Mumbai Indians Women beat Delhi Capitals Women by eight runs in the WPL 2025 final on Saturday.
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The blockbuster women’s T20 cricket fest came to an end today with Mumbai Indians Women (MUM-W) taking on Delhi Capitals Women (DC-W) in the grand Women’s Premier League (WPL 2025) final. Notably, the thrilling encounter was held at the Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai.
Visiting captain Meg Lanning won the toss and invited the hosts to bat first. Despite not getting off to a flyer, Mumbai recovered well in the last stages of the match and gave Delhi a target of 150 runs. MUM-W captain Harmanpreet Kaur bailed her team out of early trouble with a gritty 66-run knock and stitched a crucial 89-run partnership with Natalie Sciver-Brunt for the third wicket. Natalie played a vital 30-run cameo to help her captain. As a result, Mumbai Indians Women finished with 149/7 on the board.
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Talking Points
1. Did Lanning fail to bat long enough to keep her team in hunt?
In reply to the run chase, skipper Meg Lanning started strong as she was looking to set the tempo for the rest of the Delhi Capitals Women’s batting unit. However, before she could convert her start into a big knock, all-rounder Natalie Sciver-Brunt dismissed her in the second over of the run chase. In the following over, pacer Shabnim Ismail trapped opener Shafali Varma in front, to boost Mumbai’s chances further.
2. Mumbai spinners kept adding pressure to keep things in control
The top four batters of DC-W were back in the hut by the midway of their innings as spinner Saika Ishaque and Amelia Kerr further squeezed their batters by not allowing them to score freely. Though the middle order batter Jemimah Rodrigues tried holding the fort from one end by counter-attacking Kerr, she eventually gave her wicket away in a bid to up the scoring run rate. At that stage, DC-W were staring down the barrel with the score reading 67/5.
3. Marizanne Kapp’s and Niki Prasad’s resistance in vain
Star all-rounder Marizanne Kapp, after bowling decently, tried to take the game deep and kept fighting before she perished after scoring 35 runs. Ismail’s disciplined bowling led Kapp to take her chances in the 18th which was bowled by Sciver-Brunt. Youngster Niki Prasad’s resistance too went in vain as Delhi Capitals lost their third final of the Women’s Premier League by a close margin of eight runs to lift the WPL title for a record second time.
Meanwhile, here’s what the captains and the Player of the Match (POTM) said about how the final panned out on Saturday.
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