WPL 2023: Delhi Capitals on top by ousting Mumbai Indians, exciting women’s IPL battle – delhi capitals beat mumbai indians by nine wickets in wpl 2023

Got all three playoff teams
With this win, the Delhi Capitals team reached the top of the points table while the Mumbai Indians team slipped to second place. Both teams have 10-10 points in seven matches, but after this victory, Delhi’s net run rate has become better than Mumbai. The top team in the league stage will directly qualify for the final while the second and third placed teams will play an eliminator match. Apart from Delhi and Mumbai, UP Warriors is the third team to reach the playoffs.

Simple target 11 overs ago
Delhi chased down the small target aggressively. Shafali Verma and skipper Mag Lanning shared a 27-ball 56-run partnership, with the Indian batsman contributing 33 off 15 balls. Shefali hit six fours and a six in her innings. Hayley Mathews broke this partnership by dismissing Shefali. Then coming to the crease, Capsy shared an unbroken partnership of 54 runs in 27 balls with captain Lanning. He scored 38 runs in an unbeaten 17-ball innings with the help of one four and five sixes. Lanning remained unbeaten on 32 off 22 balls with the help of four fours and a six.

Mumbai batters disappointed
Earlier, Man of the Match Kapp dismissed Yastika Bhatia (one) and Nate Sciver-Brunt (zero) in consecutive balls in the third over of the innings to put Mumbai on the back foot. The team could not recover from these setbacks. He got good support from Shikha Pandey and Jess Jonassen. Both took two wickets each. Pooja Vastrakar top-scored for Mumbai with 26 runs while captain Harmanpreet Kaur and Issy Wong contributed 23 each. The 37-run partnership for the fifth wicket between Harmanpreet and Vastrakar was the highest for Mumbai.