Ashleigh Gardner and Laura Wolvaardt’s half-centuries followed by splendid bowling performance by Gujarat Giants (GG) bowlers helped them defeat Delhi Capitals (DC) by 11 runs in the Women’s Premier League (WPL) match at Brabourne Stadium here on Thursday.
Gardner starred with both bat and ball for Gujarat as she slammed an unbeaten 51 and bagged two wickets conceding just 19 runs. For DC, Marizanne Kapp scored the highest at 36 while Arundhati Reddy and Alice Capsey scored 25 and 22 respectively. With this all-round performance, GG climbed back to No. 4 on the points table.
Defending a total of 147, Gujarat Giants got off to a fine start as Tanuja Kanwar provided her team with a big wicket of Shafali Verma in the second over of the game.
Alice Capsey and captain Meg Lanning gave their team a solid platform as the duo slammed Gujarat bowlers all around the ground. Sneh Rana then gave Delhi a big blow as she dismissed Lanning for 18 and Capsey was run out because of a poor call for a run.
Kim Garth then joined the wicket-taking party as she dismissed Jemimah Rodrigues for just one run. Marizanne Kapp hammered Mansi Joshi for 16 runs with the help of two boundaries. Delhi kept losing wickets at regular intervals.
Kapp continued her good form as she slammed Harleen Deol for 14 runs in the 13th over of the game.
Delhi lost the wicket of Taniya Bhatia for one and then the crucial wicket of Kapp due to confusion in the
middle and the well-set batter was run out.