The blockbuster ladies’s T20 cricket fest got here to an finish at the moment with Mumbai Indians Girls (MUM-W) taking over Delhi Capitals Girls (DC-W) within the grand Girls’s Premier League (WPL 2025) last. Notably, the thrilling encounter was held on the Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai.
Visiting captain Meg Lanning gained the toss and invited the hosts to bat first. Regardless of not getting off to a flyer, Mumbai recovered nicely within the final phases of the match and gave Delhi a goal of 150 runs. MUM-W captain Harmanpreet Kaur bailed her staff out of early hassle with a gritty 66-run knock and stitched a vital 89-run partnership with Natalie Sciver-Brunt for the third wicket. Natalie performed a significant 30-run cameo to assist her captain. In consequence, Mumbai Indians Girls completed with 149/7 on the board.
Speaking Factors
1. Did Lanning fail to bat lengthy sufficient to maintain her staff in hunt?
In reply to the run chase, skipper Meg Lanning began robust as she was trying to set the tempo for the remainder of the Delhi Capitals Girls’s batting unit. Nonetheless, earlier than she might convert her begin into an enormous knock, all-rounder Natalie Sciver-Brunt dismissed her within the second over of the run chase. Within the following over, pacer Shabnim Ismail trapped opener Shafali Varma in entrance, to spice up Mumbai’s possibilities additional.
2. Mumbai spinners stored including stress to maintain issues in management
The highest 4 batters of DC-W had been again within the hut by the halfway of their innings as spinner Saika Ishaque and Amelia Kerr additional squeezed their batters by not permitting them to attain freely. Although the center order batter Jemimah Rodrigues tried holding the fort from one finish by counter-attacking Kerr, she finally gave her wicket away in a bid to up the scoring run fee. At that stage, DC-W had been staring down the barrel with the rating studying 67/5.
3. Marizanne Kapp’s and Niki Prasad’s resistance in useless
Star all-rounder Marizanne Kapp, after bowling decently, tried to take the sport deep and stored combating earlier than she perished after scoring 35 runs. Ismail’s disciplined bowling led Kapp to take her possibilities within the 18th which was bowled by Sciver-Brunt. Teen Niki Prasad’s resistance too went in useless as Delhi Capitals misplaced their third last of the Girls’s Premier League by an in depth margin of eight runs to elevate the WPL title for a document second time.
In the meantime, this is what the captains and the Participant of the Match (POTM) stated about how the ultimate panned out on Saturday.
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Who Stated What?
Meg Lanning, Delhi Capitals Girls and shedding skipper stated
We’ve got had one other good season however sadly couldn’t recover from the road. Full credit score to Mumbai – they’ve been wonderful all through and totally deserved their win. We couldn’t get it along with the bat, 150 was an excellent goal for us. One other partnership for a few overs may need given us an opportunity. We’re all fairly dissatisfied. (On having an extended break earlier than the ultimate) I do not suppose there’s any proper or incorrect method to do it and about acting on the evening, and so they had been too good for us tonight. We’ve got not been in a position to put our greatest performances on the board within the last, which is disappointing however that’s cricket. We prepped to do in addition to we might. It has been totally different every time. We put ourselves in an excellent place however you win some, you lose some.
Harmanpreet Kaur, Mumbai Indians Girls, profitable skipper & POTM stated
It was an awesome staff effort. I want to congratulate Delhi staff, it was not straightforward for us. On the finish of the day, you are feeling joyful, actually proud of the best way we performed. We fought until the final ball, all about being there and doing the suitable issues repeatedly. (On her batting method) It was not straightforward once I went in. However I had that perception that if I stayed there and stored rotating strike, and with Nat there, I didn’t must take dangers. Simply needed to assist her. Partnership was superb, needed to maintain issues easy and straightforward. We took calculated dangers and that helped us. (On their rating) 150 was not an honest complete, however in matches like that, stress video games, it at all times appears like 180 and credit score goes to our bowlers. That they had that perception they might give us breakthroughs within the powerplay. They (Ismail and Sciver-Brunt) created that chance for us and acquired us the sport. Actually joyful the best way everybody bowled within the staff at the moment. We made issues very clear for everybody, had one-to-one conferences to clear their roles. We knew we had 4 skilled bowlers, and we knew whoever is within the recreation that day, we are going to give them the chance to do this (bowl these 4 overs) for us. They (Ishaque, Amanjot, Gupta) knew their roles and actually loved loads enjoying with them. It (this win) means loads. First season, we tried to do every thing proper. Once we met this season, we mentioned how issues didn’t go proper (final season). We needed to maintain issues easy and as a staff, we did that. Actually joyful we acquired assist from the assist employees, and actually joyful the best way we performed.
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