{"id":374636,"date":"2026-01-17T05:26:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T05:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/374636\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T05:26:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T05:26:11","slug":"wpl-2026-gg-vs-rcb-giants-opt-to-bowl-and-hand-debut-to-shivani-singh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/374636\/","title":{"rendered":"WPL 2026, GG vs RCB &#8211; Giants opt to bowl and hand debut to Shivani Singh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Toss Gujarat Giants opt to bowl vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru<\/p>\n<p>At the pitch report, Katey Martin said dew will play a part later in the evening. The boundaries are small, and the outfield is fast as well. Gardner, at the toss, said that the DY Patil stadium is a venue where defending totals is tough.<\/p>\n<p>RCB captain Smriti Mandhana didn&#8217;t mind losing the toss. She felt bowling first for the most part of the tournament, and then batting first much later wasn&#8217;t ideal.<\/p>\n<p>RCB and GG, with two wins, are placed first and third on the table, respectively. The winner of this game will top the table with three wins.<\/p>\n<p>Gujarat Giants: Beth Mooney (wk), Sophie Devine, Shivani Singh, Ashleigh Gardner (capt), Georgia Wareham, Bharti Fulmali, Kashvee Gautam, Kanika Ahuja, Tanuja Kanwar, Rajeshwari Gayakwad, Renuka Singh<\/p>\n<p>Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Grace Harris, Smriti Mandhana (capt), D Hemalatha, Richa Ghosh (wk), Gautami Naik, Radha Yadav, Nadine de Klerk, Arundhati Reddy, Shreyanka Patil, Linsey Smith, Lauren Bell<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toss Gujarat Giants opt to bowl vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru At the pitch report, Katey Martin said dew&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374637,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[132648,1721,36623,49,50,132647,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-374636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-bulletin","tag-cricket","tag-daily","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-package","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374636","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=374636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}