Month: February 2024

KL Rahul, Devdutt Padikkal, Rajat Patidar (Source:AP/BCCI)

Wareham’s effort was almost similar to ABD’s (X.com)
Fielding is one such place where there is always room for improvement. Players such as Virat Kohli and AB de Villiers, among many others, have set a high standard, and even womens cricket has started getting influenced due to their heroic efforts.
Similarly, everyone was in awe of what Georgia Wareham pulled off on Thursday while playing for Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) against Delhi Capitals at M.Chinnaswamy Stadium.
It all happened during the 11th over of Delhis innings when Shafali Verma went berserk against Nadine de Klerk to play a huge six over deep mid-wicket. However, placed near the boundary line, Wareham kept her eyes on the ball before going for an acrobatic dive to save a certain six.
In fact, the effort reminded many of what de Villiers did in 2018 during an IPL match between RCB and Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH). The South African superstar put up an almost similar effort before taking a gravity-defying catch.
Even the Delhi Capitals bench, led by Marizanne Kapp, erupted in applause for Wareham’s spectacular fielding.
As of now, Delhi have posted 124/4 after 15 overs, with Kapp and Jess Jonassen in the middle, on 9* and 0* respectively in Match 7 of the ongoing edition.

Sana Javed disappointed after Malik’s wicket (X.com)
Shoaib Malik is the most experienced active cricketer in PSL 2024 currently and is still going strong with his superb cricketing skills and fitness. However, against Quetta Gladiators in the 16th match of PSL 2024, he could not get going and departed on 12 off 20 deliveries as he failed to clear the fence against Abrar Ahmed which left his wife quite disappointed.
Karachi Kings while batting first lost the first wicket in the opening over and despite a good second wicket stand, they lost wickets at regular intervals in the middle overs. Shoaib Malik who walked out to bat at number 4 was especially finding it difficult to time the ball despite trying hard.
His wicket in the 13th over was also an classic example of Shoaib Malik trying too hard but not getting the desired result. It was a tossed up delivery from Abrar Ahmed on off. Malik danced down the track and tried to pump it over long off. However, he did not time it properly and ended up hitting it straight to Jason Roy near the boundary line.
Naturally, Shoaib Malik was disappointed and so was his new wife Sana Javed who was also enjoying the game. She would be hoping that her husband now delivers with ball in hand and contribute to his team’s success.

Lewis Hamilton went fastest in the second practice session at the F1 Bahrain Grand Prix on Thursday to give Mercedes a much-needed boost.
Teammate George Russell was second-fastest – while Red Bulls Max Verstappen was notably sixth.
Fernando Alonso was third, behind the Mercedes duo, Carlos Sainz was fourth, Oscar Piastri fifth.
Hamiltons pace – a best time of 1m30.374s – in FP2 will deliver some optimism at Mercedes who, at the opening round of the 2024 F1 season, hope their new W15 car will represent a turnaround after two terrible years.
Just six minutes in, Hamilton set a benchmark of 1:30.751s.
He led Verstappen by half-a-second for the majority of FP2.
The three-time F1 champion and Red Bull driver was left complaining “I have too much air coming through my helmet” in a frustrating session.
Verstappen may have taken some comfort from a race simulation which was fastest, ahead of Hamilton.
After qualifying simulation times, with 20 minutes left on the clock, Hamilton led Russell, Alonso, Sainz, Piastri and Verstappen.
Lando Norris was last after the qualifying sim having made an error which resulted in him aborting his lap.
The third practice session, and qualifying, will be held on Friday.
The F1 Bahrain Grand Prix then takes place on Saturday, 24 hours earlier than the usual traditional slot in Formula 1 to take into account the start of Ramadan in the host country.

Feb 29, 2024 10:50 PM IST
WPL 2024, RCB vs DC Live Cricket Score, Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Delhi Capitals: Delhi Capitals win by 25 runs
WPL 2024, RCB vs DC Live Cricket Score, Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Delhi Capitals: As many as three wickets fell in that final over and the RCB challenge has gone out with a bit of a whimper in the end, even though they were tasked with a record chase. Marizanne Kapp, as is the case so often, made the difference with those two huge wickets Smriti Mandhana and Richa Ghosh. Arundhati Reddy got the breakthrough for them, dismissing Sophie Devine and thus ending that devastating opening stand. RCB have suffered their first loss of the season.
WPL 2024, RCB vs DC Live Cricket Score, Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Delhi Capitals: Close call for Kapp!
WPL 2024, RCB vs DC Live Cricket Score, Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Delhi Capitals: SIX!
WPL 2024, RCB vs DC Live Cricket Score, Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Delhi Capitals: Marizanne Kapp joins the party. Last ball of the 14th from Molineux, dragged down outside off and sits up nicely just asking to be hit. Kapp fulfills the ball’s wish, sent sailing over long-on.
RCB vs DC Live Score: DC 120/3 in 14 overs
WPL 2024, RCB vs DC Live Cricket Score, Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Delhi Capitals: OUT!
WPL 2024, RCB vs DC Live Cricket Score, Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Delhi Capitals: One brings two for DC. Jemimah Rodrigues gone for a duck as she sends the fifth ball of the 13th to mid-off.
Rodrigues c Bahadur b de Klerk 0 (4)
RCB vs DC Live Score: DC 111/3 in 12.5 overs
WPL 2024, RCB vs DC Live Cricket Score, Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Delhi Capitals: GONE! 50 and out for Shafali
WPL 2024, RCB vs DC Live Cricket Score, Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Delhi Capitals: One big shot too many. Tries to go for a third consecutive boundary off the last ball of that over but Shafali ends up holing out at deep midwicket. Shafali has done her job though, this is exactly the kind of DC would have wanted.
Shafali c Wareham b Patil 50 (31)
RCB vs DC Live Score: DC 110/2 in 12 overs
WPL 2024, RCB vs DC Live Cricket Score, Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Delhi Capitals: BACK TO BACK SIXES! Fifty for Shafali!
WPL 2024, RCB vs DC Live Cricket Score, Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Delhi Capitals: The onslaught continues. Fourth ball of the 12th from Shreyanka is sent over long off by Shafali and then she smashes the next over cow corner. He fifty comes up in 30 balls.
WPL 2024, RCB vs DC Live Cricket Score, Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Delhi Capitals: SIX! Gigantic from Capsey!
WPL 2024, RCB vs DC Live Cricket Score, Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Delhi Capitals: Nadine de Clerk is making her debut for RCB and her first ball has been treated with disdain as well by Capsey. She is not leaving any survivors today, the England big hitter. This one sent over deep midwicket.
WPL 2024, RCB vs DC Live Cricket Score, Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Delhi Capitals: FOUR!
WPL 2024, RCB vs DC Live Cricket Score, Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Delhi Capitals: The third ball of that over is looped full outside off, Capsey smashes it to backward pint. Three runs off the rest of the over and Capsey moves to 31 off 18, Shafali on 34 off 25.
RCB vs DC Live Score: DC 84/1 in 10 overs
WPL 2024, RCB vs DC Live Cricket Score, Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Delhi Capitals: SIX! More from Capsey!
WPL 2024, RCB vs DC Live Cricket Score, Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Delhi Capitals: Georgia Wareham into the attack for the first time in the 10th over and her first ball is sent sailing over deep midwicket. Capsey has raced to 25 in 14 balls.
RCB vs DC Live Score: DC 77/1 in 9.1 overs
WPL 2024, RCB vs DC Live Cricket Score, Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Delhi Capitals: First time out
WPL 2024, RCB vs DC Live Cricket Score, Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Delhi Capitals: It is raining boundaries at both ends at the moment. Shafali is on 27 off 21, Capsey on 16 off 10.
RCB vs DC Live Score: DC 60/1 in 8 overs
WPL 2024, RCB vs DC Live Cricket Score, Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Delhi Capitals: FOUR! How about that from Capsey!
WPL 2024, RCB vs DC Live Cricket Score, Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Delhi Capitals: Fourth ball of the eighth from Shobhana who is bowling the first over of spin in this innings. It is short and Capsey waits for it and smashes it over backward point with a switch hit.
WPL 2024, RCB vs DC Live Cricket Score, Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Delhi Capitals: SIX!
WPL 2024, RCB vs DC Live Cricket Score, Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Delhi Capitals: What a way to end the powerplay. Shafali sends the last ball of the sixth over by Molineux into the stands behind long-on. She moves to 25 off 18, Alice Capsey at the other end on four off one.
RCB vs DC Live Score: DC 45/1 in 6 overs
WPL 2024, RCB vs DC Live Cricket Score, Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Delhi Capitals: GONE! Devine with the breakthrough!
WPL 2024, RCB vs DC Live Cricket Score, Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Delhi Capitals: Meg Lanning is gone! Fifth ball of the fifth over, Lanning slices it straight to the fielder at the fence. Wasn’t the best of deliveries from Devine and somehow, Lanning has fallen for that.
Lanning c Wareham b Devine 11 (17)
RCB vs DC Live Score: DC 28/1 in 4.5 overs
WPL 2024, RCB vs DC Live Cricket Score, Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Delhi Capitals: No boundaries in the 4th over
WPL 2024, RCB vs DC Live Cricket Score, Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Delhi Capitals: Sophie Molineux gives away just a run in her first over of the day. Some pressure built on DC now.
WPL 2024, RCB vs DC Live Cricket Score, Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Delhi Capitals: DROPPED!
WPL 2024, RCB vs DC Live Cricket Score, Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Delhi Capitals: Oh that was a dolly. Shafali slices the inside out shot off the last ball of the first over, it lobs nicely to cover where Shreyanka makes an absolute meal of it. A very eventful first over that has ultimately worked in DC’s favour.
RCB vs DC Live Score: DC 8/0 after 1 over
WPL 2024, RCB vs DC Live Cricket Score, Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Delhi Capitals: FOUR!
WPL 2024, RCB vs DC Live Cricket Score, Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Delhi Capitals: Shafali Verma not wasting any time. She lifts the fifth ball of the first over over Renuka to the boundary. Imperious shot that.
RCB vs DC Live Score: DC 6/0 after 0.5 overs
WPL 2024, RCB vs DC Live Cricket Score, Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Delhi Capitals: DRS off the very first ball!
WPL 2024, RCB vs DC Live Cricket Score, Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Delhi Capitals: What a first delivery that is from Renuka, pitches outside off and then swings right into Lanning. Mandhana has a long chat with Renuka and Sophie Devine before taking the review in the last second. Lanning wasn’t too sure if there was time left on the clock but there was. Everything is good except that it is missing leg stump by a whisker.
RCB vs DC Live Score: DC 0/0 in 0.1 overs
WPL 2024, RCB vs DC Live Cricket Score, Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Delhi Capitals: The players making their way out
WPL 2024, RCB vs DC Live Cricket Score, Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Delhi Capitals: The two umpires walk out and then the players. The crowd is absolutely electric, RCB! RCB! chants everywhere. Shafali Verma and Meg Lanning opening for DC. Renuka Singh bowling the first over for RCB.
WPL 2024, RCB vs DC Live Cricket Score, Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Delhi Capitals: Meg Lanning’s thoughts
WPL 2024, RCB vs DC Live Cricket Score, Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Delhi Capitals: “We were going to have a bowl but that seems to be the trend. But the track won’t change much through the game. Sometimes things go your way and sometimes they don’t in T20 cricket. Jess Jonassen comes in for Annabel Sutherland.”
WPL 2024, RCB vs DC Live Cricket Score, Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Delhi Capitals: What Smriti Mandhana said
WPL 2024, RCB vs DC Live Cricket Score, Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Delhi Capitals: We would like to field first. We have seen a trend where there is something for the bowlers in the first 5-6 overs. Also, it is better to know the target in T20 cricket. That was the talk even before the season, not to depend on certain players and all the XI are good enough to win a game on their own. Perry misses out due to an illness. Nadine comes in and makes her debut. They have turned up in huge numbers and we feel we have 10 runs more due to their support. Really thankful to them.
WPL 2024, RCB vs DC Live Cricket Score, Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Delhi Capitals: DC XI
WPL 2024, RCB vs DC Live Cricket Score, Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Delhi Capitals: Meg Lanning(c), Shafali Verma, Jemimah Rodrigues, Alice Capsey, Marizanne Kapp, Jess Jonassen, Arundhati Reddy, Minnu Mani, Taniya Bhatia(w), Radha Yadav, Shikha Pandey
WPL 2024, RCB vs DC Live Cricket Score, Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Delhi Capitals: RCB XI
WPL 2024, RCB vs DC Live Cricket Score, Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Delhi Capitals: Smriti Mandhana(c), Sophie Devine, Sabbhineni Meghana, Nadine de Klerk, Richa Ghosh(w), Georgia Wareham, Sophie Molineux, Shreyanka Patil, Simran Bahadur, Asha Sobhana, Renuka Thakur Singh
WPL 2024, RCB vs DC Live Cricket Score, Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Delhi Capitals: TOSS ALERT!
WPL 2024, RCB vs DC Live Cricket Score, Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Delhi Capitals: Big cheers from the home crowd as Smriti Mandhana wins the toss. She says that RCB will bowl first.
WPL 2024, RCB vs DC Live Cricket Score, Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Delhi Capitals: DC’s matches thus far
WPL 2024, RCB vs DC Live Cricket Score, Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Delhi Capitals: DC played the opening match of the season on February 23 after the Mumbai Indians in what was a repeat of last year’s final. The result, unfortunately for them, was the same, with MI winning by four wickets. They then thrashed UPW by nine wickets.
WPL 2024, RCB vs DC Live Cricket Score, Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Delhi Capitals: RCB’s matches thus far
WPL 2024, RCB vs DC Live Cricket Score, Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Delhi Capitals: RCB started off by beating UP Warriorz by two runs in what was the second match of the season on February 24. They then followed that up by beating Gujarat Giants by eight wickets, thus becoming the only team this season to have won their second match after having won their first.
WPL 2024, RCB vs DC Live Cricket Score, Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Delhi Capitals: Kapp on her 3/5
WPL 2024, RCB vs DC Live Cricket Score, Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Delhi Capitals: “Wherever I’ve been playing, whether that’s international cricket or in leagues, I’m probably better off bowling with the new ball…We have very good death bowlers, so that allows me to bowl upfront more with the new ball,” said Kapp after her performance against UPW

Central contracts: BCCI drops Shreyas Iyer, Ishan Kishan

When you look at the City team, do you fear what they have got?”They have a good team but there are more good teams. They have won in the last season, so this last year, everything, but we know and that is the challenge. But also Liverpool is a very good team and there are more good teams. We like the challenge and we are looking forward to challenge with them.”Sir Jim Ratcliffe spoke last week about wanting to knock City off their perch. Is this an opportunity for your team to make a statement and show you are not as far away as some people think?”I think that has nothing to do with each other. But we want to win every game. That is always our mentality and our approach in every game. It doesn’t matter who is the opponent. But, as I say, you always want to play against the best. So, most of the time we feel, and you can also see it, the opposition get the best outputs against Manchester United. Maybe this game is the other way around but we know we have to give everything and show a team performance, if we want to get the result. But if you do it, it is possible. That is also what the opposition shows in this moment against Manchester City.”
What have you learnt from previous matches against Manchester City?”We did it in several ways, many ways, and been successful. So, from all the games, we look back. We had the opportunity to win one time and you need a great day. That is also what we know, so the players have to give the best performances.”