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RCB Skipper Smriti Mandhana Explains Asha Sobhana’s Last-Over Bowling in WPL Eliminator Against MI

The Royal Challengers Asha Sobhana, an uncapped Indian cricketer for Bangalore, put up a strong fight to keep the Mumbai Indians at bay 12 runs up in the last over of Friday’s Women’s Premier League (WPL) 2024 Eliminator. In her two overs of bowling during the match, Sobhana gave up 13 runs while taking one wicket, helping her team advance to the WPL 2024 championship game. Bangalore captain Smriti Mandhana gave an explanation of the decision to use Sobhana to bowl the final over after the match.

“We did not want to give Amelia Kerr a lot of speed.” With 12 laps to defend and a respectable pace against her, it is difficult for a pacemaker to execute a perfect yorker. I went to Asha and asked her if she would bowl the final over. The way she answered… I believe a captain is constantly searching for that kind of assurance in bowlers. In a video posted by the Women’s Premier League (WPL) official account on social media platform X (previously Twitter), Mandhana stated, “I thought she was the girl:.

Do you want to bowl the last over? I can, of course. The post posted by WPL stated, “Hear from Captain Smriti Mandhana and Asha Shobhana on the final over call that successfully paid off for Royal Challengers Bangalore.” Conversely, Sobhana expressed her exact emotions when being assigned to bowl the last over of the Eliminator match against the Mumbai Indians.

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Around the 18th over, Smriti approached me and requested if I could bowl the 20th over at the same time. Of course I can, I said. I’ll protect the objective. I told you not to worry about it,” Sobhana recalled.

Royal Challengers Bangalore lost six wickets in 20 overs while scoring 135 runs while batting first. Ellyse Perry scored a fantastic half-century to finish as the leading scorer for Royal Challengers Bangalore. Perry scored 66 runs off of 50 balls with elegance.

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Ultimately, Sobhana proved to be the savior of Royal Challengers Bangalore, bowling a boundary-free 20th over to secure a thrilling five-run victory for her team. Sunday’s WPL 2024 final between Delhi Capitals and Royal Challengers Bangalore is the next matchup.

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