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WPL 2024 round-up, Part 6: From Eliminator to WPL 2024 Final - stakes, highlights, key players & how RCB won
Before the Royal Challengers Bangalore beat the Delhi Capitals in the final of the Women's Premier League 2024, DC had won three of their previous four clashes across WPL 2023 and WPL 2024. The dark horse in WPL 2024, RCB pulled ahead with a remarkable win in the Eliminator and then the final on March 17.
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Complete guide to WPL 2024, Part 5: How Saima Thakor, Ellyse Perry, Smriti Mandhana won matches & hearts
Royal Challengers Bangalore lifted their first league trophy in 2024, thanks to Smriti Mandhana's team. En route, there were some twists, turns, and an Eliminator for the ages.
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WPL Complete Guide Part 4: Nail-biter finishes, hattricks & race to the big Eliminator on March 15
It's WPL history now: Deepti Sharma became the first Indian to take a WPL hat-trick in an edge-of-the-seat match between her side, the UP Warriorz, and the Delhi Capital on March 8. Delhi were all out in 19.5 overs in the low-scoring match. UP won by a single run!
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WPL 2024 complete guide part 3: Jemimah Rodrigues, Yastika Bhatia & other stars of Queendom
Major records made in Women's Premier League 2024 included the first player to reach 500 runs (Meg Lanning) and the first Indian pacer to get a four-for (Meghna Singh).
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Complete guide to Women's Premier League 2024, Part 2: Shreyanka Patil, Grace Harris, Kiran Navgire & other leaders in #Queendom
Women's Premier League: From S. Meghana to Grace Harris - Indian and international women cricketers who won matches in WPL 2024 with memorable performances.
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Complete guide to Women's Premier League 2024, Part 1: Who won league matches 1-6, how & key match winners
Women's Premier League 2024 - Week 1: There were some unlikely heroes in WPL 2024 and some staggering WPL 2024 victories. Royal Challengers Bangalore won the WPL 2024 title. But here's how things turned out from the opening match of WPL 2024 (DC vs MI) on February 23, to Match 6 (MI vs UP) on February 28.
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WPL 2024: Sophie Molineux, Shreyanka Patil, Asha Sobhana's Queendom worthy bowling helped RCB win WPL title
WPL 2024 round-up: While the Delhi Capitals consistently notched up victories and high net run rate to qualify directly for the final, RCB lost half their league matches and just about made it to the WPL Eliminator against the Mumbai Indians. Fair to say, RCB peaked at just the right time, to clinch their maiden WPL title!
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WPL 2024 final pitch report: Captains Meg Lanning, Smriti Mandhana on boundary size, bounce
Arun Jaitley Stadium, pitch No. 5: Batters in the WPL 2024 final can find the boundary at 63-65 metres in the ‘V’ in front from the Red Fort end for right-hand batters, with the square boundaries measuring 55 metres and the ‘V’ behind square measuring between 43 to 49 metres.
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In pictures | WPL 2024 final: Smriti Mandhana & RCB's shot at WPL glory against Delhi Capitals
WPL 2024 finalist RCB's captain and batter Smriti Mandhana is not new to leadership in top-tier cricket. Mandhana, 27, led her state side Maharashtra’s senior team in domestic cricket from teenage, and serves as India vice-captain now. Mandhana also led one of the sides in the now-defunct Women’s T20 Challenge, the Trailblazers. What you need to know about Smriti Mandhana's WPL stats and leadership cred.
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WPL 2024 final: What Delhi Capitals captain Meg Lanning said to RCB skipper Smriti Mandhana
"That was an amazing thing Delhi Capitals captain Meg Lanning did, and it really taught me how" to look out for players from other teams if they’re not doing well, Smriti Mandhana, RCB captain, said ahead of the WPL 2024 final in Delhi. Here's what she meant:
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WPL 2024 final: Will Smriti Mandhana's RCB Women go one better than Anil Kumble's 2009 Royal Challengers Bangalore IPL team?
WPL 2024 finalists Royal Challengers Bangalore Women in 2024 are exactly where the RCB men's team was in 2009. Here's captain Smriti Mandhana's take ahead of the big final in Delhi on March 17.
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WPL 2024: RCB vs MI - Allrounder Ellyse Perry is in a league of her own
Women's Premier League 2024: “Making the (WPL) finals was a huge priority for us (RCB) and we started playing some good cricket at the right time... We’ve played eight games, we’ve got a good feel on what our roles are and how we can contribute to the team,” Ellyse Perry said in a press conference organised by RCB Media.
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WPL 2024 Eliminator - Yastika Bhatia, Ellyse Perry & other players to watch in MI vs RCB eliminator
WPL 2024 Eliminator | Mumbai Indians (MI) vs Royal Challenges Bangalore (RCB) head-to-head record in WPL: MI and RCB have played just four games across WPL 2023 and WPL 2024. Harmanpreet Kaur’s MI has won 75 percent of those matches.
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WPL 2024 Eliminator - Mumbai Indians vs Royal Challenges Bangalore: Date, time, and how to watch
Women's Premier League 2024: Harmanpreet Kaur’s Mumbai Indians (MI) take on Smriti Mandhana’s Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) on Friday, March 15, in the eliminator match to decide who will play in the WPL 2024 final against the Delhi Capitals.
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WPL 2024: Ellyse Perry’s historic 6 for 15 sends RCB into WPL knockouts
Ellyse Perry, 33, returned spectacular figures of 6 for 15 from her allocated four overs, including 18 dots, to set up a decisive seven-wicket win for Royal Challengers Bangalore in New Delhi that sent them through to the playoffs.
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WPL 2024: Mandhana's RCB eye playoffs berth, Harmanpreet's Mumbai Indians top spot
The Royal Challengers Bangalore are coming off a heartbreaking one-run defeat to the Delhi Capitals on Sunday that also saw the highest attendance, 23,453, so far in the New Delhi leg of WPL 2024.
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WPL 2024: Meet Saima Thakor, who dismissed Harmanpreet Kaur, Shafali Verma, Jemimah Rodrigues
Bought by UP Warriorz at her base price of Rs 10 lakh at the WPL 2024 auction in December last year, Thakor made her Women's Premier League debut against Royal Challengers Bangalore on February 24.
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WPL 2024 | Beth Mooney's Gujarat Giants vs Alyssa Healy's UP Warriorz: Date, venue and time
In the previous encounter between the two sides, in Bengaluru, the Warriorz cruised to a 6-wicket win, courtesy a 33-ball 60 from the big-hitting Grace Harris and a three-for from left-arm-spinner Sophie Ecclestone.
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WPL 2024: RCB’s playoffs chances – ‘Our destiny is in our own hands,’ says coach Luke Williams
The Royal Challengers Bangalore, who lost their last match by 19 runs to the Gujarat Giants on Wednesday, take the field next on Sunday, against the Delhi Capitals, who finished runners-up last year and haven’t lost a match this season since their opening game.
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WPL 2024: How Grace Harris scripted UP Warriorz’s heist against Delhi Capitals
Australia batting allrounder Grace Harris, who was tasked with defending 10 runs off the last over by UP Warriorz captain Alyssa Healy against the table-leading Delhi Capitals on Friday night, defended 6, 2, W, W, W as Warriorz scripted an unlikely one-run win defending a below-par 138 with one ball remaining.
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Deepti Sharma creates history as first Indian to take WPL hat-trick
UP Warriorz's Deepti Sharma first bowled Delhi Capitals captain Meg Lanning and then struck twice, bowling Annabel Sutherland and getting Arundhati Reddy caught in Delhi on Friday.
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WPL 2024 Delhi Capitals vs Royal Challengers Bangalore: Date, venue and time
The high-stakes 17th match of the Women’s Premier League (WPL) 2024 will see the Meg Lanning’s Delhi Capitals lock horns with Smriti Mandhana’s Royal Challenges Bangalore at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in New Delhi on Sunday at 7pm.
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WPL 2024 match on March 9 | Gujarat Giants vs Mumbai Indians: venue, time, players to watch
Women's Premier League 2024: In match 16 out of 22, the Mumbai Indians will look to clinch the second-place spot in the WPL play-offs that will decide which two teams go into the WPL final on March 17.
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Neeraj Chopra on his Paris Olympics prep: 'The josh is unbelievable'
Neeraj Chopra will defend his Olympics gold in javelin at the Paris Summer Olympics (July 26 - August 11). In training in Turkey, Chopra said: “This is the best I have felt in a long time.”
