Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Gujarat Giants Highlights, WPL 2025: Richa Ghosh scored a sensational fifty as defending champions Royal Challengers Bengaluru beat Gujarat Giants by 6 wickets in the opening match of Women's Premier League 2025 at Kotambi Stadium, Vadodara on Friday. Ghosh scored 64 not out off 27 balls as RCB chased down a 202-run target in 18.3 overs. Earlier, Ashleigh Gardner and Beth Mooney slammed commanding fifties as GG posted 201 for 5. Getting an invitation to bat first, GG got off to a slow start but Mooney's 56 off 42 eventually provided them a solid platform on which Gardner and Deandra Dottin capitalized. Gardner scored 79 runs off 37 balls with the help of 3 fours and 8 sixes. Dottin also played a crucial cameo of 25 off 13 balls. Renuka Singh was the pick of the bowlers for RCB with figures of 2 for 25. (Scorecard)
Here are the Highlights of WPL 2025 opening match between Royal Challengers Bengaluru Women and Gujarat Giants -
- 22:59 (IST)GG vs RCB Live: RCB WIN!!!That is a terrific finish from Richa Ghosh! This innings will be remembered for a long-long time in the Women's Premier League. She finishes the game with a six and stays not out at the score of 64 off 27. RCB win the opening game of WPL 2025 by 6 wickets against GG.
- 22:42 (IST)GG vs RCB Live: Richa Ghosh on fire!!!Richa Ghosh has turned this game on its head with some senstional batting. She slammed Ashleigh Gardner for 4 fours and 1 six in the 16th over of the innings. A total of 23 runs came in the over and suddenly Royal Challengers Bengaluru Women look the favourites from here. They need 40 runs in 24 balls. Meanwhile, Ghosh is batting at the score of 37 off 18 balls.
- 21:35 (IST)GG vs RCB Live: Mandhana is OUT!Ashleigh Gardner has struck! She has dismissed Smriti Mandhana. What a night the Australian all-rounder is having. She first scored a fiery 79 not out in the first innings and now provides her side a breakthrough in the second one. Mandhana walks off after scoring 9 off 7 balls. She also wasted one review in the process.
- 20:37 (IST)GG vs RCB Live: Hat-trick of SIXES!A flighted delivery from Prema Rawat and Ashleigh Gardner slammed it down the ground for a biggie. Okay, she is not stopping. Here is another sensational hit from her for a biggie. This one went over the deep mid-wicket fielder. Rawat follows it with a poor short ball down the leg side and Gardner has pulled it over the square leg to make a hat-trick of sixes. A single came after that. Rawat leaked 21 runs in the over.
- 20:21 (IST)GG vs RCB Live: Fifty for Beth Mooney!Hat-trick of fours and then a single that's how Beth Mooney raced to her fifty in just 37 balls. Gujarat Giants are back in the game with some good acceleration. 15 runs came off the last over bowled by Georgia Wareham. This is the fourth half-century for Mooney in WPL, and she equals Meg Lanning's record for scoring most fifties in the tournament.
- 20:00 (IST)GG vs RCB Live: Mistake from Mandhana!An appeal for LBW on the fourth ball of 5th over was turned down by the umpire. Renuka Singh was the bowler and she kept insisting her captain Smriti Mandhana to go for a review. But the captain felt it was a bit high. Ball tracking revealed that it would have hit the stumps. As soon as the big screen showed it in the next over, Renuka reacted to it and saw if her teammates were watching it.
- 19:56 (IST)GG vs RCB Live: OUT!There is the first blood for defending champions RCB. They have got the wicket of Laura Wolvaardt. A beautiful incoming delivery provides Renuka Singh the wicket. Wolvaardt also got an inside edge on it as the ball crashed on her stumps. She is gone for 6 off 10 balls. This is a good comeback from Renuka as she had leaked runs so far.