Gujarat Giants vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru Women WPL 2025 Today Match Prediction & Where to Watch Live Streaming?
The Women’s Premier League (WPL) is back with another enthralling season of women’s cricket. The WPL 2025 season kicks-off on 14th February, 2025, on the occassion of the Valentine’s Day. It will be the hosts Gujarat Giants vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) Women’s team in that will fight it out in the opening match of the season.
GUJ-W vs RCB-W Preview
The Women’s Premier League (WPL) 2025 season opener will be played between the hosts Gujarat Giants and the defending champions Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) Women’s team. The match will be played on 14th February, 2025 live from the Kotambi Stadium in Vadodara.
It has not been a great venture for the Gujarat Giants in the Women’s Premier League (WPL) for the Giants. In the first two seasons of the competition, they finished at the bottom of the points table. As for the Royal Challengers Bengaluru, they failed to qualify for the next phase in 2023 season but went on all the way to lift the Trophy in 2024 season.
The opening match between the Gujarat Giants and the RCB Women’s team will set the tone for the next one month of spectacular T20 cricket.
The hosts have a good squad led by captain Ashleigh Gardner. The team’s major star batter is Australian wicket-keeper batter Beth Mooney. She has been in great form recently as she scored 213 runs in 3 innings vs Australia with a strike rate of 146.90.
As for bowling, captain Ashleigh Gardner will be taking a major responsibility. If she can carry on her recent Form from the WBBL 2024 and the Women’s Ashes vs England, there is going to be a major spotlight on Gardner.
As for Royal Challengers Bengaluru Women’s team, they will be led by victorious captain and one of stalwart of the Indian cricket team, Smriti Mandhana. She will also have the responsibility of leading the batting attack with star Australian all-rounder Ellyse Perry.
The RCB squad is packed star power and quality cricketers in the womens. Perry and Smriti will have the company of Danielle Wyatt, all-rounder Sophie Molineux, Georgia Wareham, Heather Graham, Shreyanka Patil, Renuka Singh Thakur, Kim Garth. It is almost a guarantee that RCB will not lack star power and some fireworks.
GG vs RCB Women WPL 2025 Match Winner Prediction
The defending champions Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) Women’s team is the pre-match favourite to start their title defence with a win here. Although the Gujarat Giants are host for this match, the team likely to rely a lot on the likes of Beth Mooney and Ashleigh Gardner, which is never a good thing. On the other hand, there is quality everywhere for the RCB Women’s team, be it batting, bowling or all-round skills. In depth in batting will particularly help the RCB Women in this match. So we believe the Smriti Mandhana led side will begin their title defence with a win here.
Where to watch Gujarat Giants vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) Women WPL 2025 Match?
The upcoming Women’s Premier League (WPL) 2025 season match between the Gujarat Giants and the RCB Women will be available for live telecast on Star Sports Network TV channels and live streaming will be on Disney+Hotstar app and website.
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