'We are trying to cover all those bases' - Delhi Capitals Women coach hopeful of successful WPL 2025

Delhi Capitals Women are bracing for the third edition of the Women’s Premier League. The team had an outstanding 2024 season but faltered at the end against Royal Challengers Bengaluru and the trophy slipped away from their grasp. They entered the playoffs winning six out of their eight games and were the most dreaded camp throughout the league stages. 

Particularly, their batting was the USP as they set tough targets and chased the same with ease. Delhi will be keen to replicate the same this year but with a different outcome in the ultimate tussle if they make it. Ahead of the WPL 2025 scheduled to commence on February 14, Jonathan Batty, head coach of the DC, has stated that the wickets the team played on last year, namely in Delhi and Lucknow, aided them immensely and it was good fortune to have access to such wickets. 

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“We’ve been really lucky the last two years that the wickets we’ve played on have been absolutely fantastic, and we’ve seen some really competitive high-scoring games. Again, we’re just taking it game by game, assessing the conditions as we go. We were really lucky with the practice facility we had in Pune – we practised on black soil and red soil wickets. So we’re trying to cover all those bases without really knowing necessarily what we’re going to find,” said Batty as quoted by News18. 

“Here in the Kotambi stadium, it’s a fantastic wicket. Obviously, the Indian women played a series here recently (against Ireland) that was really high-scoring. So I expect the wickets to be fantastic from that angle. As always with cricket, you have to assess those conditions when you get on the field, and you try and do those assessments beforehand,” he added.

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