An hour before the first ball was bowled in Visakhapatnam on Tuesday, Delhi Capitals named Jemimah Rodrigues as their captain for the Women’s Premier League 2026 season. Later in the evening, the 25-year-old was among three DC players who played a key role in India going 2-0 up in the five-match series against Sri Lanka, with a seven-wicket win. Chasing a modest 129 runs for victory wasn’t going to be much of a challenge. Smriti Mandhana’s early wicket may have perhaps allowed Sri Lanka a sniff, but Shafali Verma teed off promptly, with Rodrigues looking in good touch again as India romped home in the 12th over. The duo decided to take on the spinners and executed their plans perfectly. Rodrigues took the aerial route more than once to up the scoring rate. And once she got her eye in, Verma joined in the fun soon enough as both players made the most of insipid bowling on a benign surface to drive India’s innings forward. The pair knocked off more than half the runs in …