Big Picture
A variety of worldwide names linked up with their respective groups only a few days earlier than the match following the T20 World Cup in South Africa. While Mandhana is trying to make use of her data of the Indian home gamers to place a strong XI collectively, Lanning stated she can be leaning on her team-mates Rodrigues and Shafali Varma to deal with the youthful and unknown gamers.
Players to Watch
Both groups have an enviable mixture of abroad and Indian expertise. Royal Challengers have Richa Ghosh and Renuka Singh, the 2 high-profile India internationals. Capitals, in the meantime, have the likes of Shafali, Poonam Yadav and Radha Yadav.
Perry, van Niekerk, Heather Knight, Sophie Devine, Erin Burns and Megan Schutt are the abroad choices within the Royal Challengers facet, which implies the group administration may have some head-scratching to do over selecting simply 4 from this star-studded listing. They have captain Mandhana to do the heavy lifting from the highest, whereas Devine, Perry, Ghosh and van Niekerk shall be anticipated to offer the firepower within the center order. While Royal Challengers’ pace-bowling unit appears to be like strong with Schutt, Renuka and Perry, they don’t have an skilled Indian spinner of their ranks.
Capitals’ sturdy prime order has Shafali, Rodrigues and Lanning, with Kapp and Taniya Bhatia to comply with. They will, nevertheless, be left to select from a largely inexperienced pace-bowling unit, barring Shikha Pandey and Kapp. However, they’ve the choice to herald USA left-arm pacer Tara Norris, an Associate participant who might be included because the fifth abroad participant within the XI. Among the spin-bowling choices, Capitals have Radha Yadav, Jess Jonassen and Poonam Yadav.
Playing XIs
Delhi Capitals (attainable): 1 Shafali Verma, 2 Jemimah Rodrigues, 3 Meg Lanning (capt), 4 Marizanne Kapp, 5 Laura Harris, 6 Jasia Akhter, 7 Taniya Bhatia (wk), 8 Jess Jonassen, 9 Radha Yadav, 10 Shikha Pandey, 11 Tara Norris
Royal Challengers Bangalore (attainable): 1 Smriti Mandhana (capt), 2 Disha Kasat, 3 Sophie Devine, 4 Ellyse Perry, 5 Dane van Niekerk, 6 Richa Ghosh (wk), 7 Komal Zanzad/Asha Shobhana, 8 Preeti Bose, 9 Megan Schutt, 10 Renuka Singh, 10 Renuka Ahuja/Shreyanka Patil
Stats and trivia
Quotes
“I love winning, I’m very competitive and I’m coming here to try and help Delhi win as many games as possible. It would be great [to win], every team is probably thinking the same thing but we’re doing our best, and the biggest challenge is to bring everybody together and making sure we’re working as a team.”
Delhi Capitals captain Meg Lanning on how she desires to guide the brand new facet
“I just don’t like the kind of comparison because what he has achieved is amazing, and I hope that I can reach that level. But I’m nowhere near him. What he has achieved for this franchise, I’d like to try and do that.”
Royal Challengers captain Smriti Mandhana desires to emulate Virat Kohli’s success with the franchise
Sruthi Ravindranath is a sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo
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