Delhi Capitals have grow to be the primary staff to defeat Mumbai Indians whereas batting first in the historical past of the Women’s Premier League. The 2023 runners-up handed the MI aspect a 29-run defeat to consolidate their place on the prime of the points table whereas pushing the defending champions down.
Led by a spectacular batting show from Meg Lanning and Jemimah Rodrigues, the Capitals racked up 192 runs in the primary innings. The skipper Lanning scored her third fifty of the match and second on the trot as she hit 53 from 38 balls. Lanning additionally turned the first-ever participant to attain 500 runs in WPL as she now has 543 runs in the match.Â
Rodrigues checked out her finest. She was toying with the Mumbai bowlers in her stroke-filled 69-run knock from 33 balls. She struck three sixes and eight fours in a terrific knock that powered the Capitals to 192/4.
Mumbai in reply had an off day right this moment, dropping for the primary time whereas chasing in the historical past of the match. Hayley Matthews made 29 from 17 balls however noticed the likes of Yastika Bhatia, Nat Sciver-Brunt and Harmanpreet Kaur combining simply 17 runs in 12 balls. MI by no means seemed in the chase after dropping these wickets. They had been 54/4 in 5.5 overs after which went down 68/5.Â
Amanjot Kaur tried performing some magic but it surely was to not be tonight in the primary recreation on the Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi. Even although the MI aspect didn’t get bowled out, they managed to attain simply 163 from their 20 overs. The No.7 batter Amanjot was the highest-scorer at 42 speaks volumes for a way poor MI had been on the day. Mumbai at the moment are pushed down to the third spot from the second place in the points table as their NRR went beneath RCB.
