{"id":690110,"date":"2026-01-12T02:09:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T02:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/690110\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T02:09:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T02:09:10","slug":"wpl-2026-results-sophie-devine-hits-95-and-defends-six-from-final-over-in-gg-win-over-dc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/690110\/","title":{"rendered":"WPL 2026 results: Sophie Devine hits 95 and defends six from final over in GG win over DC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">New Zealand&#8217;s Sophie Devine scored 95 and then defended six from the final over to give Gujarat Giants a thrilling <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/cricket\/scorecard\/e-233916\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">four-run win<\/b><\/a><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\"> over Delhi Capitals in the Women&#8217;s Premier League.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Devine struck seven fours and eight sixes, falling five short of making the first WPL century, but helping Gujarat post 209.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That left Delhi needing to complete the highest WPL chase but Lizelle Lee scored 86 from 54 balls as opener to give her side a real chance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fellow South African Laura Wolvaardt added 77 from just 38 balls but became one of two batters dismissed in the final over bowled by the nerveless Devine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Devine conceded a single from the first, dismissed India batter Jemimah Rodrigues with a slower ball next, bowled a dot to Marizanne Kapp before conceding a single and then had Wolvaardt caught at deep mid-wicket.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That left five runs to get from the last ball but Sneh Rana failed to connect and Gujarat snatched victory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It means they have two wins from two across the opening three days of the competition. Delhi have two defeats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Zealand&#8217;s Sophie Devine scored 95 and then defended six from the final over to give Gujarat Giants&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":690111,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4101],"tags":[1406,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-690110","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115879697796504399","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=690110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/690111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}