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Delhi Capitals will hope third time to be fortunate when it faces Mumbai Indians within the Ladies’s Premier League 2025 ultimate on Saturday on the Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai.
The Meg Lanning-led facet enters its third consecutive WPL ultimate after dropping on the primary two ocassions.
This isn’t the primary time either side are assembly within the summit conflict. They confronted one another within the WPL 2023 ultimate after DC topped the standings and MI beat UP Warriorz within the Eliminator to take the opposite spot.
Right here’s what occurred the final time Delhi Capitals and Mumbai Indians performed one another in a Ladies’s Premier League ultimate:
Mumbai Indians had crushed Delhi Capitals within the WPL 2023 ultimate by seven wickets to elevate the inaugural Ladies’s Premier League title on March 26, 2023 on the Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai.
Chasing a paltry 132, Nat Sciver-Brunt (60 not out off 55 balls) and Harmanpreet Kaur (37 off 39 balls) led MI to victory, regardless of the match going into the final over.
Whereas spinners Jess Jonassen and Radha Yadav began DC’s defence sturdy by eradicating openers Hayley Matthews and Yastika Bhatia for reasonable within the PowerPlay, Sciver-Brunt and Harmanpreet stitched a 72-run stand for the third-wicket which steadied the ship and helped it sail over the end line with ease.
Amelia Kerr’s eight-ball 14, which included two fours, additionally helped earlier than Sciver-Brunt performed a paddle scoop over her stumps for a 4 to seal the win.
Earlier, DC received the toss and selected to bat which turned out to be a horror present for Lanning and Co. Shafali Verma was the primary to depart after which the DC’s skipper started to ran out of regular companions on the different finish. Issy Wong took three wickets within the PowerPlay.
MI’s Amelia Kerr celebrates after taking a wicket in the course of the Last WPL Match between Mumbai Indians and Delhi Capitals held at Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai.
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EMMANUAL YOGINI
MI’s Amelia Kerr celebrates after taking a wicket in the course of the Last WPL Match between Mumbai Indians and Delhi Capitals held at Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai.
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EMMANUAL YOGINI
The Australian stayed on the crease until the twelfth over, scoring a 29-ball 35, however the facet’s center order collapse had already begun. The facet misplaced six wickets between the eleventh and sixteenth overs and scored simply six runs.
DC was struggling at 79/9 after Kerr took two wickets and Matthews completed with three scalps by conceding simply 5 runs in 4 overs.
Nonetheless, a preventing 52-run stand for the tenth wicket between Shikha Pandey (27 not out off 17 balls) and Radha (27 not out off 12 balls) noticed DC publish 131 runs on the board, which was by no means going to be sufficient.
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