WPL 2025: All-round Delhi hammer Mumbai by 9 wickets to go prime of the desk
Delhi Capitals dished out an all-round effort to comfortably beat former champions Mumbai Indians by 9 wickets and soar to the highest of the desk within the Girls’s Premier League right here on Friday. Requested to bowl, DC first restricted inaugural version’s winner MI to 123 for 9, driving on Jess Jonassen’s advantageous effort with the ball.
Jonassen returned with spectacular figures of three for 25 from her 4 overs to interrupt the spine of DC with the essential wickets of in-form Nat Sciver-Brunt, skipper Harmanpreet Kaur and G Kamalini. Chasing the modest goal, skipper Meg Lanning (60 not out off 49) and Shafali Verma (43 off 28) shared 85 runs off simply 59 balls at hand DC an incredible begin.
Shafali was going nice weapons however was dismissed within the course of, attempting to hit right-arm pacer Amanjot Kaur over deep midwicket. She didn’t get the elevation, leading to a simple catch for Amelia Kerr close to the boundary.
However by then Shafali and Lanning had just about sealed the match in DC’s favour with their attacking batting.
Shafali 28-ball knock consisted 4 boundaries and two sixes.
Lanning, who was struggling for runs, lastly got here to the occasion with elegant unbeaten knock that was laced with 9 boundaries.
Jemimah Rodrigues remained unbeaten 15 off 10 balls as DC chased down the goal with 33 balls to spare.
Earlier opting to bat, DC had an honest begin earlier than shedding each their openers Yastika Bhatia (11) and Hayley Matthews (22) in fast succession.
In-form Sciver-Brunt continued her advantageous type and along with skipper Harmanpreet Kaur (18) shared 38 runs for the third wicket earlier than the latter was dismissed LBW by Jonassen within the eleventh over.
Sciver-Brunt, nonetheless, gave easy return catch to Jonassen to get out within the 14th over.
Sajeevan Sajana then didn’t assist her to workforce’s trigger, ballooning a easy catch to DC skipper Meg Lanning off the bowling of Minnu Mani at further cowl whereas going for an extravagant shot over the leg aspect.
It was raining wickets as G Kamalini too failed to come back to her aspect’s rescue after being cleaned up by Jonassen within the 18th over with MI struggling at 104 for 7 in 17.5 overs.
In the direction of the tip, it was battle for MI with no set batter in hand however they by some means managed to get previous the 120-run mark with out being bowled out.
The win enabled DC to leap to the highest of the WPL standings with eight factors from six matches, whereas MI slipped a spot to the second spot with six factors from 5 video games.
DC will tackle Royal Challengers Bengaluru of their subsequent match right here on Saturday, whereas MI might be up towards UP Warriorz on March 6 in Lucknow.
