RCB won the WPL 2024 title: Social media has been flooded with reactions as Royal Challengers Bangalore won the Women's Premier League 2024 title. Many former cricketers and current legends of the game have taken to social media to congratulate the team and captain Smriti Mandhana for the victory. Virat Kohli has used a special name for the RCB women's team. At the same time, everyone from Chris Gayle to Virender Sehwag has congratulated this franchise for ending the title drought.
After the victory of RCB, Sachin Tendulkar, Harbhajan Singh and Shikhar Dhawan have also congratulated the team. Sachin Tendulkar reaction on RCB win - Congratulations to RCB women's team for winning the Women's Premier League title. Women's cricket is really on the rise in India. At the same time, Harbhajan reaction on RCB win - RCB women's team has done it. Now will the boys be able to repeat the title win? All eyes will be on Virat and Maxwell.
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Virat Kohli reaction on RCB win: Virat Kohli has shared the story on Instagram and called the team 'Superwomen'. At the same time, he talked to Mandhana and the rest of the team members on video call and also congratulated them.
National Cricket Academy Director VVS Laxman wrote on Twitter - Many congratulations to RCB on becoming the worthy winner of WPL. It was great to see the crowd support throughout and the tournament was amazing. At the same time, former Indian opener Sehwag wrote – Many congratulations to RCB on winning the Women's Premier League title. This team showed great temperament in difficult circumstances and are worthy winners.
Talking about the match, Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) won the title by defeating Delhi Capitals by eight wickets in the final match of the Women's Premier League (WPL) on Sunday. Delhi won the toss and batted first and scored 113 runs in 18.3 overs. RCB easily achieved the target by losing two wickets in 19.3 overs. Delhi got a strong start, but after the first wicket fell at the score of 64, the entire team was all out for 49 runs.
Delhi's batsmen succumbed to Bangalore's spin bowling. Shefali Verma scored the highest 44 runs. Apart from this, Meg Lanning played an inning of 23 runs. At the same time, spinners took nine wickets for Bangalore and one wicket (Radha Yadav) fell in the form of run out. Shreyanka Patil took the maximum of four wickets. Whereas, Sophie Molineux got three wickets. Asha Shobhana took two wickets. For Bangalore, Captain Mandhana scored 31 runs and Sophie Divine scored 32 runs. Ellyse Perry remained unbeaten on 35 runs and Richa Ghosh remained unbeaten on 17 runs.
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