DC vs RCB, WPL 2025 Highlights: Smriti Mandhana's blazing 81 powers RCB to dominant eight-wicket win over Delhi Capitals

And that wraps up a one-sided affair, with Bengaluru registering a commanding win to boost their net run rate and remain the only unbeaten team in the competition. The action continues in the 2025 Women's T20 League on Tuesday, 18th February, with the penultimate game of the Vadodara leg, where Gujarat will take on Mumbai here at the BCA Stadium. The first ball will be bowled at 7.30 pm IST (2 pm GMT), but as always, our build-up will start well in advance. See you then. Cheers!

Renuka Singh Thakur is the PLAYER OF THE MATCH for her brilliance with the ball. She says she earned the Player of the Series award during the series against West Indies on this ground so, she was positive coming into this leg. Tells she is working on her pace and outswingers. Mentions she varies her bowling technique to get some rhythm

Smriti Mandhana, the captain of Bengaluru, says the bowlers did a great job to restrict Delhi to such a low total. Credits the way they fielded as well and thinks they saved 15-20 runs. Tells the strategy was to bowl more pace but conditions offered more to the spinners. Tells that she and Danni Wyatt-Hodge have batted a lot together and they batted well and the shots came off today.

Time for the presentation ceremony...

Danni Wyatt-Hodge is in for a chat. She shares that she did say in the team huddle to make it two in two and they got the job done. Tells Mandhana was her coach tonight. Adds they have played together before in other tournaments. Mentions the pitch was slightly on the slower side and Mandhana helped her with it.

The skipper of Delhi, Meg Lanning says it was not their best night. Mentions that Bengaluru bowled well in the middle phase and they as a batting unit got starts but couldn't convert those. Feels that the games come thick and fast, so there is not much time to dwell on the loss and hopes to bounce back in the next game. Shares that batting got easier as the night went on.

Earlier, after being inserted into bat, Delhi lost Shafali Verma for a duck. Meg Lanning and Jemimah Rodrigues quickly steadied the ship and made the Powerplay count. Bengaluru came roaring back in the middle phase, and Delhi’s innings began to unravel. From a promising 60/1, they lost their way with some dismissals being the result of their own undoing. With three wickets each, Renuka Singh Thakur and Georgia Wareham played a pivotal role in bowling Delhi out for 141.

There was help on offer with the new ball, but Delhi couldn’t capitalize. Smriti Mandhana quickly found the boundaries to ease off the early jitters, and soon, boundaries began to flow from Danni Wyatt-Hodge's bat as well. With both batters ticking along nicely, Bengaluru took the bull by the horns and put the game beyond Delhi's reach with a 107-run opening stand. Mandhana was at her classy best, finishing with a superb 81, her highest score in the tournament's history.

Bengaluru make it two from two with a clinical chase! They cap off the Vadodara leg with this professional performance and head home riding high on confidence. It was one-way traffic in the second half of the game, with the dew and challenging conditions making things even tougher for Delhi. It wasn’t going to be a straightforward chase for Bengaluru, though. A few balls gripped the surface, and batting proved more challenging than it had been in some of the earlier games, as evidenced in the first innings.

Arundhati Reddy to Richa Ghosh, SIX! Richa Ghosh ends in style. Serves it short and on middle, Ghosh pulls it over deep fine leg and it goes all the way. Bengaluru win by 8 wickets. 

Arundhati Reddy to Ellyse Perry, Shaping on the pads. Perry flicks it to deep square leg for a single.

Shikha Pandey to Richa Ghosh, Surprises with a bouncer outside off. Ghosh looks to pull but misses.

Shikha Pandey to Richa Ghosh, FOUR! Just three runs away! A juicy half-volley outside off. Ghosh creams it to the left of mid off, no chance for the fielder there. 

Shikha Pandey to Ellyse Perry, Length ball on middle and leg, Perry turns it through mid-wicket for one more.

Shikha Pandey to Richa Ghosh, A full toss tailing on the pads. Ghosh whips it to deep square leg for one.

Shikha Pandey to Richa Ghosh, Too full and outside off, Richa Ghosh drives it to cover.

Strategic break! Just the last rites left to be written in this game. Bengaluru have made light work of a tricky total, with Smriti Mandhana leading the charge. Since the stand between Meg Lanning and Jemimah Rodrigues was broken, not much has gone Delhi’s way. With the dew settling in, their job with the ball was made even tougher. Richa Ghosh walks out to bat.

Shikha Pandey to Smriti Mandhana, OUT! TAKEN! End of a brilliant innings from Mandhana! She has lit up the ground today with this performance. Shikha Pandey goes full and on middle, Mandhana steps across and tries to paddle, she mistimes and it lobs to short fine leg where Arundhati Reddy takes it. Mandhana goes but she has definitely booked the two points.

Arundhati Reddy to Ellyse Perry, This one comes in late, it is on middle, Perry chops it to point.

Arundhati Reddy to Ellyse Perry, Bowls it full and outside off, Perry plays with an angled bat to backward point.

Arundhati Reddy to Ellyse Perry, Length ball, outside off, Perry punches it to mid off. 

Arundhati Reddy to Smriti Mandhana, Full and shaping on middle, Mandhana eases it to long on for one.

Arundhati Reddy to Smriti Mandhana, Very full and outside off, Mandhana firmly drives it to mid off. 

Arundhati Reddy to Ellyse Perry, Tails it on the pads. Perry nudges it behind square leg for a single.

Jess Jonassen to Smriti Mandhana, SIX! Clean strike! Jess gives the ball air and keeps it on off, Smriti gets in the line of the ball by moving across and takes a couple of steps down the track. Nails the slog sweep to the right of deep mid-wicket for a flat six.

Jess Jonassen to Ellyse Perry, Speared in, short and on middle, Perry flicks it to mid-wicket for one.

Jess Jonassen to Ellyse Perry, Flat and short, on off, played to cover by Perry.

Jess Jonassen to Smriti Mandhana, Short and on off, Mandhana knocks it down to long on for one.

Jess Jonassen to Smriti Mandhana, FOUR! Class written all over it! Tossed up, on off, Smriti Mandhana skips down the track and gets to the pitch of it. Lofts it over cover for a boundary.

Jess Jonassen to Smriti Mandhana, Floated up, around off, Mandhana gets down for the sweep but misses and gets hit on the pads outside the line of the off stump.

Annabel Sutherland to Ellyse Perry, Fuller and on the pads, Perry flicks it to mid-wicket.

Annabel Sutherland to Smriti Mandhana, Short and wide on off, Mandhana cuts it towards backward point where Jess Jonassen makes a half-stop. The ball gets parried away for one.

Annabel Sutherland to Smriti Mandhana, FOUR! Up and over! With an upright seam, on a good length, Mandhana stays deep in the crease and pumps it over mid off for a boundary.

Annabel Sutherland to Ellyse Perry, On a length, on off, Perry runs it down to deep third for one.

Annabel Sutherland to Smriti Mandhana, Lands it on a back of a length, on middle, Mandhana pulls it through mid-wicket for a run.

Annabel Sutherland to Smriti Mandhana, On a back of a length, on off, Mandhana steers it to short third.

Jess Jonassen to Smriti Mandhana, Full and on off, driven to deep cover for one.

Jess Jonassen to Smriti Mandhana, Pushed through, on off, on a length, Smriti Mandhana has a swipe across the line but gets a bottom edge and it dribbles towards the keeper.

Jess Jonassen to Ellyse Perry, In the air... but a massive miscommunication and no one goes for the catch! Full and around off, Perry presses forward and looks to go over mid off. Skies it straight up between cover and mid off and neither Meg Lanning from cover nor Annabel Sutherland at mid off go for it. They leave it for each other and the ball lands between them. A single is taken.

Jess Jonassen to Smriti Mandhana, Short and on off, Mandhana punches it to deep point for one.

Jess Jonassen to Ellyse Perry, Sliding onto the pads, short in length, Perry tucks it to deep backward square leg for a run.

Jess Jonassen to Smriti Mandhana, Looped up, around off, Mandhana walks across and sweeps it through mid-wicket for a single.

Arundhati Reddy to Ellyse Perry, On the off stump line, on a good length, stabbed down to cover by Perry.

Ellyse Perry is the new batter in.

Arundhati Reddy to Danni Wyatt-Hodge, OUT! TAKEN! Finally, a wicket for Delhi but the damage has been done! A leg-cutter from Reddy, around off, on a length, Danni Wyatt-Hodge makes room to go big on the off side. She fails to get the power behind the shot and mistimes the shot in front of deep point. Jemimah Rodrigues runs in off the ropes and makes no mistake this time as she takes it around her chest. The 107-run opening stand is broken.

Arundhati Reddy to Smriti Mandhana, Lands it on a back of a length, on off, Mandhana jabs it to the left of long on for one.

Arundhati Reddy to Danni Wyatt-Hodge, Serves it on a nagging length, around off, Danni punches it to deep cover for one.

Arundhati Reddy to Danni Wyatt-Hodge, Two leg byes! Sliding onto the pads, on a length, Danni has a swipe across the line. She fails to connect and the ball rolls off the pads towards short third where a fumble from Mani allows the batters to take the second run.

Arundhati Reddy to Smriti Mandhana, On a length, on off, Mandhana drives it to deep cover for a single.

Marizanne Kapp to Danni Wyatt-Hodge, FOUR! The Delhi players continue to chase the white ball! Too full and in the slot outside off. Danni Wyatt-Hodge crunches it to the right of deep extra cover for a boundary. 14 runs off the over. 100 up as well.