The Mumbai Indians (MI Women) bowlers dismantled the entire top order of Delhi in their run chase to trouble Meg Lanning-led side in WPL 2025 on February 15.
Delhi Captial who had a solid start, suffered back-to-back dismissals in the run chase with MI bowlers Hayley Matthews, Shabnim Ismail, Amelia Kerr and Nat Sciver-Brunt picking a wicket each.
DC Women had a fiery start in the 165-run chase and went on to score 60 runs in the powerplay to provide a solid start for the side in the run chase.
#MI bowlers producing magic with the ball here in Vadodara 🪄
Some quick wickets and #DC are 83/4 after 10 overs.
An interesting stage of play coming your way 🙌
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After Mumbai was set to bat first Shikha Pandey dismissed Yastika Bhatia and Hayley Matthews for 11 and a duck. However, Nat Sciver-Brunt who came to bat at No.3 joined hands with Harmanpreet Kaur to make a 72-run partnership for the third wicket.
Captain Harmanpreet Kaur raced for rapid 42 runs in 22 deliveries before being dismissed by Sutherland. On the other hand, Nat Sciver-Brunt scored fifty off 37 deliveries. He came up with fourth WPL 2025 fifty during the match.
After the dismissal of Kaur, the MI Women batting lineup collapsed with back to back wickets in the match. On the other hand, Nat Sciver went on to haunt DC women Bowlers smashing 80* runs off 59 deliveries.
With single digit contributions from middle and lower order batters, Mumbai Scored 164 runs with five balls remaining.
Annabel Sutherland picked three wickets for 34 runs with an economy of 10.70. Meanwhile Shikha Pandey who picked two wickets has conceded only 14 runs in her four over quota with an average of 3.50.
