WPL 2024, DC vs GG: Lanning, Jonassen fashion Delhi Capitals' easy 25-run win

Captain Meg Lannings fifty and a cunning spell of leftarm spin by Jess Jonassen drove Delhi Capitals to a slick 25run victory over Gujarat Giants in their Womens Premier League match here on SundayLanning 55 41b 6x4 1x6 was Capitals guiding force to an adequate 163 for eight despite a late flurry of wickets The Giants chase never grew wings ending up with 138 for eight despite Ashleigh Gardners welltimed 40 off 31 balls as they crashed to their fourth defeat on the bounceJonassen led Capitals bowling with a shrewd spell 322 and she received very good support from Radha Yadav 320 The win also propelled Delhi to the top of the table with six pointsAlso Read WPL 2024 DC vs GG Meg Lannings fifty guides Delhi Capitals to 1638 against Gujarat GiantsThe Gujarat side made a shaky start conceding a maiden in the very first over to WPL debutant pacer Titas Sadhu Their beginning was further marred when experienced pacer Shikha Pandey castled Laura Wolvaardt with a delivery that shaped in that tiny bit to beat her swatBut the Giants too found some flow as captain Beth Mooney and Phoebe Litchfield combined to smash 15 runs in the fourth over bowled by PandeyHowever it was just an isolated spark as the Giants stumbled against Jonassen In the fifth over the Australian spinner jettisoned Mooney and Litchfield in the space of four balls to reduce Giants to 34 for threeGardner displayed her power while hammering pacer Annabel Sutherland for two fours and a six in the 12th over to make a total of 16 runsIt might have given a tinge of hope to the Giants but Jonassen snuffed that out when she had Gardner stumped by Taniya Bhatia Before that Yadav bagged the crucial wickets of Veda Krishnamoorthy and Kathryn Bryce as Gujarat struggled to stitch together any meaningful partnershipAlso Read IN PHOTOS Team Indias sheer dominance in world cricketEarlier Lanning used her experience to pace her innings well and build a couple of good partnerships after Giants opted to field firstShafali Verma 13 9b as usual flew off the traps with a six and four off leftarm spinner Tanuja Kanwar but her cameo came to an end very soonVermas uppish flick of pacer Meghana Singh the most successful Gujarat bowler with a fourwicket haul went straight to Wolvaardt near backward square legThe dismissal brought Lanning who was dropped on 30 and inform Alice Capsey together They scored 38 runs for the second wicket helping Delhi to reach 51 for 1 in the Power Play segmentOnce Capsey departed an edgy Jemimah Rodrigues 7 off 10 helped Lanning add 47 runs for the third wicket Lanning shed her lowgear approach during this passage to pull some top shots out of the draw such as a massive hit for six over longoff off Kathryn BryceLanning reached her fifty in 39 balls but could not stay in the middle for long as her slash off Meghana settled in the hands of D Hemalatha at cover pointThe return of Lanning to the dugout dashed Delhis attempt to up the scoring rate as they lost wickets at regular intervals and also failed to fetch a boundary for 24 balls between 152 and 193 overs But by then they had put enough runs on the boardThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever