WPL 2024: Ellyse Perry Stars As RCBW Beat MI By 7 Wickets - As It Happened

Royal Challengers Bangalore have finished third and eventually qualified for the next round of the WPL 2024. Tomorrow is the tournament's final league match between GG and DC. Night!

Welcome to the live coverage of match no. 19 of the Women's Premier League 2024 between Mumbai Indians Women and Royal Challengers Bangalore Women being played at Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi. A win tonight for either sides, would definetly boost their morale. A win for Mumbai would seal their top-spot in the standings whereas RCB are vying for a qualifier spot. When these two met in Bengaluru, MI won that tie by seven wickets and would look to repeat the performance in the national capital. Follow the live cricket scores and updates of the MIW Vs RCBW match here. (Streaming | Full Coverage | Schedule And Points Table)

Royal Challengers Bangalore Women Squad: Smriti Mandhana(c), Sophie Molineux, Ellyse Perry, Sophie Devine, Richa Ghosh(w), Georgia Wareham, Disha Kasat, Shreyanka Patil, Asha Sobhana, Shraddha Pokharkar, Renuka Thakur Singh, Ekta Bisht, Kate Cross, Sabbhineni Meghana, Nadine de Klerk, Simran Bahadur, Indrani Roy, Shubha Satheesh.

Mumbai Indians Women Squad: Yastika Bhatia(w), Hayley Matthews, Nat Sciver-Brunt, Harmanpreet Kaur(c), Amelia Kerr, Amanjot Kaur, S Sajana, Pooja Vastrakar, Humaira Kazi, Shabnim Ismail, Saika Ishaque, Chloe Tryon, Fatima Jaffer, Keerthana Balakrishnan, Issy Wong, Jintimani Kalita, Priyanka Bala, Amandeep Kaur.

"It's a new pitch at the Arun Jaitley Stadium and therefore the dimensions will be different. Straight - 64 metres, square boundaries - 50 metres and 60 metres. The pitch looks hard and well prepared, the batters will have a reasonably good time here on this surface. The fast bowlers have to be very particular about the lines they bowl because they'll succeed by bowling a straighter line. 61% of the wickets have come from the stump-to-stump line. Their task is cut out."

RCB Skipper Smriti Mandhana has won the toss and elected to bowl first against MI in this crucial fixture for the women in Red at Delhi's Arun Jaitley Stadium.

Royal Challengers Bangalore Women (Playing XI): Smriti Mandhana(c), Sophie Molineux, Ellyse Perry, Sophie Devine, Richa Ghosh(w), Georgia Wareham, Disha Kasat, Shreyanka Patil, Asha Sobhana, Shraddha Pokharkar, Renuka Thakur Singh.

Mumbai Indians Women (Playing XI): Hayley Matthews, Nat Sciver-Brunt, Priyanka Bala(w), Harmanpreet Kaur(c), Amelia Kerr, Amanjot Kaur, S Sajana, Pooja Vastrakar, Humaira Kazi, Shabnim Ismail, Saika Ishaque.

Harmanpreet Kaur: We wanted to bat. We wanted to see how it goes. It's a new day, new game, I have to start from ball one. It's an honour to have so many match-winners in the team. Yastika is not well, Bala is playing.

Smriti Mandhana: We'll like to field first. It's a fresh wicket. It'll be good to know what the total we are chasing. It (the one-run loss) was hard, but the way we played, one run doesn't define us. We played some good cricket. We have to be good in all three departments, that's going to be crucial. We are unchanged.

Mumbai Indians Women openers are at the crease as RCBW look for early wickets in this WPL 2024 fixture.

All-rounder Sophie Devine struck on the final delivery of the sixth over to remove the dangerous Hayley Matthews (26 off 23 deliveries) caught by Ellyse Perry at the deep square leg region.

MI - 43-1 (6 overs)

Australian all-rounder Ellyse Perry ran the show as RCBW took two wickets off consecutive deliveries to put MIW under-pressure. Perry almost took a hat-trick as she dismissed S Sajana and Harmanpreet Kaur back-to-back.

Ellyse Perry scalped two wickets in an over to put MI under tremendous pressure after their openers had given them a blistering start. Perry removed Sajana (30) and Harmanpreet Kaur for a first-ball duck to get RCBW right back into the game.

MI - 69-3 (10 overs)

With the figures of 6/15, Ellyse Perry has taken the best-ever figures in WPL history. Thanks to her bowling, MIW are in deep, deep trouble and are stuttering with the bat.

MIW - 91-7 (15 overs)

At the Ranji Trophy final, 19-year-old Musheer Khan scored a century in the Ranji Trophy final against Vidarbha on Tuesday, 12 March and by doing so, he broke the record of Sachin Tendulkar to become the youngest Mumbai cricketer to hit a century in the Ranji Trophy Final. The Master Blaster had achieved this feat at the age of 22 when scored twin hundreds in the 1994-95 season final against Punjab.

Ellyse Perry starred with the ball as her six-wickets stifled the reigning champions Mumbai Indians. The Harmanpreet Kaur-led side were all out for 113 with Perry taking 6/15. If RCBW chase this down in minimum overs, they could seal their spot in the qualifying stages.

MIW - 113-10 (18.5 overs)

RCB openers Smriti Mandhana and Sophie Molineux are at the crease to chase down the target of 114.

Wow, MI couldn't have hoped for a better start than scalping two wickets in the form of Sophie Molineux and Smriti Mandhana.

RCB - 29/2 (5 overs)

MIW - 113-10 (18.5 overs)

Despite losing three wickets, RCBW have Ellyse Perry at the crease and Richa Ghosh as they require 55 runs in the last ten overs. MIW need wickets to stay in the game. This could go down to the wire. Also, UP Warriorz are out of the contention for the play-off stage.

RCB - 59/3 (10 overs)

MIW - 113-10 (18.5 overs)

Player Of The Match - Ellyse Perry (Who Else). Best figures in the match and in the history of WPL and then star with the bat (40 not out) to help guide the team towards victory, the Australian all-rounder has proved again why she is the best in the business. With this win, RCB are through to the next stage and will claim the third spot.

RCB - 115/3 (15 overs)

MIW - 113-10 (18.5 overs)

Harmanpreet Kaur, MI Skipper: She (Perry) bowled really well today. None of us took the responsibility to bat deep today. We tried our best, unfortunately we dropped some chances. Our bowlers were giving their 100 percent, score was not enough on the board. None of us batted according to the way she was bowling. She bowled really well and we should give credit to her. Today's game will teach us a lot of things. We will sit together and see how we have to make our plan for the next game.

Richa Ghosh: I wanted to take some time at the start. When I was keeping, I noticed that the pitch was keeping low. I went for my shots after getting set. Everyone was sad (after the previous loss) but they cheered me up. Forgot it before the start of this match. (On Perry) Superb, the way she bowled was amazing.

Smriti Mandhana, RCB skipper: The last match losing by one run is not ideal, the whole conversation was that 1 run doesn't make us a bad team. We had actually played some good cricket this season and just need to keep our head high. They did have a good start, but there was little calmness with the group today from the time we had our meeting and it was a brilliant spell to watch. Today's match was very important for us to get going, we wanted to come out and play good cricket and for Perry to come back and take those 6 wickets, wow that was some sight to watch. We didn't focus on other teams and other equations, we just wanted to win and glad everyone stepped up in the crucial match.

Ellyse Perry | Player of the Match: Nice to come out and play a great game with the girls, just really enjoyable. I really enjoyed bowling and did some work with coaches back home in the last 3 years. I just managed to find a good length and it did a little bit off the wicket. The games come thick and fast and I loved that partnership with Richa Ghosh and it was great to spend some time out there in the middle.