deep midwicket, put down a catch off Veda Krishnamurthy, on 6, however crucially Giants had been effectively behind on 41 for 3 at the finish of the powerplay. After seven overs, they’d already confronted 25 dot balls. Gardner reduce free with a 78m six and 4 off Arundhati Reddy in order that at the midway level of the innings Giants had been 72 for 4, needing 92 extra. Jonassen returned to the assault with Giants needing 60 from six overs and she all however ended their hopes, placing the ball on a size outdoors off-stump as Gardner superior, swung and missed. Taniya Bhatia whipped off the bails with Gardner too far down the observe and Giants too far behind.
Meghna shines big-time for Giants
Shafali Verma struck the first ball she confronted, from Tanuja Kanwar, by means of sq. leg for 4 with impeccable timing and two balls later lofted a six again over the bowler’s head. To make issues worse for Giants, Kanwar dropped a return catch off Shafali at the finish of the over, which price 12 runs there and then, and who was to know what number of extra at that time. Because it turned out, Shafali added simply three extra earlier than Meghna had her comfortably caught by Wolvaardt at sq. leg. Lanning and Capsey settled right into a rhythm and took Capitals to 51 for 1 by the finish of the powerplay, however Meghna struck once more with the essential wicket of Capsey, who was in good type with scores of 75 and 46 heading into the match. Meghna ended Capsey’s newest innings on 27 with a tempter outdoors off stump, sliced to Kanwar at backward level, and she wasn’t finished but.
That despatched Capitals into their shell as 19 deliveries got here and went with out a boundary. Lanning broke that by thumping debutant Tarannum Pathan over long-off for a most and from there she appeared busy as soon as extra. Lanning ought to have been gone for 30 when she spooned a Mannat Kashyap supply straight to mid-off, the place Kathryn Bryce missed a sitter. Gardner had conceded 11 runs off her first over and her second went for 13 as Lanning moved inside one clear strike of her fifty. She acquired there with an authoritative jab to the proper of midwicket which was so effectively hit it evaded Gardner’s finest efforts to cease it simply inside the rope at deep midwicket. One other 4 over cowl got here off the subsequent ball but it surely was Lanning’s anguish and Meghna’s pleasure when D Hemalatha moved to her left and held on at cowl level to cease the Capitals skipper in full circulate after her second half-century of the marketing campaign.
