🏏WPL 2024: Match 4: Delhi Capitals W vs UP Warriorz W🏏

🏏WPL 2024: Match 4: Delhi Capitals W vs UP Warriors W at Bengaluru on 26/02/2024 at 7:30PM IST🏏

The second season of the Women’s Premier League is set to host UP Warriorz clashing against Delhi Capitals Women. Both sides are coming off heart breaking losses, and as the tournament moves ahead, both sides will try to make a stronger comeback and win games to open their account. Warriors clashed against RCB-W in their opening fixture and fell short by 2 runs, whereas Delhi Capitals Women kicked off the brand new season of the WPL by clashing against reigning champions Mumbai but failed to secure a win. 

In the past matches that they played, DC-W captain Meg Lanning failed to come on top of the toss war against rival captain Harmanpreet Kaur. Warriorz skipper Alyssa Healy, on the flip side, managed to win the toss over RCB skipper Smriti Mandhana. Considering the odds, we think Healy would continue the toss-winning run over Lanning. 

As mentioned, both the teams started their WPL 2024 season with a disheartening loss, suffering a last-ball defeat in their respective campaign openers. Alyssa Healy, the skipper of the UPW has been a great captain so far, but the side could never manage to go beyond the finishing line against Delhi. However, they will hope for a change this season. Winning both the matches against UPW, DCW would aim for another win to continue their momentum. Hence, we think DC are likely to emerge victorious in the next game.

PITCH REPORT

The track at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium is expected to be balanced in nature. Spinners, in particular, would dominate the proceedings as the game progresses forward but the batters would be looking forward to exploiting the shorter boundaries to amass huge runs. Teams prefer to bowl first here after winning the toss with the average first innings score being 115.

UP Warriorz Women vs Delhi Capitals Women Weather Forecast

The skies will be partly cloudy during the WPL 2024 clash between UPW and DC. The temperature is expected to be in the range of 27 degrees Celsius, and there is no chance of rain during the match hours at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium.

As mentioned, both the teams started their WPL 2024 season with a disheartening loss, suffering a last-ball defeat in their respective campaign openers. Alyssa Healy, the skipper of the UPW has been a great captain so far, but the side could never manage to go beyond the finishing line against Delhi. However, they will hope for a change this season. Winning both the matches against UPW, DCW would aim for another win to continue their momentum. Hence, we think DC are likely to emerge victorious in the next game.

PROBABLE PLAYING XI

UP Warriorz

Alyssa Healy (C), Vrinda Dinesh, TM McGrath, GM Harris, Shweta Sehrawat, K P Navgire, Poonam Nanasaheb Khemnar, DB Sharma, S Ecclestone, Saima Thakor, RS Gayakwad

Delhi Capitals Women

MM Lanning (C), Shafali Verma, Alice Capsey, JI Rodrigues, M Kapp, A Sutherland, A Reddy, M Mani, T Bhatia (wk), Radha Yadav, S Pandey

HEAD TO HEAD - LAST 2 MATCHES

DC Women won by 5 wickets (with 13 balls remaining), 22-Mar-2023

DC Women won by 42 runs, 08-Mar-2023

Capitals ftw

Batters To Watch(recent stats)

Meg Lanning,  DC-W

10 M • 376 Runs • 47 Avg • 137.72 SR

Shafali Verma,  DC-W

10 M • 253 Runs • 28.11 Avg • 175.69 SR

Tahlia McGrath,  UPW-W

10 M • 324 Runs • 46.29 Avg • 155.02 SR

Grace Harris,  UPW-W

7 M • 268 Runs • 53.6 Avg • 165.43 SR

Bowlers To Watch(recent stats)

Shikha Pandey,  DC-W

10 M • 11 Wkts • 6.75 Econ • 19.63 SR

Marizanne Kapp,  DC-W

10 M • 10 Wkts • 5.95 Econ • 24 SR

Sophie Ecclestone,  UPW-W

10 M • 17 Wkts • 6.61 Econ • 13.94 SR

Deepti Sharma,  UPW-W

10 M • 10 Wkts • 8.78 Econ • 22.7 SR

Squads:

UP Warriorz Squad: Alyssa Healy(w/c), Vrinda Dinesh, Tahlia McGrath, Grace Harris, Shweta Sehrawat, Kiran Navgire, Deepti Sharma, Sophie Ecclestone, Poonam Khemnar, Rajeshwari Gayakwad, Saima Thakor, Anjali Sarvani, Parshavi Chopra, Chamari Athapaththu, Laxmi Yadav, Danielle Wyatt, Soppadhandi Yashasri, Gouher Sultana

Delhi Capitals Women Squad: Meg Lanning(c), Shafali Verma, Alice Capsey, Jemimah Rodrigues, Marizanne Kapp, Annabel Sutherland, Arundhati Reddy, Minnu Mani, Taniya Bhatia(w), Radha Yadav, Shikha Pandey, Poonam Yadav, Titas Sadhu, Jess Jonassen, Laura Harris, Ashwani Kumari, Aparna Mondal, Sneha Deepthi

WPL 2024: 3 milestones that could be broken in today’s UPW vs DC match

1 Alice Capsey can go past Harmanpreet Kaur to be the highest scorer in WPL 2024

Delhi Capitals all-rounder Alice Capsey had an excellent start to her WPL 2024 campaign. The 19-year-old smashed a swashbuckling 75 runs off just 53 balls at a strike rate of 141.50.

She is just 26 runs short of leapfrogging Mumbai Indians skipper Harmanpreet Kaur as the top-scorer of the season. Given the form Capsey is in, she has a very good chance of going past Harmanpreet on Monday night.

2 Meg Lanning can go past Harmanpreet Kaur as the highest scorer in WPL history

Mumbai Indians skipper Harmanpreet Kaur eclipsed Meg Lanning to be the highest run-scorer in the tournament on Sunday with an unbeaten 46-run knock against Gujarat Giants. The right-handed batter currently has 382 runs from 12 matches at an average of 47.75.

Lanning, who will be in action on Monday, has an excellent chance of reclaiming her position. She needs only seven runs to displace Harmanpreet from the top spot on the list of highest run-scorers in the tournament's history. The former Australian skipper has amassed 376 runs from 10 games, including two half-centuries.

3 Alice Capsey can go past Richa Ghosh on the list of most boundaries

Royal Challengers Bangalore wicketkeeper-batter Richa Ghosh was in song during her team's game against UP Warriorz. She struck 12 boundaries during her 62-run knock. Richa is currently the batter with the most boundaries in the season.

Alice Capsey, who struck eight boundaries and three sixes during her 75-run knock, has a very good chance of leapfrogging Richa on Monday. Capsey needs to hit five boundaries on Monday to go past Richa's tally of 12.

All done Madhu.  Will finish watching a web series and call it a day.

Cheers..