WPL 2025: Records Broken In GGW vs RCB

Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCBW) created history on Friday (14 February 2025) by successfully chasing the target of 202 runs in the first match of WPL 2025. Many big records were also made in this high-scoring match played at Kotambi Stadium in Vadodara against Gujarat Giants (GGW). 

Here we are going to look at some historical records made in the GGW vs RCB match.

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WPL 2025: Historical records made in GGW vs RCB match

1. Royal Challengers Bangalore made a successful run chase of 202 runs in this match, which is the biggest successful run chase in WPL history. In this instance, the Mumbai Indians’ 191-run successful run chase record against the Gujarat Giants in Delhi in 2024 was surpassed by RCB.
2. Royal Challengers Bangalore’s successful run chase of 202 against Gujarat Giants is also the second-highest successful run chase in women’s T20 cricket history. In 2023 at North Sound, the West Indies women’s team had previously defeated the Australia women’s team by successfully chasing 213 runs.
3. Bangalore chased 202 runs after the Giants, who batted first in this game, scored 201. A total of 403 runs were scored in this match, which has now become the highest run match in WPL history.
4. The Gujarat Giants batted first in this game and amassed 201/5, their joint-highest WPL total. Earlier, they had made their highest total (201/7) against Royal Challengers Bangalore in 2024 at Brabourne Stadium.
5. The Giants and Royal Challengers Bangalore together hit 16 sixes in this match, which is the most sixes in a single WPL match. Earlier, 19 sixes were hit in a match played between RCB and DC in Bangalore in 2024.
6. GGW hit 10 sixes in the first innings of this match, which is the second most sixes in a single WPL innings.
7. The second-highest score by a batsman batting at number five or lower in the WPL was achieved by Richa Ghosh, who scored 64* runs in 27 balls while batting at number five in this match.
8. Richa Ghosh scored runs at a strike rate of 237.03 in this match, which is the third-fastest strike rate among batsmen who have scored more than 50 runs in WPL.
9. Richa Ghosh scored a half-century in just 23 balls in this match, which is the fifth fastest in WPL history and the fastest half-century for RCBW. In the WPL, she has not accomplished this feat as quickly as Sophia Dunkley (18 balls), Shefali Verma (19 balls), Sophie Devine (20 balls), and Harmanpreet Kaur (22 balls).
10. Ashley Gardner’s 79 runs off 43 balls in this match included eight sixes, setting a new WPL record for the most sixes in an innings. Earlier, Sophia Devine had scored 99 runs with the help of eight sixes off 36 balls against the Giants at the Brabourne Stadium in 2023.
11. Richa Ghosh and Kanika Ahuja shared a 93-run partnership in this match, which is the second-highest partnership for the fifth or below wicket in WPL. Earlier, Deepti Sharma and Poonam Khemnar had put on 109* runs for the sixth wicket for UP Warriors against Gujarat Giants in Delhi in 2024.
12. The second-fastest run-rate among 50+ run partnerships in WPL history was achieved by Ghosh and Ahuja, who put on 93* runs in 37 balls at 15.08 runs per over during this match. Sophie Ecclestone and Grace Harris’ unbeaten 70* runs in 25 balls at 16.08 runs per over for Warriors against Giants in 2023 tops the list.
13. Only twice in WPL history did four batsmen score more than 50 runs in the GGW vs. RCBW match in Vadodara. The first time this feat happened was during Giants vs UP Warriors in 2023.
14. Ashleigh Gardner dismissed Smriti Mandhana for the ninth time in T20 cricket. She is the bowler who has dismissed her the most number of times in this format.
15. Beth Mooney scored her fourth 50+ score in the last five innings in WPL and all four of these scores came while batting first.
16. Ellyse Perry marked her fifth half-century in the WPL with her half-century in this game. With this, she has now come in joint second place for most half-centuries in WPL along with Harmanpreet and Shefali Verma. Meg Lanning is the only player with six more WPL half-centuries.
17. In her three overs, Georgia Wareham gave up fifty runs while taking one wicket, making it the third most costly bowling spell in a WPL innings.

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