Mumbai Indians Women vs Delhi Capitals Women WPL 2023 Match Report and Highlights: With this victory, Delhi Capitals have also secured the first position in the points table leaving Mumbai Indians behind.
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Mumbai: Mumbai Indians, who started with a bang in the Women’s Premier League (WPL 2023) with five consecutive matches, have suddenly started faltering. After qualifying in the playoffs, the team captained by Harmanpreet Kaur has suffered its second consecutive defeat in the tournament. This time the task of defeating Mumbai is its number one rival delhi capitals has. Delhi Capitals, who have been fighting in the first place race since the beginning, avenged the previous defeat from Mumbai and defeated them by 9 wickets. Delhi thrashed Mumbai with the first ball and then achieved the target of 110 runs in just 9 overs and also captured the first place.
An exciting match was expected in this match played between these two top teams of the league at DY Patil Stadium, but a one-sided match was seen for the second time in the season. Only this time the result was different. It can also be said that the way the previous Mumbai had given a crushing defeat to Delhi earlier, Delhi gave its answer in exactly the same way. Rather, in an even more explosive manner. In the first match between the two, Delhi was bundled out for just 105 runs and Mumbai won by 8 wickets in 15 overs.
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After stopping Mumbai for just 109 runs, Delhi made the already easy target even easier on the basis of explosive batting. He also needed such a performance, from which Delhi could get the first position and he also achieved it. Delhi’s explosive opening pair, captain Meg Lanning and Shefali Verma started with a bang. Especially Shefali created a storm. The young Indian opener hit 33 runs (6 fours, 1 six) in just 15 balls.
The score was 53 when Shefali’s wicket fell in the fifth over. Then came the 18-year-old English batsman Alice Capsy who did the same thing. This batsman also hit 3 sixes in a single over and hit an unbeaten 38 runs (1 four, 5 sixes) in 17 balls to give the team victory in 9 overs. Captain Lanning also remained unbeaten after scoring 32 runs (22 balls, 4 fours, 1 six).