WPL 2024: Chamari Athapaththu's Controversial LBW Leaves Alyssa Healy in Utter Shock | WATCH

Chamari Athapaththu’s controversial leg before wicket (lbw) dismissal left UP Warriorz (UPW) captain Alyssa Healy, who was batting at the other end, stunned during their Women’s Premier League (WPL) 2024 clash against Royal Challengers Bangalore at the M.Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru on Monday.

The incident happened in the eighth over of the second innings as UP Warriorz tried to chase down RCB’s daunting total.

Leg spinner Georgia Wareham tossed the ball up as Athapaththu missed her sweep shot and was hit on the front leg.

The umpire decided not out as Royal Challengers Bangalore captain Smriti Mandhana called for a DRS. Hawkeye predicted that the ball pitched on leg and would go on to hit the stumps.

Wareham had bowled a leg-spinner but the ball-tracking technology showed the ball going the other way, leaving Athapaththu and Healy stunned.

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Earlier, Mandhana (80, 50b, 10×4, 3×6) and Ellyse Perry (58, 37b, 4×4, 4×6) added 95 runs off just 64 balls for the second wicket as Royal Challengers made a formidable 198 for three. The Warriorz’s chase did not have much to write home about except a fifty (55, 38b, 7×4, 3×6) by captain Alyssa Healy as it ended at 175/8.

But the visitors made a cracking beginning to their innings scoring 47 in just 4.2 overs as Healy and Kiran Navgire tore into RCB bowlers after a first-over maiden by pacer Renuka Singh.

Healy moussed two sixes off pacer Sophie Devine in the second over to start the run glut, and then hammered Renuka for 24 runs in the next over as Navgire also took part in the fun with a four and six.

But Devine ended that partnership when she ousted Navgire and her dismissal cooled down the run-collection rate.

The ever-mounting asking rate forced the UP batters to go after big shots as they lost Chamari Athapathuthu (8), in-form Grace Harris (5) and Shweta Sehrawat (1) while adding 26 runs between the seventh and 10th over.

At 90 for four after 10 overs, the burden of taking the UP outfit past the target was entirely on Healy and she tried gamely with a 34-ball fifty.

But left-arm spinner Sophie Molineux curtailed her stint as Healy failed to connect a tossed-up ball on middle and leg and Richa Ghosh did the rest behind the stumps.

Deepti Sharma (33, 22b) Poonam Khemnar (31, 24b) added 41 runs for the sixth wicket but they had one too many runs to scale down.

This was also the last game of WPL’s Bengaluru leg as the caravan now rolls to New Delhi from Tuesday.

(With inputs from Agencies)