WPL 2023: Who is Tara Norris? The USA star who picked up five-wicket haul for the DEL-W- All you need to know

USA's left-arm speedster Tara Norris was at her majestic best in the inaugural edition of the ongoing Women's Premier League as she snared a five-for in the match against Royal Challengers Bangalore to help Delhi Capitals win the second match of the event.

As far as the game is concerned, Capitals won the contest by 60 runs. Skipper Meg Lanning and her opening partner Shafali Verma looked in amazing touch, notching up 72 runs off 43 deliveries and 84 runs off 45 deliveries respectively. Norris chipped in with her match-winning figures of 5/29 with the ball in four overs. 

Earlier, the knocks of the openers backed by Marizanne Kapp and Jemimah Rodrigues rocked the RCB bowling line-up. With Kapp’s 39* runs off 17 deliveries and Rodrigues’s 22* off 15 deliveries, DC gave a massive target of 224 to their opponents.

Defending the huge total, DC struggled in the first four overs of the RCB innings but it was Alice Capsey who broke the opening pair of captain Smriti Mandhana and Sophie Devine, trapping the latter at an individual score of 14.

However, unfazed by Devine’s wicket, the batters at the crease - Mandhana and Ellyse Perry strived to set the tone. But Capsey troubled RCB again in her second over claiming Mandhana's wicket while she was batting at 35 runs (23 deliveries). With the loss of two big wickets, RCB looked under pressure but it was Perry, who fought valiantly with her rapid 31 that came off just 19 deliveries.

Perry got dismissed by Norris. After the veteran’s wicket, RCB's batting faltered as Norris played the role of a wrecker-in-chief getting the scalps of Disha Kasat (9 runs), Richa Ghosh (2 runs), and Kanika Ahuja (0). 

However, in the end, Heather Knight’s 34 runs off 21 deliveries and Megan Schutt’s unbeaten 30-run innings that came off 19 deliveries helped the team to post 163/8 in 20 overs and saved them from a humiliating defeat in their opening game.

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