The Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) franchise ended its years-long trophy drought by winning the Women’s Premier League (WPL) 2024 title. While the men’s team has not yet won the Indian Premier League (IPL) title, the women’s team was successful in winning the title in the second season of the Women’s Premier League.
As soon as Smriti Mandhana’s team won the title by defeating Delhi Capitals in the final on Sunday, Vijay Mallya, the former owner of the franchise’s men’s team, congratulated the team through social media. Former owner Vijay Mallya also tweeted for the team. Which is going very viral at the moment.
Vijay Mallya tweeted this after RCB won the WPL trophy
Vijay Mallya to RCB WPL 2024 Congratulations on winning the title. He also said that if the men’s team also wins the IPL 2024 title this year, then the happiness will double. Mallya wrote on social media platform X, ‘Hearty congratulations to RCB women’s team for winning the WPL. It would be a grand double if the RCB men’s team wins the long-awaited IPL. Good luck.’
Heartiest congratulations to the RCB Women’s Team for winning the WPL. It would be a fantastic double if the RCB Men’s Team won the IPL which is long overdue. Good Luck.
— Vijay Mallya (@TheVijayMallya) March 17, 2024
Talking about the match, Shafali Verma gave a great start to the Delhi Capitals team after winning the toss and coming to bat first. The team had scored 61 runs in the powerplay without losing any wicket. After Shafali Verma’s dismissal, the team fell apart like a pack of cards. The entire team was all out on the score of just 113 in 18.3 overs.
Smriti Mandhana (31) and Sophie Devine (32) gave a good start to the Royal Challengers Bangalore team while chasing the target of 114 runs and made a partnership of 49 runs for the first wicket. After this, Ellyse Perry scored 35 runs and Richa Ghosh played an unbeaten inning of 17 runs to take RCB to the threshold of victory.