After the victory of Delhi Capitals in WPL 2023, why did Shahrukh Khan remember the team, Captain Meg Lanning did this work

People News Chronicle March 21, 2023

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Delhi Capitals and Mumbai Indians were face to face in the Women’s Premier League. Two strong teams, which have already made it to the play-offs, were seen fighting to stay at the top of the points table in this match. In this match, under the leadership of Meg Lanning, Delhi Capitals defeated Mumbai by nine wickets.

Delhi Capitals had got a target of 110 runs to win. Opener Shefali Verma and skipper Meg Lanning’s blistering partnership helped the Delhi team chase down the target of 110 for 1 in just nine overs and win the match. Asil Capsy scored 38 runs in 17 balls hitting five sixes for Delhi Capitals.

Captain’s video viral on social media
Captain Meg Lanning’s video is becoming increasingly viral on social media, in which she is seen celebrating the victory with the entire team. This video has been shared on the official social media account of Delhi Capitals. In this video, the entire team of Delhi Capitals is seen and is celebrating the victory. Many players of the team have also retweeted this video.

In this video, the whole team has celebrated the victory remembering the King Khan of Bollywood, Shah Rukh Khan. All the players are seen recreating the famous pose of Shahrukh Khan. Everyone is seen doing the iconic pose of Shah Rukh Khan smiling with arms outstretched. Especially team captain Meg Lanning is also doing this pose with a smile.

At the same time, the video of the entire team doing this pose in Delhi Capitals jersey has gone viral on social media. Fans are very fond of this style of the Delhi captain and the entire team. Let us tell you that there was a match between Delhi Capitals and Mumbai Indians on Monday, March 20, in which Delhi won by nine wickets.

such a match
After a strong performance by the bowlers led by fast bowler Marijan Kapp (two wickets for 13 runs in four overs), Delhi Capitals won the Women’s Premier League (WPL) T20 match on Monday with the batting of Alice Capsey, Shefali Verma and captain Mag Lanning. Defeated Mumbai Indians by nine wickets here. In a clash between the top two teams on the points table, Delhi chased down the target for the loss of one wicket in just nine overs after restricting Mumbai to 109 for eight. With this win, the Delhi Capitals team reached the top of the points table while the Mumbai Indians team slipped to the second position.

Both the teams have 10-10 points in seven matches but after this win, Delhi’s net run rate got better than Mumbai. The top team in the league stage will directly qualify for the final while the second and third placed teams will play an eliminator match. Delhi chased down the small target aggressively. Shafali Verma and skipper Mag Lanning shared a 27-ball 56-run partnership with the Indian batsman contributing 33 off 15 balls. Shefali hit six fours and a six in her innings. Hayley Mathews broke this partnership by dismissing Shefali. After this, Capsy, who came to the crease, made an unbroken partnership of 54 runs in 27 balls with Captain Lanning. He scored 38 runs in an unbeaten 17-ball innings with the help of one four and five sixes.

Lanning remained unbeaten on 32 off 22 balls with the help of four fours and a six. Earlier, Man of the Match Kapp dismissed Yastika Bhatia (one) and Nate Sciver-Brunt (zero) in consecutive balls in the third over of the innings to put Mumbai on the backfoot. The team could not recover from these setbacks. He got good support from Shikha Pandey and Jess Jonassen. Both took two wickets each. Pooja Vastrakar top-scored for Mumbai with 26 runs while captain Harmanpreet Kaur and Issy Wong contributed 23 each. The 37-run partnership for the fifth wicket between Harmanpreet and Vastrakar was the highest for Mumbai. Yastika misread Kaap’s incoming ball and wicketkeeper Tania Bhatia took a simple catch. He then bowled Sciver-Brunt.

On the next ball, Harmanpreet Kaur stopped her from completing the hat-trick with a brilliant defense. Mumbai soon suffered another setback. In the next over, Hayley Mathews (five) was dismissed by Shikha Pandey. Jemimah Rodrigues took a brilliant one-handed catch to give the team a chance to celebrate. Mumbai were 10 for three in the fourth over and could only manage 19 runs in the power play. This is the team’s lowest score in the powerplay. In the seventh over, Arundhati Reddy showed Amelia Kerr (eight) the way to the pavilion. After this, Vastrakar, who came to the crease, hit a six and a four.

18 runs came from this 10th over of Poonam Yadav’s innings. Where Harmanpreet was playing carefully, Vastrakar hit two more fours. However, his innings did not last long. Radha took his catch on the ball of Jonassen. In the process of playing a big shot, Harmanpreet handed over a catch to Jemima off Shikha’s ball. The Mumbai team, however, managed to add 35 runs in the last five overs, with Issa Wong and Amanjot Kaur (19 runs) contributing.