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Delhi Capitals triumphed in a conflict of the highest two within the Girls’s Premier League after it breezed previous Mumbai Indians with a nine-wicket win on the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium right here on Friday.
Skipper Meg Lanning and Shafali Verma confirmed the 30,000-strong crowd why they’re the very best opening partnership within the league’s historical past. Chasing a paltry 124, the duo added 85 runs for the primary wicket earlier than Shafali (43 off 28 balls) holed out to Amelia Kerr at deep mid-wicket off Amanjot Kaur’s bowling within the tenth over. Given her entertaining six-hitting knock, her dismissal drewa disenchanted shake of the top from Sourav Ganguly – DC’s Director of Cricket – within the dugout.
HIGHLIGHTS: DC VS MI AS IT HAPPENED
Lanning (60 not out off 49 balls) notched up her second half-century of the season to see the chase by in 14.3 overs with Jemimah Rodrigues (15 off 10 balls) supporting her from the opposite finish.
Mumbai Indians got here into this sport with a chilly file batting first, successful solely 4 of the 9 matches the place it has set a goal. This sport solely added to that dismal file.
Whereas tempo gave Capitals early breakthroughs, it was the spinners who had a area day on a slower-than-usual Bengaluru wicket.
Sutherland’s athleticism on the sector helped Delhi Capitals put stress on Mumbai Indians
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Okay Murali Kumar
Sutherland’s athleticism on the sector helped Delhi Capitals put stress on Mumbai Indians
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Okay Murali Kumar
Openers Yastika Bhatia (11 off 10 balls) and Hayley Matthews (22 off 25 balls) had been eliminated on both aspect of the PowerPlay by Shikha Pandey and Annabel Sutherland respectively.
Skipper Harmanpreet Kaur (22 off 16 balls) and Nat Sciver-Brunt (18 off 22 balls) appeared harmful after including 38 runs for the third wicket between the seventh and eleventh overs, however each had been eliminated by Jess Jonassen (3/25).
Off-spinner Minnu Mani (3/17 in three overs) struck twice within the seventeenth over to take away statemate Sajeevan Sajana (5 off eight balls) and ship Kerr (17 off 18 balls) again to the hut, courtesy a surprising effort by Annabel Sutherland, who travelled 28 metres from lengthy on to mid-wicket earlier than diving to take the catch.
Amanjot’s 10-ball 17, which included a few modern boundaries, supplied for some aid within the demise, but it surely was too little too late. MI’s third-lowest whole within the WPL was all the time going to be robust to defend.
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