BENGALURU, India, CMC – West Indies Girls’s captain Hayley Matthews had a forgettable begin to the Girls’s Premier League Twenty20 match on Friday in India. Nonetheless, Mumbai Indians defied the chances to clinch an exhilarating four-wicket win towards Delhi Capitals off the final ball.
The 25-year-old Barbadian all-rounder conceded 21 and didn’t take a wicket in two overs together with her off-spin, and Capitals, led by 75 from England worldwide Alice Capsey, reached 171 for 5 after they have been put in to bat within the first match of this yr’s match on the Chinnaswamy Stadium.
Matthews, the 2023 girls’s World T20 Participant-of-the-12 months, then suffered the indignity of being dismissed for a second ball. Nonetheless, half-centuries from the India pair of Yastika Bhatia and her captain Harmanpreet Kaur saved the day for MI, and so they accomplished a profitable run chase.
Bhatia hit eight fours and two sixes within the prime rating of 57 from 45 balls, and Kaur, the India Girls’s nationwide captain, slammed seven fours and one sixes in 55 off 34 balls.
South Africa all-rounder Marizanne Kapp bought Matthews caught behind off the second ball of the chase, however MI completed the Energy Play on 50 for one due to Bhatia and England worldwide Nat Sciver-Brunt.
The wicket of Sciver-Brunt – bowled by Arundhati Reddy – off the primary ball of the subsequent over introduced Kaur to the crease, and he or she anchored important stands of 56 for the third wicket with Bhatia and 44 for the fourth wicket with Amelia Kerr that appeared to place MI heading in the right direction for victory.
The chase bumped into hassle within the closing phases when Kerr fell within the 18th over with 22 required, and Pooja Vastrakar and Kaur have been dismissed off the primary and fifth balls of the ultimate over earlier than Sajeevan Sanjana hit Capsey for a six off the final ball of the match to seal the win.
Earlier, the Capitals limped to 26 for one on the shut of the Energy Play. Nonetheless, Capsey was on the coronary heart of half-century stands with former Australia captain Meg Lanning and India worldwide Jemimah Rodrigues that bought them heading in the right direction.
Capsey struck eight fours and three sixes within the prime rating of 75 off 53 balls, Rodrigues supported with 42, and Lanning made 31.
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