RCB begin WPL title defence with record chase
Richa Ghosh's innings featured seven fours and four sixes
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Defending champions RCB broke the record for the highest successful run chase in the Women's Premier League as they chased down 202 to beat Gujarat Giants by six wickets in Vadodara.
Richa Ghosh top-scored with an unbeaten 64 from just 27 deliveries to help RCB win with nine balls to spare in the opening match of the third edition of the tournament.
Kanika Ahuja added 30 off 13 in an unbroken 93-run stand with Ghosh, who was dropped first ball by Simran Shaikh.
Australia's Ellyse Perry earlier led a recovery, hitting 57 from 34 balls, after captain Smriti Mandhana and England's Danni Wyatt-Hodge fell cheaply to leave RCB wobbling on 14-2.
Perry's international team-mate Ash Gardner starred with bat and ball in a losing cause for the Giants.
The all-rounder hit an unbeaten 79 from 34 balls to help Gujarat post 201-5, the joint fourth-highest score in WPL history.
Gardner then took the early wickets of Mandhana and Wyatt-Hodge, ending with figures of 2-33.
