I'm really happy the way Richa and Radha contributed – Shreyanka Patil

Shreyanka Patil drove home to the knockout blow against Gujarat Giants, registering her first fifer of her WPL career. Coming back from injury, Patil has been in phenomenal touch as her excellent run in the tournament continued. Patil equalled Nandni Sharma’s haul at the top with eight wickets from the last three games.

She claimed the prized scalps of Beth Mooney, Kanika Ahuja, Kashvee Gautam, Tanuja Kanwar and Renuka Singh as RCB drove home to their third win on the trot. Talking at the post-match presentation, Shreyanka heaped endless praise on Radha Yadav for her match-winning knock. She also underlined how special the partnership between Richa Ghosh and Radha Yadav truly was.

Shedding light on Radha’s incredible innings and her partnership with Richa Ghosh, Shreyanka said, “Firstly, I would love to give the credits to Radha because if not for her innings, I don't think so we would have put that total up on the board. I'm really happy the way Richa and Radha contributed in the first innings, knowing they were four down, we were 40 for 4, and then to just play those innings, I think it's massive impact and it gave us a lot of confidence seeing that 170-180 on the board.”

Talking about the conditions in play, Shreyanka said, “Gave us a lot of confidence knowing dew is gonna play a major role. We knew the last couple of games, we saw huge dew, heavy dew coming into picture because the last two games we've played on this wicket, we didn't face that much of dew. So we were ready for dew today and I think the bowlers did tremendously well.”