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UPW vs RCB Highlights: Voll, Navgire, Ecclestone Knock RCB Out Despite Richa Ghosh’s Cracking 69

Aakash Saini

Ellyse Perry and Georgia Wareham congratulating Georgia Voll [Source: @StarSportsIndia/x]Ellyse Perry and Georgia Wareham congratulating Georgia Voll [Source: @StarSportsIndia/x]

UP Warriorz knocked defending champions RCB out of the WPL 2025 playoffs race by securing a huge win in match 18 of the competition at the Ekana Stadium in Lucknow. Georgia Voll played the headline act in Warriorz’ win with a record WPL knock.

Here’s the timeline of how UP Warriorz vs RCB panned out in Lucknow:

Kiran Navgire Goes Berserk After Fiery Opening Stand

UP Warriorz openers Grace Harris and Georgia Voll extracted 67 runs from the opening powerplay, and raced to 77-0 in just seven overs. Harris listed 39 of those runs from just 22 deliveries with seven boundaries and a huge six before a runout from Smriti Mandhana and Georgia Wareham halted her well-set stay.

Kiran Navgire at number three sustained UP Warriorz’ early momentum with a belligerent 16-ball 46 to blaze her team near the 150-run mark in just 12 overs. Clattering two boundaries and five huge sixes, Navgire even took a special liking to senior RCB fast bowler Renuka Singh with 22 runs in the 12th over of the innings.

Georgia Voll Left Stranded At 99*, Warriorz Mount 225

Georgia Wareham struck back for the RCB by getting rid of Kiran Navgire at 148-2. While the RCB leg-spinner also dismissed Chinelle Henry for just 19 a couple of overs later in the innings, unbeaten opener Georgia Voll kept marching on from her end to smear 99* off just 56 balls. The belligerent Australian batter belted 17 boundaries and a six as the UP Warriorz mounted 225-5 from 20 overs.

Charlie Dean picked up the key wicket of Sophie Ecclestone in the final over to claim expensive figures of 1-47, while Warriorz skipper Deepti Sharma fell to a runout off the last ball of the innings.

Chinelle Henry, Ecclestone Wreck RCB’s Top-Order

Chinelle Henry landed the early blow to RCB’s prospect with the huge wicket of senior opening batter and captain Smriti Mandhana for just four. Mandhana’s opening partner Sabbhineni Meghana cracked a fiery 12-ball 27 with two boundaries and two sixes but her sizzling resistance was halted by Sophie Ecclestone inside the opening powerplay.

Anjali Sarvani and Chinelle Henry (2-39) dismissed Ellyse Perry (28 off 15) and Raghvi Bist (14 off 12) in quick succession as the defending champions slipped to 80-4 in 7.3 overs. Deepti Sharma picked up her first wicket of the evening in the form of Kanika Ahuja as UP Warriorz seized full control over RCB at 107-5 around the halfway stage of the run-chase.

Richa Ghosh, Rana Keep RCB In The Hunt Before Last-Over Defeat

Reeling at 107-5 in 11 overs, RCB wicketkeeper-batter Richa Ghosh bludgeoned 69 runs off 33 balls with six fours and five huge sixes. Ghosh’s cracking rebuttal, a 64-run partnership with Georgia Wareham, kept RCB in the game until the belligerent half-centurion was holed out by Chinelle Henry off Deepti Sharma at 171-6.

Sophie Ecclestone further piled on RCB’s misery with the quick wickets of Charlie Dean and Georgia Wareham to bag astonishing figures of 3-25 in the high-scoring evening. Amidst RCB’s dwindling fortunes at 183-8, Sneh Rana blasted three huge sixes and two boundaries to slap a scintillating six-ball 26, but a third wicket for Deepti Sharma (3-50) sealed the deal for the UP Warriorz by 12 runs in a thrilling final-over finish.