Mumbai Indians Women Vs Delhi Capitals Women 1st Match 23 February 2024

1st T20 • M.Chinnaswamy Stadium • Bengaluru

Delhi Capitals Women

171/5 (20)

Mumbai Indians Women

173/6 (20)

MUM-W won by 4 wickets

Info

Fantasy

Live

Scorecard

Stats

Player of the Match Harmanpreet Kaur

55(34)

DEL-W

MUM-W

Info

Delhi Capitals Women

171/5 (20)

Batters

Meg Lanning

124.00

c Sajana b Sciver

Shafali Verma

12.50

b Ismail

Alice Capsey

141.51

lbw b Kerr

Jemimah Rodrigues

175.00

c Bhatia b Sciver

Marizanne Kapp

177.78

st Bhatia b Kerr

Annabel Sutherland

50.00

Not out

Extras

(B: 0, LB: 2, NB: 1, W: 2)

TOTAL

(20 Ov, RR: 8.55)

171/5

Did not Bat

Arundhati Reddy, Minnu Mani, Taniya Bhatia, Radha Yadav, Shikha Pandey

Bowlers

EXT

Shabnim Ismail

6.00

Saika Ishaque

5.67

Natalie Sciver

8.25

Amelia Kerr

10.75

SB Keerthana

13.00

Hayley Matthews

10.50

Pooja Vastrakar

9.00

Fall Of Wickets

SCORE

OVER

Shafali Verma

b Ismail

1-3

2.1

Meg Lanning

c Sajana b Sciver

2-67

10.4

Alice Capsey

lbw b Kerr

3-141

17.1

Jemimah Rodrigues

c Bhatia b Sciver

4-155

18.3

Marizanne Kapp

st Bhatia b Kerr

5-171

19.6

Mumbai Indians Women

173/6 (20)

Batters

Hayley Matthews

0.00

c Bhatia b Kapp

Yastika Bhatia

126.67

c Kapp b Reddy

Natalie Sciver

111.76

b Reddy

Harmanpreet Kaur

161.76

c Sutherland b Capsey

Amelia Kerr

133.33

b Pandey

Pooja Vastrakar

33.33

c Reddy b Capsey

Amanjot Kaur

150.00

Not out

Sajeevan Sajana

600.00

Not out

Extras

(B: 0, LB: 3, NB: 2, W: 3)

TOTAL

(20 Ov, RR: 8.65)

173/6

Did not Bat

Shabnim Ismail, SB Keerthana, Saika Ishaque

Bowlers

EXT

Marizanne Kapp

8.00

Shikha Pandey

8.00

Annabel Sutherland

9.50

Arundhati Reddy

6.75

Alice Capsey

11.50

Radha Yadav

9.00

Fall Of Wickets

SCORE

OVER

Hayley Matthews

c Bhatia b Kapp

1-0

0.2

Natalie Sciver

b Reddy

2-50

6.1

Yastika Bhatia

c Kapp b Reddy

3-106

13.2

Amelia Kerr

b Pandey

4-150

17.6

Pooja Vastrakar

c Reddy b Capsey

5-160

19.1

Harmanpreet Kaur

c Sutherland b Capsey

6-167

19.5

Match Info

Date & Time

23 Feb, 08:00 PM IST

Venue

M.Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru

Match

1st T20,

Women's Premier League

Umpires

Abhijit Bengeri (India), Vrinda Rathi (India), Pashchim Pathak (India, TV)

Referee

GS Lakshmi (India)

Toss

Mumbai Indians Women elected to bowl

2 1lb 1 4 1 4

Over 17

Runs: 13

2 1 1 0 4 W

Over 18

Runs: 8

0 1 0 1 2 6

Over 19

Runs: 10

W 2 1 4 W 6

Over 20

Runs: 13

All Overs

Player of the Match Harmanpreet Kaur

55(34)

Commentary

We now draw curtains on our coverage of the inaugural 2024 Women's Premier League match. The premise has been set for what promises to be an immensely successful tournament - a last-ball thriller between the two finalists from last year! We'll be back tomorrow with more of the same as the Royal Challengers Bangalore take on the UP Warriorz on home soil. Join us right here on Sportskeeda for our coverage of the same, and of course, a whole lot more! This is Rajarshi Das, signing off on behalf of Pradeep Somasekhar. Good night!

Just the kind of game that was needed to spark fresh excitement and ensure all the spotlight on the Women's Premier League! We had the best of the best on the park today - Lanning, Capsey, Jemimah, Yastika, Harmanpreet - all renowned figures in the sport had their say, but ultimately, a 29-year-old debutant from Wayanad had the final say! Sajeevan Sajana will certainly be a trending name in the databases of most sports' sides, and she sure has earned it!

Harmanpreet Kaur, Mumbai Indians captain and the Player Of The Match: Happy where we ended, we started from that momentum only. Happy with how we played, we played very positively. I would like to give credit to one of my batting coaches - Himanshu bhaiya. When I came back after the Australia series, I was not feeling well, but he made me practice hard and help me gain my confidence back. I didn't play the domestic tournament, I wanted to take a break and feel okay, mentally as well, sometimes you feel mentally fatigued having played too much cricket. That break helped me really well. Wicket looked really friendly while batting, I thought if we could take the game deep, we can win. Sajana gave us a solid start to the tournament, she's been smacking sixes throughout the practice sessions, she should what she has. We just wanted to look at the boundary options in the last over, good thing was that the spinner came. We were looking to finish the game in the first three balls itself, we had depth in the batting - because of Sajana I am standing here! Because of the conditions we wanted to chase, batting first or second doesn't matter, the conditions do.

Amelia Kerr: To go out there and hit the six of the first ball was unbelievable, first game for Mumbai, pretty awesome feeling for her and just happy to be on the right side of the game. I think, it was a nice wicket, thought it would get slower as the game progressed, with fast outfield and short boundary, we wanted to give ourselves the chase by taking it deep with wickets in hand. I don't think so, it's the same every time you play, sometimes it comes and sometimes it doesn't, spinners are key and last year as well. Before you play, in the meetings and stuff, we plan to different players, like here with short boundaries and you want to be prepared, going out there and executing it. We have some great cricketing brain in the team, that always helps and just back yourself when you go out there.

Meg Lanning (Delhi Capitals captain): It was reasonably good, sliding on, Mumbai Indians bowled really well early, hit a tough lengths and kept it tight, generally it's a good batting track but they bowled well up front which was the difference in the end. We thought it was above par, would've loved few more but still thought we could get the job done, we fought towards the end, but not to be today. I thought for most part, we executed pretty well, Bhatia as the left-hander complicated things and we can still get better. Reasonable effort, but we can better as the tournament progresses. Nearly snuck home there in the end, Capsey bowling the last over, I thought she did a great job, when we got Kaur out, I thought it we had the game in our hands, but for her to come out and hit the six first ball was brilliant. Big side to the right-hander, spinning the ball in and trying to get them to hit the bigger part of the ground, but couldn't quite get it done, full credit to Mumbai, fighting right till the end and being clinical.

Match summary:

Mumbai Indians win by 4 wickets off the last ball

Harmanpreet Kaur 55(34) | Natalie Sciver-Brunt 2/33 (4)
Alice Capsey 75(53) | Alice Capsey 2/23 (4)

Cricket can be such a funny game. For 39 overs and five deliveries, it seemed like Alice Capsey was the player of the day - having top-scored for the Capitals earlier today, she just claimed the wicket of Harmanpreet just as the Indian skipper was set on getting the job done for her franchise side. Capsey looked to bowl a similar delivery the last ball - little did she know what was about to happen!

Nerves of steel from Sajeevan Sajana - widely regarded as one of the best female cricketers to come out of Kerala, Sajana was down the wicket, close to the pitch of the ball well in time, had a measured swing at it with her blade, didn't overhit it, her head didn't fall back, and Sajana went on to clear possibly the largest part of the boundary just when her team needed it the most.

And just like that, one of the integral purposes of the existence of the Women's Premier League flashed right in front of us - unearthing relatively unknown Indian players and providing them with moments like these. Sajeevan Sajana might just make a case for herself in terms of batting up the order - she sure showed the nerves required for the same! What a start we just had to the 2024 Women's Premier League!

Having lost Matthews two balls into the chase, the Mumbai Indians desperately needed someone from their top-order to grab hold of that role of accelerator and provide them with a solid start. Yastika Bhatia emerged as an unlikely candidate for the same - Natalie Sciver-Brunt happily played second fiddle as Yastika, with her immaculate timing, kept finding and clearing the ropes at will, and with 50 on the board after the end of the powerplay, the Mumbai Indians were firmly in control of proceedings.

A pinpoint yorker from Arundhati Reddy, and a failed attempt at a Natmeg saw the Capitals strike back right after the powerplay. There was the odd boundary almost every over after that as Yastika and Harmanpreet Kaur kept the Mumbai Indians in the hunt. Yastika was beginning to run out of momentum, though, she middled a pull but ended up holing out, and the game took a fresh turn.

The Mumbai Indians still had major reasons for optimism as Harmanpreet took over. She and Amelia Kerr kept MI in the hunt before Kerr departed in the last ball of the 18th. It was mostly down to the MI skipper after that - Harmanpreet brought the equation down to 12 off the last over, and once she found the boundary off the third delivery off Capsey, it seemed like MI's game to lose. What followed next was for everyone to watch!

Wow! Wowwwwww! A moment worth a thousand goosebumps! Capsey is on her knees, hiding her face behind her cap! The spotlight has just turned from her to a relatively new face - one that will certainly be a whole lot popular in the days to come! Sajeevan Sajana is the name - she's just smashed 6 off the last ball of a WPL match to win Mumbai Indians the game!!!

overs

173 /6 score

runs

Sajeevan Sajana *

6 (1)

Amanjot Kaur

3 (2)

Alice Capsey

2 /23

19.6 Alice Capsey to Sajeevan Sajana, SIX! SAJEEVAN SAJANA, THE HERO OF MUMBAI INDIANS! Lanning can't believe it, so is Capsey, but what a shot that from Sajana to finish the game in style. Steps down the track for the length delivery, Sajana pummels it over wide long-on for seal the game. What a thriller we've just witnessed and that is just the first game of WPL! Phew!

Sajeevan Sajana, RHB, comes to the crease

Alice Capsey is absolutely pumped! What a tremendous day this has been for her! Runs, big, big wickets having been entrusted with the last over - Capsey might just have won her side the game! Yet again, it's a case of so close, yet so far for Harmanpreet Kaur!

19.5 Alice Capsey to Harmanpreet Kaur, OUT! MILES INTO THE AIR AND TAKEN! Sutherland takes a sitter and Delhi back on top now. Floated the length delivery outside the off-stump, Kaur looking to finish the game right here but that went straight up in the air. Sutherland settles under it at long-on and pouches it safely.

Harmanpreet Kaur c Annabel Sutherland b Alice Capsey 55 (34b, 7x4, 1x6)

Not one to be fazed by such small mind games, is she? 5 needed off 2....

19.4 Alice Capsey to Harmanpreet Kaur, FOUR! SHOT! Terrific placement from Kaur. Length delivery outside the off-stump, Kaur sits on one knee and lofted it over covers, runs away for a boundary. Need 5 off 2 now!

Ohhhhhh, mind games! Capsey keeps hold of the ball and completes her action!

19.3 Alice Capsey to Amanjot Kaur, goes right across the off-stump for a full delivery, Amanjot sweeps it behind square on the on-side for just one. Captain is back on strike!

Ohhhh, they didn't push for the third there! There was a third on offer!

19.2 Alice Capsey to Amanjot Kaur, length delivery outside the off-stump, Amanjot reaches and lofted it over backward point. Shafali gives the chase, flicks it back in time as they come back for a couple.

Amanjot Kaur, RHB, comes to the crease

19.1 Alice Capsey to Pooja Vastrakar, OUT! MILES UP INTO THE NIGHT SKY AND TAKEN! This is going right down to the wire. Delhi hit back with a crucial blow again. Vastrakar down the track for a big hit, but miscued it and Reddy was cool as ice at extra-cover, takes a sitter.

Pooja Vastrakar c Arundhati Reddy b Alice Capsey 1 (3b, 0x4, 0x6)

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