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In the second season of the Women’s Premier League (WPL), defending champions Mumbai Indians registered a big win by 7 wickets in the match against Royal Challengers Bangalore Women’s team, showing excellent performance with both ball and bat. In this match, Mumbai Indians once again played without their captain Harmanpreet Kaur. Bowling first, Mumbai Indians restricted RCB Women’s team to a score of just 131. After this they chased the target in just 15.1 overs at the loss of 3 wickets. With this victory, Mumbai team has once again reached the first position in the points table.
Amelia Kerr showed amazing performance with the bat, Mumbai got an easy win
After restricting the RCB Women’s team to the score of 131, the pair of Yastika Bhatia and Hailey Mathews gave a great start to the Mumbai Indians Women’s team while chasing the target and made a partnership of 45 runs for the first wicket. However, by the score of 69, Mumbai team had lost both its players. From here, Amelia Kerr started batting aggressively while handling the innings from one end, in which she scored an unbeaten inning of 40 runs in just 24 balls which included 7 fours. On the strength of this innings of Amelia, Mumbai Indians team won the match in just 15.1 overs and registered its third win of this season. In bowling for RCB, Sophie Devine, Shreyanka Patil and Georgia Wareham took 1-1 wicket.
If we talk about the innings of RCB women’s team in this match, except Ellyse Perry, no other player was able to contribute more with the bat. Captain Smriti Mandhana and Sophie Devine could score only 9 runs each. Whereas Perry played an important role in helping the team reach a fighting score in this match by playing an inning of 44 runs. In this match for Mumbai Indians, Natalie Siver Brunt and Pooja Vastrakar took 2-2 wickets with the ball, while Izzy Wong and Saika Ishaq also managed to take 1-1 wicket.
Mumbai reached the top of the points table with the win
With the victory of Mumbai Indians in this match, they have now reached the first place in the points table with 6 points after 3 wins in 4 matches, while their net run rate has also become 0.402. After the defeat in this match, RCB Women’s team has reached the fourth position with 4 points and their net run rate is also – 0.015. Delhi Capitals and UP Warriors are currently placed second and third in the points table, while Gujarat Giants are at the last position after losing all 3 matches.
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