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Statistics

Best performances - Batsmen

L Lee
67(44) 8x4 - 3x6
Control %82%
  • Productive Shot
  • slog sweep
  • 16 runs
  • 0x4 - 2x6
9 4 4 7 8 2 13 20
MM Lanning
54(38) 9x4 - 1x6
Control %75%
  • Productive Shot
  • pull
  • 13 runs
  • 3x4 - 0x6
4 13 14 10 3 10 0 0

Best performances - Bowlers

Shafali Verma
Shafali Verma
O4
M0
R16
W2
Eco4
RHB
OFFLEG
1W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF
1W
M Kapp
O4
M1
R24
W2
Eco6
RHB
OFFLEG
1W1W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF

Match Details

Toss

Delhi Capitals Women , elected to field first

Player Of The Match

Season

Hours of play (local time)

19.30 start, First Session 19.30-21.00, Interval 21.00-21.20, Second Session 21.20-22.50

Match days

14 January 2026 - night match (20-over match)

Reserve Umpire

Match Referee

Points

Delhi Capitals Women 2, UP Warriorz Women 0

Scorer: Thilak R | Commentator: Shashwat Kumar

END OF OVER:
20 | 9 Runs | DC-W: 158/3 | RR: 7.90

  • Laura Wolvaardt25 (24b)
  • Marizanne Kapp5 (6b)
  • Sophie Ecclestone4-0-44-0
  • Deepti Sharma3-0-26-2

11:14pm That will be all from us for today. We hope you enjoyed our coverage and we will be back with more cricket tomorrow. Until then, from all of us here at ESPNcricinfo, it is goodbye!

Shafali Verma, Player of the Match: I have confidence in my bowling. Don't know how since I got such confidence in domestic cricket but after picking up wickets in a World Cup final, you get confident. We were trying to bowl stump to stump, give away singles and cut out boundaries. I am a hard hitter so I know where to bowl. I think as a batter and try not to get hit for six, and figure out where to bowl by thinking like a batter. It was a turning track today. Sometimes, when it turns, you cannot hit sixes. I got out to the reverse sweep but I keep practicing. Bringing new shots out is part of the growing process. (On Lee as her opening partner) In last three years, I was opening with Meg and she knew me very well. Me and Lee are gelling well. Our discussion is to give whoever is going well the strike.

Jemimah Rodrigues, Delhi Capitals captain: Very happy. It was a nail biting finish but proud of the way the girls held their nerve. Everyone was pretty calm (even though it went down to the wire). It was a bit nervy towards the end when I lost my wicket. It was a bit of deja vu. But the way Kapp and Laura finished it off, hats off. We bowled really well today. The way Sneh came back. That is cricket. It was crucial to get us going. All our bowlers bowled well but Shafali was the standout. She contributes for DC either with the bat or ball. She is very confident in her bowling. Wake her up from her sleep and she will be ready to bowl. She was phenomenal (tonight).

Meg Lanning, UP Warriorz captain: It was an excellent effort from the bowlers to take it that deep. It was tougher to bat, when pace was taken off. Felt we were in the game if we bowled well. Great effort to take it that deep. (On her innings) Nice to get away. Would have loved to have kept going. Hopefully there are a few more (such knocks). (On Deol retired out decision) Tryon is a boundary hitter and we wanted to maximise that as much as we could. Harleen batted well. We make a decision based on what is best for the team. unfortunately for Harleen, it is what happened. Some days it works, sometimes it doesn't. (On the decision to drop Dottin for Tryon) Felt Chloe was a nice match-up against DC. Some positives to take from tonight, but learnings as well. MI have some world-class players but really looking forward to that (game).

Lizelle Lee: There was a bit of miscommunication. Will put that down to language barrier. I thought they said they would retire me out after the over and so I swung and got out (smiles). Team did extremely well to get us past the line. She (Shafali) has been hitting the ball well in the nets. Happy she got some runs and she deserves it. (On Shafali the bowler) She did extremely well for us tonight. (On keeping for DC) Really enjoying it. Trusting my hands and going really well.

10:52pm Well, that got very tense. Too tense from a DC POV, if we are being completely honest. They had no business dragging this game this deep but in the end, they will not care because they have the two points they came for tonight. Lee set the stage alongside Shafali, before Wolvaardt and Rodrigues played cameos, even though the latter fell prior to her side crossing the line.

The Warriorz will be pleased with the fight they showed. But they will be ruing their inability to show that sort of spunk with the bat. A few of Lanning's decisions (like bowling Gaud for only two overs or bringing Deepti on late) were puzzling, and once the dust settles, that, plus the lack of firepower towards the end of their batting innings, might be areas they introspect over.

soham: "Laura played that shot with so much authority, nerves of steel for real."

19.6
4
Ecclestone to Wolvaardt, FOUR, pressure, what pressure, asks Laura Wolvaardt! The Delhi Capitals scrape past the finish line, and they are now on the board. And the Warriorz remain without a point! Attempted yorker outside off. A touch on the shorter side, though, and Wolvaardt crunches this through the off side ring. Past extra cover in a jiffy, and the Capitals heave a sigh of relief, and Lanning, in her first meeting against her former side, has to settle for a participation certificate!

1 off 1. A dot or a wicket and we go into....well, you know that already. Field comes up fully

19.5
1lb
Ecclestone to Kapp, 1 leg bye, massive lbw shout, not given! Zipped in very full just outside off. Kapp shuffles across and seems to miss the fine sweep. May have been rapped on the pad but outside the line. UP Warriorz, though, will review because, well, why not. Seems like they may not have much of a prayer here. No bat involved but the impact is clearly outside off. Kapp stays and the scores are level!

2 off 2. How are the nerves now, folks?

19.4
0
Ecclestone to Kapp, no run, another pin-point yorker on off. Kapp digs it out towards the bowler and that is another dot. My oh my!
19.3
0
Ecclestone to Kapp, no run, into the blockhole just outside off. Kapp cannot jam her bat down in time and the ball scrapes past the outside edge of the bat

2 off 4. Surely DC will get home now?

19.2
4
Ecclestone to Kapp, FOUR, through the gap, and Kapp eases a tonne of nerves! This is a juicy full toss outside off. Kapp lets the ball come to her before caressing it past cover!
19.1
0
Ecclestone to Kapp, no run, speared in full and wide. Kapp throws the plumbing at it but only grabs a handful of fresh air. Dot to start the over!

6 off 6. DC perhaps harboring memories of that chase against GG now. Ecclestone to bowl. Game on!

DC Women 2nd innings Partnerships

WktRunsPlayers
1st94L LeeShafali Verma
2nd20L LeeL Wolvaardt
3rd34JI RodriguesL Wolvaardt
4th10M KappL Wolvaardt