A fan at the Kotambi Stadium in Vadodara was awestruck by Richa Ghosh's heroics in the Women's Premier League (WPL) 2025 opener on Friday. In a video shared by the Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) franchise on the social media platform of X, he said her winning six reminded him of AB de Villiers.
De Villiers, an icon of RCB's men's team from 2011 to 2021, featured in 145 matches for the decorated franchise and mustered 4522 runs at 41.10 alongside a strike rate of 158.33. Meanwhile, Ghosh helped Bengaluru stage a remarkable comeback while chasing a daunting 202 against the Gujarat Giants on Friday as she struck an unbeaten 27-ball 64. She completed the highest run-chase in WPL history by hammering a maximum off Deandra Dottin off mid-wicket, helping the defending champions off to a winning start.
Below is the video of the same:
"I wanted to take it deep" - Richa Ghosh
Following the commanding win, the keeper-batter revealed that the match situations practised in their pre-season camp with head coach Luke Williams helped massively. Ghosh also opined that keeping small targets in mind equally assisted them and said, as quoted by ESPN Cricinfo:
"The plan was to take some time, and see how the pitch is reacting. I wanted to take it deep, and I focused on my game. We [Ahuja and I] thought we could get to the total, and that we would play a positive game. The preparation we did with sir [head coach Luke Williams] really helped us. We had a lot of match situation during practice matches. We kept targets that if the situation is so and so then what should we be doing. That helped me a lot."
