{"id":361696,"date":"2026-01-09T22:50:04","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T22:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/361696\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T22:50:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T22:50:04","slug":"wpl-2026-results-nadine-de-klerk-downs-nat-sciver-brunt-to-give-rcb-win-over-mi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/361696\/","title":{"rendered":"WPL 2026 results: Nadine De Klerk downs Nat Sciver-Brunt to give RCB win over MI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">South Africa all-rounder Nadine de Klerk clubbed 20 off Nat Sciver-Brunt&#8217;s final four balls to secure a stunning <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/cricket\/scorecard\/e-233913\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">three-wicket win<\/a> for Royal Challengers Benglauru over Mumbai Indians in the Women&#8217;s Premier League opener. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Chasing 155, RCB&#8217;s chances looked slim as they fell to 65-5 in the eighth over and then 121-7 after 17.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They left them needing 34 off 18 balls and that was only reduced to 29 off the final two overs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The penultimate over went 11 to leave 18 required and De Klerk, who was well set, ensured the 2024 champions started with a win. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">England captain Sciver-Brunt started with successive dot balls before De Klerk hit a six, four and six off the next three balls.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It left RCB needing two off the final delivery to beat the defending champions and De Klerk crunched Sciver-Brunt back over her head to seal a remarkable victory. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 25-year-old had starred with the ball earlier too, claiming 4-26 to reduce Mumbai to 154-6.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She removed Sciver-Brunt for four in the first over after the powerplay, before returning to remove Harmanpreet Kaur (20) in the 11th.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She also bowled the final over of the innings, removing Sajeevan Sajana (45) and Nicola Carey (40) as it went for just five. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">England seamer Lauren Bell also impressed on her RCB debut, claiming figures of 1-14 in her four overs. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"South Africa all-rounder Nadine de Klerk clubbed 20 off Nat Sciver-Brunt&#8217;s final four balls to secure a stunning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":361697,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-361696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}