WPL 2024 Delhi Capitals vs Gujarat Giants: Date, venue and time

Gujarat Giants will be looking to clinch their first win of the 2024 season on Sunday. So far, they've played three WPL matches, and lost three. (Image source: X/ @wplt20)

In a battle that will see two Australian captains at the helm, Meg Lanning’s Delhi Capitals will take on Beth Mooney’s Gujarat Giants in the 10th match of the Women’s Premier League (WPL) 2024. The fixture will be held at Bengaluru’s M Chinnaswamy Stadium on March 3, Sunday. The toss will take place at 7pm India time and the first ball is scheduled for 7:30pm.

WPL 2024 Delhi Capitals vs Gujarat Giants: Recent form

The Delhi Capitals have won two consecutive games after going down in the opening fixture of their 2024 season. The defeat to defending champions Mumbai Indians (by four wickets) last Friday was followed up by victories against the UP Warriorz (by 9 wickets) and the Royal Challengers Bangalore (by 25 runs).

The Gujarat Giants, meanwhile, have lost all three matches they have played so far: against the Warriorz (by six wickets), the Royal Challengers (by eight wickets) and Mumbai (by five wickets). The bottom-placed team in the inaugural edition, Giants currently occupy the last position on the points table, with their net run rate reading -1.995.

WPL 2024 Delhi Capitals vs Gujarat Giants: Players to watch

Marizanne Kapp, the South Africa allrounder, has set WPL 2024 alight, as was the case last season, too, with her sizzling performances with both bat and ball. She bagged back-to-back Player-of-the-Match Awards in the last two games, playing a vital role in the Capitals’ victories. Against the Royal Challengers, she made a brisk 32 with the bat before going on to take 2 for 35, including that of the big fish, captain Smriti Mandhana with a wily change of pace. Against the Warriorz, Kapp removed their top order inside the Powerplay and finished with stunning figures of 3 for 5.

At the moment, very little by way of cohesion of their batting or bowling unit is going the Giants’ way. But they will take heart from the fact that in their last match, they put up their highest total – 142 for 5 – of the season, thanks to a 50 stand from the middle-order pair of Phoebe Litchfield and Ashleigh Gardner. Opener Laura Wolvaardt’s 28 was also crucial in that tally. The Giants will hope all three of them click again and help the side notch up their first win of this edition.

WPL 2024 Delhi Capitals vs Gujarat Giants: 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

GG: Beth Mooney (c), Ashleigh Gardner, D. Hemalatha, Harleen Deol, Laura Wolvaardt, M.D. Shabnam, Sneh Rana, Tanuja Kanwar, Phoebe Litchfield, Meghna Singh, Trisha Poojitha, Sayali Satghare, Priya Mishra, Kathryn Bryce, Mannat Kashyap, Veda Krishnamurthy, Tarannum Pathan, Lea Tahuhu