Published By: Dishya Sharma
Last Updated: March 18, 2024, 17:10 IST
RCB women clinched the first WPL title. (Photo Credits: Twitter)
To celebrate the victory, several celebs took to their respective social media handles and congratulated the Women’s RCB team for clinching the title.
Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) women’s team led by cricketer Smriti Mandhana on Sunday clinched the Women’s Premier League 2024 (WPL) title by defeating Delhi Capitals (DC) by 8 wickets at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in New Delhi. RCB finished their campaign with 4 out of 8 victories securing the third position in the points table. Fans are currently on cloud nine as RCB has finally won their first ever title after a long wait of 16 years. To mark the victory, several celebs took to their respective social media handles and congratulated the Women’s RCB team for clinching the title.
TV actor and ex-Bigg Boss contestant, Aly Goni took to his Instagram account and shared a video of the team’s winning moment on his stories that he captioned “Finally” followed by clapping hands emoticon. Khatron Ke Khiladi fame Anushka Sen shared a picture of RCB’s captain Mandhana lifting the winner’s trophy and wrote “QUEEENNSSS 2024!!!” apart from them several other celebs also congratulated RCB for their first title win.
Star Indian cricketer and the former men’s RCB skipper Virat Kohli also congratulated the Women’s RCB team for clinching the title through a video call post match. He also took to Instagram and shared a picture on his stories which he captioned, “Superwoman.” Current men’s RCB captain Faf Du Plesis also expressed his happiness over the women’s team winning the trophy.
However, during the post-match conference Mandhana revealed that she couldn’t hear anything that Kohli said on video call as it was too loud but she will be meeting him soon.
Talking about the match, Delhi Capitals won the toss and elected to bat first but got all out at 113 in 18.3 overs. DC openers Shaifali Verma and skipper Meg Lanning gave a powerful start to the team with 64-0 in 43 balls but RCB’s bowlers Sheyanka Patil, Sophie Molineux, and Asha Shobhana helped the team to bounce back and got DC batters out one-by-one.
RCB in return chased down the 114 target with three balls to spare. Skipper Smriti Mandhana, Ellyse Perry and Sophie Devine’s contribution scores exceeding 30 runs helped the team to seal a victory.
