Royal Challengers Bengaluru entered the home phase of their Women’s Premier League campaign high on confidence having won both their games in their Vadodara with comfortable chases. The first challenge that awaited them was Harmanpreet Kaur’s Mumbai Indians who had enjoyed split results in Gujarat but won the toss on Friday and chose to bowl first. The visitors were immediately subjected to a Smriti Mandhana onslaught in the powerplay before Ellyse Perry and Richa Ghosh backed it up with rapid blitzkriegs of their own to have the team well placed at 105/4 after 13 overs, the latter duo’s partnership unbeaten on 48 off just 34 deliveries. The Chinnaswamy was clearly feeling it with their two superstars going strong and things reached a fever pitch, quite literally.
The arena began to echo with loud applause and jeers, the latter presumably aimed at the women in blue. The cacophony reached such volumes that Richa Ghosh was seen pointing to her ears even with the helmet on, a privilege Harmanpreet was not afforded. The MI skipper thus decided to stick both her middle fingers in her ear lobes, a gesture that seemed to annoy the crowd even further thus raising the volumes. Nevertheless, the action carried on and as the cameras panned again on Harmanpreet, the veteran let off a slight chuckle to give away she was well aware of what she was doing.
Twitterati certainly enjoyed the passion of the Bengaluru crowd and what it brought out of the players.
Welcome to Bengaluru
Loud as hell
Crowd so loud harman has to shut her ears 🔥 pic.twitter.com/mwv2AzPDCe
— sj🐼 (@ProxyPandaa) February 21, 2025
HARMAN BE LIKE: 😂 ABEY KUCH SUNAI TO DENE DO RCB WALO pic.twitter.com/VZz7Bk4Nka
— AB Cricinfo (@ABCricinfo16) February 21, 2025
Closed it
Bully
Harman ki bullying mat karo humari koi aukaat nahi bhai aaj woh batting mein gand maar degi 😭😭😭
— CUP NAMDU (@timepasshai) February 21, 2025
Really brave captaincy from Harman by bringing amanjot into attack and she gets the reward instantly..#WPL2025
— Ict fan (@namaBengluru) February 21, 2025
Crazy
RCB crowd is so LOUD…Harman is trying to shut the noice…..🙏🏻🙏🏻🤚🏻🤚🏻🥹🥹
— Vanshuuu (@Vanshu_7x18) February 21, 2025
LOL
what is harman doing- 😭
— sam vc era (@samygilly7) February 21, 2025
Lol Harman not liking the noise absolutely love it#RCBvMI
— Sairam (@Sairam_183) February 21, 2025
Good decision
They were whistling so loudly that Harman had to shut her ears 🤣
— Vinesh Prabhu (@vlp1994) February 21, 2025
