11:39 PM IST, Local Time | Another explosive WPL season comes to a close as the RCB Women's team scripts history and wins the first ever trophy for their franchise! Will the men's side be able to repeat the feat?
All the answers will start to unfold in less than one week's time as India's biggest cricket festival graces our lives! IPL 2024 is coming soon! Stay Tuned!
Until then, this is Anirudh Modi, signing off along with my co-commentators Sidharth Gulati and Deepak Prakash, and our scorers/analysts Zeeshan Naiyer and Chandan KR Singh! See you on the next one!
Smriti Mandhana walks onto the stage to collect the WPL 2024 trophy! The entire RCB Women team and support staff join her in celebrations! The fireworks and confetti goes off and RCB can finally celebrate into the night!
Smriti Mandhana (Royal Challengers Bangalore Skipper): "It still hasn't sunk in. Will take time. I'm really proud of the team. We stuck together. Happy to get over the line in the finale. We did well in the Bengaluru leg. Came to Delhi and lost two matches. It's great that we made a comeback. The management backed my ideas. They showed full faith in me. All thanks to them. The title win means a lot to the fans. One of my top-5 wins. A World Cup victory would always stay No. 1. One statement that always comes up is Ee Saala Cup Namde. Finally, I want to say Ee Saala Cup Namdu. It was important to say it for the fans."
Royal Challengers Bangalore Women players and support staff receive the winner award for WPL 2024. Smriti Mandhana receives the cheque.
Meg Lanning (Delhi Capitals Women Captain): "Disappointed not to get it done tonight. We feel we played some good cricket in the tournament but we could not pull it off today. Congratulations to RCB, they played really well.
As we say, crazy things happen here, every game is close and you cannot rest. There are many good players and teams out there, unfortunately we could not get it done tonight. [To the young players] We have played good cricket and we did a lot of things right.
Just want to thank everyone in the backroom and support staff for their contribution this season, but unfortunately we could not do it tonight."