The Women’s Premier League has started in a very spectacular way and as expected, this league is full of entertainment for the fans. In the second match of this league, Smriti Mandhana’s Royal Challengers Bangalore and Meg Lanning’s Delhi Capitals were face to face. In this match, Delhi Capitals defeated RCB and registered their first league win. And a player from Delhi Capitals made a big record in the first match.
Delhi Capitals fast bowler Tara Norris made a big record in the second Women’s Premier League match. Norris took five wickets against RCB. With this, she got his name registered in the record book. Tara Norris has become the first player to take a five-wicket haul in the Women’s Premier League. Tara took five wickets for 29 runs in this match.
Fast bowler Tara Norris sent big batters to the pavilion against RCB. Norris took the first wicket in the form of star all-rounder Perry. Disha Kasat is her second victim in the same over itself. After this, Tara came with the next dismissal, Richa Ghosh and Kanika Ahuja. Ultimately, she dismissed Heather Knight, who was batting well for RCB.
America’s Tara Norris was the second-highest wicket-taker for the Southern Vipers in the 2020 Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy. The left-arm bowler troubled the batters with his swinging deliveries. She took 12 wickets at an average of 17.91. She previously played for both Vipers and Loughborough Lightning in the Kia Super League and was signed in December 2020. Since then, she did not look back and was bought by the Delhi team in the Women’s Premier League for Rs 10 lakh. The 24-year-old Tara has done wonders for Delhi in the very first match.
In this match played at Brabourne Stadium, RCB skipper Smriti Mandhana won the toss and decided to bowl, which did not go in the team’s favour. Batting first, Delhi Capitals gave RCB a mountain target of 224 runs thanks to the fiery innings of Meg Lanning and Shafali Verma. In response, RCB scored only 163 runs at the loss of 8 wickets.