Voll powers record total, ends RCB’s title defence

UP Warriorz Posts Record Total, Ends RCB's Title Defence

Key Highlights

• UP Warriorz posted the highest-ever WPL total of 225/5, led by Georgia Voll's 99 not out and Kiran Navgire's 46 off 16 balls.
• RCB bowlers looked rusty, bowling either too short or too full, allowing Voll & Co. to take full toll.
• RCB needed to better their own chasing record to stay alive in the playoffs race, but fell 12 runs short of the target.

Warriorz Innings

• Georgia Voll (99 not out) and Grace Harris (39) put on a 77-run opening partnership at 11 an over.
• Kiran Navgire launched a brutal counterattack, hammering three experienced bowlers to all parts of the ground.
• Navgire's 46 off 15 balls was the WPL's fastest fifty, but he was eventually holed out to Perry near long-off.
• Voll raised Warriorz's 200 at the end of the 17th over with back-to-back boundary hits off Wareham.

RCB Innings

• Smriti Mandhana got going with a sublime cover boundary but fell to a soft dismissal in the third over.
• S Meghana took Harris apart with a 22-run over that included two sixes and as many fours.
• Perry and Bist carried forward the attack to finish the PowerPlay on 70/2, but UPW kept pegging them back with regular strikes.
• Richa Ghosh's 69 and Sneh Rana's 26 were not enough to take RCB to victory, as they fell 12 runs short of the target.

Final Score

• UP Warriorz 225/5 in 20 overs (Georgia Voll 99*, Kiran Navgire 46, Grace Harris 39; Georgia Wareham 2-43)
• Royal Challengers Bengaluru 213 in 19.3 overs (Richa Ghosh 69, Sneh Rana 26; Sophie Ecclestone 3-25, Deepti Sharma 3-50)