In the 19th league match of the Women’s Premier League 2024, the Royal Challengers Bangalore team qualified for the playoffs by defeating Mumbai Indians. With this, RCB team is in the race to win the title along with Mumbai Indians and Delhi Capitals. The teams of UP Warriors and Gujarat Giants are out of the tournament. There is one league match left in the tournament, which is going to be between Delhi Capitals and Gujarat team. As soon as the result of this match comes, one team will directly enter the final.
This is how the first finalist will be decided
The teams of Delhi Capitals (number-1) and Mumbai Indians (number-2) are at top-2 in the points table. Mumbai Indian managed to collect 10 points with 5 wins by playing all its 8 league matches. At the same time, Delhi Capitals has to play its last match with Gujarat. Delhi team has 10 points in 7 matches. If the team is successful in registering victory over Gujarat then it will directly reach the finals of this tournament. Delhi will get 12 points and the team topping the points table becomes the first finalist of this tournament. At the same time, if Delhi has to face defeat, then Mumbai and Delhi, the team which has better run rate, will become the first finalist, because both will have 10 points each.
The second finalist will be found from the eliminator match
At the same time, the team which will be at second position after the last league match between Delhi and Gujarat. He will face Royal Challengers Bangalore in the eliminator match. Smriti Mandhana’s RCB has 8 points with 4 wins after playing all 8 league matches and the team is at third position. The eliminator match will be played on March 15 at Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi. At the same time, the title match of the tournament will be played in Delhi on March 17. There was a title battle between Delhi and Mumbai in WPL 2023, in which Mumbai won.
