In the WPL 2024 Tight Death Bowling, Sobhana Asha helped RCB to a 2-run win over UP
Amazing death-over bowling by Georgia Wareham and Sophie Molineux after Sobhana Asha's 5/22 haul helped Royal Challengers Bangalore defeat UP Warriorz by two runs in another last-ball thriller of the Women's Premier League season 2024 at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium on Saturday.
After restricting RCB to 157 runs at the loss of six wickets thanks to a superb all-round effort by their bowling unit, despite a blazing 62 by Richa Ghosh and a fine 53 by Sabbineni Meghana, UP Warriorz looked in cruise mode as they needed 15 runs from the last two overs. Deepti Sharma had pulled them closer to the line by hitting back-to-back boundaries on the first two deliveries of the 18th over, bowled by Shreyanka Patil. She nailed another boundary off the fifth ball of the over as UP Wariorz scored 14 runs off the over and were looking good for victory.
The penultimate over bowled by Warsham of RCB pulled them back, as despite being struck a boundary by Poonam Khemnar, whom she clean bowled off the next delivery for 14, she conceded five runs in the over.
But 11 of the six deliveries were still gettable, but Deepti Sharma and Sophie Ecclestone failed to take the Warriorz over the line in the over by Molineux. Both batters took a single each in the first two balls before Shreyanka dropped Deepti at mid-off.
A dot ball later, UP needed nine off two balls. Deepti Sharma marched down the track to smack a boundary past deep mid-wicket, but she could not hammer the final delivery to the boundary with five needed, and RCB won the match by two runs as they could manage only 155 runs at the loss of seven wickets in 20 overs.