Delhi Capitals reaped the rewards of investing in an affiliate participant in its Women’s Premier League marketing campaign opener in opposition to Royal Challengers Bangalore on the Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai on Sunday.
American pacer Tara Norris had a debut to recollect as she took 5 wickets in her first sport for the Capitals to derail what was wanting like a snug run chase for RCB.
The 24-year-old took the wickets of Ellyse Perry, Disha Kasat, Richa Ghosh and Kanika Ahuja – on consecutive deliveries – and Heather Knight to snuff out the momentum from the RCB chase.
While solely 4 abroad gamers are allowed within the closing eleven within the males’s Indian Premier League (IPL), the ladies’s match has a further rule which states: “A team will be allowed to have a maximum of five overseas players, four of whom may come from Full Member nations and the fifth from an Associate Member nation.”
Interestingly, no different crew picked an Associate participant throughout the public sale, which suggests solely DC will benefit from the benefit of fielding 5 foreigners throughout a match all through WPL 2023 supplied the facet goes forward with Norris within the eleven.
Source: sportstar.thehindu.com