Saturday , November 23 2024

Who will win on the Delhi pitch, know what decision the captain will take in the final

Royal Challengers Bangalore and Delhi Capitals will meet in the final of the Women's Premier League 2024 on March 17 at the Arun Jaitley Stadium. Delhi Capitals topped the league stage with six wins from eight matches and made it to the final for the second consecutive time, while Royal Challengers Bangalore reached the WPL final for the first time after defeating defending champions Mumbai Indians in an eliminator match.

head to head record

Meg Lanning-led Delhi have registered four wins in their last four matches against Smriti Mandhana's RCB. While chasing 181 runs against Delhi on March 10 in this league, Bangalore missed by just one run, but then made a strong comeback with two consecutive wins against Mumbai in the last two matches. In such a situation, let's take a look at the pitch report of Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi.

Arun Jaitley Stadium Pitch Report

The pitch of Arun Jaitley Stadium in New Delhi is balanced for both batsmen and bowlers. In recent games the bowlers have dominated the field and teams batting first have struggled to score big. The wickets have been slow in the second innings on old pitches and in such a situation both the teams would like to win the toss and bat first.

Arun Jaitley Stadium Statistics

  • Total T20 matches: 13
  • Matches won while batting first: 4
  • Matches won by bowling first: 9
  • Average score of first innings: 139
  • Average score of second innings: 136

Possible 11 from both teams

DC: Meg Lanning (captain), Shafali Verma, Elise Capsey, Jemimah Rodriguez, Marizanne Kapp, Jess Jonassen, Radha Yadav, Arundhati Reddy, Tania Bhatia (wk), Shikha Pandey, Meenu Mani.

RCB: Smriti Mandhana (captain), Sophie Devine, S Meghna/Disha Cassette, Ellyse Perry, Richa Ghosh (wk), Sophie Molyneux, Georgia Wareham, Shreyanka Patil, Asha Shobhana, Shraddha Pokharkar, Renuka Thakur.