royal challengers Bangalore beat delhi Capitals by 8 wickets to win the Women's Premier League Final. royal challengers Bangalore Became the champion Of WPL 2024. The final of the second Women's Premier League series was held today. In this match, royal challengers Bangalore and delhi Capitals clashed. While the delhi team batted first and were all out for 113 runs, the RCB team reached the target in the last over won the match, and clinched the trophy. Shafali Verma's 44 was a threat in the powerplay for delhi, but RCB's Sophie Molyneux took three wickets in one over to turn the game around. Subsequently, Shreyanka Patil took four wickets to seal the victory for the amazing RCB team. The Bengaluru team, who were early in the batting, played very patiently and reached the target. Sophie Devine - and Smriti Mandana combined for 49 runs. Ellis Perry, who came next, maintained the same composure as Mandana. Mandana was bowled out for 31 runs as Richa Ghosh struck a boundary in the third ball of the last over to clinch the trophy.
With this, RCB won their first trophy. RCB kisses the trophy for the first time in the history of IPL and WPL. Having competed in 16 IPL series, 3 Champions League series, and two Women's Premier League series, winning this first trophy sent its fans into celebration. royal challengers Bangalore, who did not even qualify for the playoffs last year, finished fourth.
This time, despite playing ups and downs from the beginning, they showed an excellent performance towards the trophy as they won the league match against the mumbai team and defeated the same mumbai team in the playoff eliminator. All-rounder Ellis Perry battled through tough times for RCB and stood till the end to win the trophy. Ellis Perry also bagged the Orange Cap, awarded to the highest run-scorer in the series. Likewise, RCB's young all-rounder Shreyanka Patil especially took the most wickets in the series and bagged the Purple Cap.
Similarly, this is the first time in the history of IPL and WPL that the champion team won the Orange Cap and Purple Cap respectively. Also, RCB has never beaten delhi in the history of WPL. RCB won this final for the first time and registered a great victory.
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