WPL 2024 Delhi Capitals vs Royal Challengers Bangalore: Date, venue and time

Delhi Capitals captain Meg Lanning (left) will face Royal Challengers Bangalores Smriti Mandhana on Sunday evening.

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. The toss will take place at 7pm India time and the first ball is scheduled for 7.30 pm.

WPL 2024 Delhi Capitals vs Royal Challengers Bangalore: Playoffs race — what the teams need to do

The Capitals, currently placed second, will become the second team to qualify for the WPL 2024 playoffs if they win Sunday’s fixture against the Royal Challengers, with Harmanpreet Kaur’s Mumbai Indians having become the first team to book their knockouts berth with a thrilling win over the Gujarat Giants on Saturday.

A victory for the third-placed Royal Challengers over the Capitals, meanwhile, will take them to eight points and strengthen their net run rate as well as the chances to make the playoffs ahead of the UP Warriorz, who are breathing down their neck in the fourth place with six points and a game — against the out-of-the-playoffs-race Giants — to go.

WPL 2024 Delhi Capitals vs Royal Challengers Bangalore: Recent form and previous encounter

Four consecutive wins have been bookended by a loss each in the Capitals’ six matches so far, their most recent fixture having ended in an epic implosion that led to the UP Warriorz snatch an improbable one-run victory. The Royal Challengers themselves, too, are coming off a defeat, by a margin of 19 runs at the hands of the Giants.

The last time the two sides met, in Bengaluru, Capitals beat the Royal Challengers by 25 wickets, thanks to Marizanne Kapp’s 16-ball 32 and 2 for 35.

WPL 2024 Delhi Capitals vs Royal Challengers Bangalore: Players to watch out for

Jess Jonassen, the Australia and Capitals left-arm spinner, holds the Purple Cap for being the highest wicket-taker of the tournament so far with 10 wickets from four innings at an average of 9.50.

Smriti Mandhana, who has 243 runs from six innings at an average of 40.50 and is the second-highest run-scorer in this iteration of the WPL, will hold the key to the Royal Challengers efficacy with the bat in what, in the larger scheme of things, could prove to be a must-win game for the side.

WPL 2024 Delhi Capitals vs Royal Challengers Bangalore: Squads

DC: Meg Lanning (c), Jess Jonassen, Marizanne Kapp, Alice Capsey, Laura Harris, Jemimah Rodrigues, Shafali Verma, Shikha Pandey, Poonam Yadav, Radha Yadav, Arundhati Reddy, Taniya Bhatia, Minnu Mani, Sneha Deepthi, Titas Sadhu, Annabel Sutherland, Aparna Mondal, Aswani Kashyap

RCB: Smriti Mandhana (c), Asha Shobana, Disha Kasat, Ellyse Perry, Nadine de Klerk, Indrani Roy, Shradda Pokharkar, Renuka Singh, Richa Ghosh, Shreyanka Patil, Sophie Devine, Georgia Wareham, Kate Cross, Ekta Bisht, Shubha Satheesh, S Meghana, Simran Bahadur, Sophie Molineux

WPL 2024 Delhi Capitals vs Royal Challengers Bangalore: Coaches

DC: Jonathan Batty (England)

RCB: Luke Williams (Australia)