GG vs DC WPL HIGHLIGHTS: Gujarat Giants Beat Delhi Capitals By Five Wickets To Keep Playoffs Hopes Alive

Shikha to bowl out. Starts with a dot and Harleen finds a single on the next. Kashvee Gautam off the mark with a single. Harleen gets plenty of height on the ball but it lands safely on the leg-side. Kashvee on strike. Six. The youngster slams it over the wide long on fence. 

Shikha back. Four. Harleen slices it towards an empty deep point region. Gets to her 50. Gardner on strike now and thats out. Tries to go over deep mid-wicket but doesn't get on it. Minnu completes a safe, momentum-changing catch. 

Ashleigh Gardner c Mani b Pandey 22 (13)

Deandra Dottin off the mark with a single. Six. Dottin ends the over on a positive note. 13 coming off it. 

Kapp to bowl out. Just going down leg, Gardner cannot get a touch on it but shoots down the pitch for an extra run. Kapp reloads and thats called a wide again. DC reviews the decision and is called a fair delivery. 

Jess Jonassen into the attack. A couple of singles and Harleen goes down the ground. Tossed up and jus outside off, Harleen moves back and launches it over the bowler. Shafali tries to catch it, running from long-off but isn't quite there. 

Titas Sadhu with the ball. Short and wide to start the over, Harleen reaches out to swipe it but can't get to it. 

Kapp continues. Four. Mooney finds the boundary after a longish wait. Steps down the track and thumps it past and over mid-off. A run-out attempt and Harleen Doel would have been out at the non-striker's end, if it was a direct hit. Five off the over. 

GG needs 178 to win. A strong start by its openers Beth Mooney and D Hemlatha will be crucial. 

Lanning starts with a four between deep mid-wicket and long-on. A couples of singles taken and Lanning back on strike. Four and Lanning is into the 90s. Clicks it over the inside ring on the off-side. OUT. Castled on the next and a wonderful innings by the skipper comes tro an end. 

Meg Lanning b Dottin 92 (57)

Sarah Bryce gets one ball and launches over deep point fence. A long check to bounce towards the cushion but thats six. 

Tanuja bowls her fourth over. Four. Litchfield with a rare misfield, does not pick up the ball and lets it roll to the fence. Four more. Lanning lofts it over Gardner at mid-off. Ends with a yorker that Kapp could not pt it away. 

Priya continues. A failed run-out attempt. That could have been the game for Lanning. Bharti's throw back to Priya could not be collected properly. Four. Lanning steps down the track and pierces it through point. Seven off it. Timeout. 

Dottin returns. Starts with a wide. OUT. Yorker and plumb on the stumps. Jonassen stepped down but misjudged the length, watchesher middle stump gets dislodged. 

Jess Jonassen b Dottin 9 (10)

Jemimah Rodrigues off the mark with a single. 

Meghna Singh with the ball. A bit of movement but the short ball is punished by Lanning between short third and backward point. Four. Baton passed onto Shafali, who slams it over cover for six. 12 runs off the over.

Four. Kashvee bowls it wide on off and Lanning slashes it away behind backward point. Gets the next one to come back into the stumps. No run. Four again. The most dangerous inside edge that flies past the stumps and keeper to the fence. 9 runs. 

Deandra Dottin to start the proceedings. Starts with a full ball on leg-stump. Lanning puts it away to the on side. Four, a steaky one. Just enough width for Lanning but only manages an edge that slips by a long way. Four more. Opens the face of the bat and puches it past point. Misfield and that four. Flicks towards mid-wicket, who lets it goes through her. 

Delhi Capitals: Meg Lanning (capt), Shafali Verma, Jess Jonassen, Jemimah Rodrigues, Annabel Sutherland, Marizanne Kapp, Sarah Bryce (wk), Niki Prasad, Shikha Pandey, Minnu Mani, Titas Sadhu

Gujarat Giants: Beth Mooney (wk), Harleen Deol, Ashleigh Gardner (capt), Dayalan Hemalatha, Deandra Dottin, Kashvee Gautam, Phoebe Litchfield, Bharti Fulmali, Tanuja Kanwar, Meghna Singh, Priya Mishra

Gardner: Feels like a good surface and the potential of dew played a part in her decision (to bowl). The Giants are unchanged, fielding the same side which won against UP Warriorz.

Lanning: Looks a really good batting track, and that if teams can put up a good score, they have done well too. Titas Sadhu comes in for Charani.

GG wins the toss, opts to bowl. 

Matches: 5

DC: 4

GG: 1

Hello and welcome to our coverage of the 17th match of WPL 2025, where the Gujarat Giants will take on the Ekana Cricket stadium in Lucknow.