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With an opener that noticed over 400 runs scored in a day and a second sport that had everybody on the sting of their seats until the final ball, the Girls’s Premier League (WPL) has gotten off to a dramatic begin.
Delhi Capitals snuck away with a two-wicket win over Mumbai Indians on the Kotambi Worldwide Stadium right here on Saturday to get its first factors of the WPL 2025 marketing campaign. Meg Lanning’s adept bowling rotations set the tone for a win early on, with the Capitals proscribing Mumbai to 164.
Lanning opted to subject, seeking to work on a goal set by a deep batting lineup within the Mumbai dugout. She tried out 4 bowlers within the first six overs. It didn’t assist that Alice Capsey was put away for 19 runs in her first over.
Shikha Pandey set to work and struck twice in three overs to peg momentum again within the Capitals’ favour, taking out each openers together with her helpful inswing.
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Hayley Matthews acquired a thick edge which discovered Lanning at slip whereas Yastika Bhatia misplaced her leg stump to 1 coming in from the Indian seamer.
Mumbai skipper Harmanpreet Kaur and Nat Sciver-Brunt then stitched a vital partnership to regular their aspect’s inning. Harman diminished Delhi’s fielders to mere spectators with a flurry of boundaries up entrance. She took Annabel Sutherland to the cleaners, hammering three fours and a six off the Australian allrounder’s over earlier than holing out to Niki Prasad at deep third.
Niki Prasad
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Niki Prasad
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Sciver-Brunt (80 n.o off 59 balls) dropped anchor, mentioning a effective half century — her fourth within the WPL. Her clean shot choice and placement stood out in an in any other case forgettable sport for Mumbai’s batters.
Chasing 165 for a win, Lanning and Shafali Verma picked up from the place they left final season, mentioning a 50-run stand very quickly. Shafali performed the aggressor, slamming 22 runs within the second over. She fell seven runs in need of a half century with a miscued shot off Matthews discovering Amanjot Kaur. Lanning misplaced her stumps to Shabnim Ismail’s tempo.
A gut-twisting end to the chase was to comply with.
Mumbai effected a collapse, eradicating Jemimah Rodrigues and Sutherland for low scores. Capsey partnerd Niki because the pair tried to rebuild the Delhi innings however Amelia Kerr despatched again the English allrounder.
Niki, enjoying her maiden sport within the league, discovered a accomplice in Sarah Bryce who managed a 10-ball 21. Niki saved calm with wickets falling on the different finish and a contentious run out evaluation going her manner within the dying overs of the chase. Vadodara’s personal Radha Yadav additionally gave her dwelling crowd causes to cheer with an enormous six within the nineteenth over.
Niki almost noticed the job by however holed out to Kerr within the deep off Sajana within the ultimate over with two runs wanted for a win.
Arundhati Reddy ran for her life on the final ball off the sport to take the Capitals dwelling.
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