WPL 2024: All-round show helps Delhi Capitals thrash UP Warriorz by nine wickets for season’s first win

When Shafali Verma will get going, it’s exhausting to cease her. She was at her fluent greatest towards UP Warriorz, her unbeaten 43-ball 64 (6×4, 4×6) after a formidable bowling present by Marizanne Kapp (4-1-5-3) and Radha Yadav (4-0-20-4) powering Delhi Capitals to a nine-wicket win on the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium on Monday.

Skipper Meg Lanning and Shafali placed on 119 for the opening wicket as Capitals took simply 14.3 overs to seal their first win of WPL 2024 after proscribing Warriorz to 119 for 9.

DC vs UPW, WPL 2024: As it occurred

Shafali was at her attribute aggressive greatest, with energy and timing the highlights of her innings. She stepped out to smash Deepti Sharma over the long-on boundary to boost her half-century off 36 deliveries.

Shafali Verma and Meg Lanning stitched a 119-run stand for the primary wicket to assist DC cruise to a win
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Lanning, who mentioned on the post-match interplay that she was glad to observe the Shafali present from the opposite finish, performed second fiddle and scored runs with customary class.

Jemimah Rodrigues hit the successful run after Lanning, in quest of a glory shot, misplaced her wicket to Sophie Ecclestone.

Earlier, the 34-year-old Kapp ripped by way of the top-order. The South African despatched again Vrinda Dinesh, Tahlia McGrath and Alyssa Healy by the fifth over of the Warriorz innings.

Vrinda was out for a 5 ball duck. McGrath was castled and Kapp picked Healy in the identical over, ending with the joint-most economical spell of WPL (Hayley Matthews, MI vs DC, 2023).

Birthday lady Shweta Sehrawat (45, 42b, 5×4, 1×6) waged a lone battle, conserving the scoreboard ticking and giving Warriorz one thing to defend after being 40 for 4 on the midway mark. Radha then cleaned up the lower-order earlier than Shafali and Lanning took flight for Capitals.