WPL 2023: Unsteady Gujarat Giants meet marauding Delhi Capitals

Delhi Capitals will look to seal its top-two place when it meets Gujarat Giants in a Women’s Premier League league fixture in Mumbai on Thursday.

The Meg Lanning-led Capitals have had a stellar marketing campaign to this point in WPL 2023, with a solitary blemish of their report being a tame loss to Mumbai Indians. The aspect has returned to dominant successful methods and can hope to brush an unsteady Giants unit out of the way in which.

WHEN THESE TWO TEAMS LAST MET: Delhi Capitals beat Gujarat Giants by 10 wickets; Shafali Verma and Marizanne Kapp stole the present

The Capitals have always backed their successful mixture, not often altering the enjoying XI in the course of the match. While the Giants’ issues blunt their potential to be a stable attacking unit, this could possibly be a very good sport for Lanning to check her bench. Delhi has always fielded Arundhati Reddy however barely utilised her as a bowler. Titas Sadhu, Poonam Yadav, and even Sneha Deepthi getting a glance in may give the squad an opportunity to weigh its choices higher.

The greater query is – why ought to they alter one thing that’s working properly? In fielding virtually an all-capped lineup for many of the match, the Capitals have prioritised successful, maybe unconsciously, over strolling the alternatives tightrope, and it has labored for the aspect. Sealing that playoff berth can be the very first thing on their minds on the Brabourne Stadium.

What is the fitting XI?

WPL 2023 is previous the halfway stage, however a crew that has not discovered its best XI are the Giants. The fragility of the crew’s choices is exemplified in the way in which they’ve rotated opening mixtures. After Beth Mooney’s harm, the aspect introduced Sophia Dunkley, who scored the quickest fifty of the match. When Laura Wolvaardt was roped in, Giants, to everybody’s shock, dropped Dunkley to accommodate the SA opener. Wolvaardt couldn’t fireplace and was then dropped to convey again Dunkley. While the musical chairs proceed right here, S Meghana’s low scores are doing the highest order no favours. It stays to be seen if the Giants do a UP and produce up one other participant or swap in Meghana for somebody like Ashwani Kumar.

Another situation is an underfiring bowling unit. With the pitches beginning to support spin, maybe Mansi Joshi, who has been costly and never deadly, will be changed with somebody like Hurley Gala, a helpful bat. Sneh Raha’s aspect will want extra self-discipline in its bowling to counter a deep Delhi batting order.

SQUADS:

Delhi Capitals: Meg Lanning(c), Shafali Verma, Alice Capsey, Marizanne Kapp, Jemimah Rodrigues, Jess Jonassen, Taniya Bhatia(w), Minnu Mani, Radha Yadav, Shikha Pandey, Tara Norris, Poonam Yadav, Laura Harris, Arundhati Reddy, Jasia Akhtar, Aparna Mondal, Titas Sadhu, Sneha Deepthi

Gujarat Giants: Sabbhineni Meghana, Sophia Dunkley, Harleen Deol, Ashleigh Gardner, Dayalan Hemalatha, Annabel Sutherland, Sneh Rana(c), Kim Garth, Sushma Verma(w), Mansi Joshi, Tanuja Kanwar, Laura Wolvaardt, Georgia Wareham, Monica Patel, Ashwani Kumari, Hurley Gala, Shabnam Md Shakil, Parunika Sisodia

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