Star India allrounder Sneh Rana on Tuesday extended her apologies, admitting to a mistake from her manager on her social media account during the Women’s Premier League game between Royal Challengers Bangalore and UP Warriorz.
Rana, who had come into the defending champions squad replacing WPL 2024 purple cap winner Shreyanka Patil, made her debut for Bangalore on Monday.
A strange moment occurred when after dismissing Deepti Sharma, the franchise’s official X account posted a video of the wicket, which was quote tweeted from Rana’s official account.
“Sneh Rana has the last laugh", RCB posted. The post from the allrounder’s account read, “Time to own what comes your way", and social media burst into a frenzy, with the situation being clear that someone else other than Rana was handling her account.
On Tuesday morning, Rana tweeted, “Apologies. Last evening’s posts during the match were wrongly posted by my manager."
Rana picked up two wickets in her debut game for RCB, that of Tahila McGrath and UP Warriorz captain Deepti (25 off 13), in successive overs to derail the chase, but the opponents clinched the game in a thriller.
England left-arm spinner Sophie Ecclestone produced a superb all-round show to hand UP Warriorz a brilliant victory over RCB.
Sent into bat, Ellyse Perry and Danni Wyatt-Hodge sparkled with the bat to guide Bangalore to 180/6.
Perry smacked an unbeaten 90 off 56 deliveries while opener Wyatt-Hodge made 57. But Ecclestone, who registered economical figures of 4-0-29-0, showed her prowess with the bat, scoring 33 off 19 deliveries to help UP Warriorz make a brilliant comeback to tie the game and take it to the Super Over, where they came out on top.
UP managed just eight runs in the super over bowled by Kim Garth. The onus was then on Bangalore captain Smriti Mandhana and Richa Ghosh to chase down the target of nine runs against Ecclestone but the latter came out on top, conceding just four runs.
Earlier, Bangalore lost Mandhana early, bowled by Deepti in the fourth over. Perry joined hands with Wyatt-Hodge and the duo shared 94 runs in 65 deliveries for the second wicket to take Bangalore forward.
