Mumbai Indians became the first champion of WPL 2023, breaking the dream of Delhi Capitals and captured the title
Mumbai Indians have created history by winning the final match of the first edition of Women’s Premier League 2023. Mumbai Indians beat Delhi Capitals by 7 wickets. Captain Harmanpreet Kaur once again played the captaincy innings to win Mumbai Indians in this match and won the first title of Women’s Premier League for Mumbai. Delhi Capitals decided to bat first after winning the toss. Delhi had given a target of 132 runs to Mumbai Indians, which the team easily chased.
Even in the final match, Harmanpreet Kaur and Nat Sciver-Brunt made Mumbai Indians the winner by playing blistering innings. Nat Sciver Brunt scored 54 runs in 52 balls in the match and defeated Delhi by seven wickets.
Delhi’s innings was like this
Captain Meg Lanning and Shefali Verma started the innings for Delhi Capitals in the final match of the first edition of the Women’s Premier League. Nat Siever Brunt bowled the first over for Mumbai Indians. The nets could not do anything amazing in the first over. After this, Issy Wong, who took the league’s first and only hat-trick, gave the first blow to Delhi in the form of Shefali in the second over. Shefali scored 11 runs with the help of a four.
After this, in the second over, Delhi again had to fall victim to Issy Wong and Alice Kepsey returned to the pavilion without opening the account. After this, Jemima Rodrigues came to the crease to support captain Meg Lanning. A big inning was expected from Jemima in the match but she too could not perform well. Issy Wong also got the third wicket for Mumbai. He made Jemima walk the pavilion on the score of just nine runs. In this way, Delhi Capitals quickly lost their three important wickets in the beginning. Issy Wong got all the three wickets.
Delhi’s innings was handled by captain Meg Lanning and Marijan Cap. Marijan Capp and Meg tried to handle the innings a bit but this effort was broken by Amelia Kerr. Amelia dismissed Marijan Kapp for 18 runs. Delhi Capitals got the fourth blow on the score of 73. After this the wicket of captain Meg Lanning fell. She returned to the pavilion after scoring 35 runs. On the score of 74, half the team of Delhi Capitals had returned to the pavilion. The Mumbai team put a lot of pressure on the Delhi team on the basis of bowling. The bowlers of the team, showing a brilliant game, dropped seven wickets of Delhi on the score of 77.
The Mumbai team did not stop putting pressure on Delhi just like that. In the final match, Delhi got its ninth blow on the score of 79. Tanya Bhatia gave her wicket to Hayley Mathews. The Mumbai team gave only five runs in the last 4 overs and took three important wickets. Till this point, it seemed that the match was completely out of Delhi’s hands. But Radha Yadav and Shikha Pandey played brilliant innings for the 10th wicket. Both shared a 52-run partnership in 24 balls for the 10th wicket, which was a record innings in the history of women’s cricket. Due to the strong partnership of both, the team scored a fighting score of 131.
