WPL-3: Delhi concluded last year thanks to Nikki Prasad’s match-winning innings; Mumbai avoided defeat in first match.

Jaipur: The team of Delhi Capitals started with a loud win in the third edition of the Women’s Premier League. In WPL-2 last year, the Delhi team had to face defeat to Mumbai Indians in their first match. Mumbai defeated Delhi by 4 wickets in the opening match of the second edition. In the third edition, Delhi defeated Mumbai by 2 wickets and completed the revenge of the defeat last year. In the second match of WPL-3 played at Kotambi Stadium in Vadodara, Gujarat on Saturday, the winner of the first edition was heavy on Mumbai and won a stunning 2 wickets in the final ball. Nikki Prasad of Delhi was adjudged ‘Player of the Match’ for her match winning innings.

The important role in Delhi’s victory was that of Karnataka’s all -rounder female cricketer Nikki Prasad, who played a unique innings of 35 runs with the help of 4 fours off 33 balls and finally reached the winning door.

Shefali played an explosive innings of 43 runs

Explosive batsman Shefali Verma also played an important role in Delhi’s victory. Verma played a fiery innings in the opening, scoring 43 runs from just 18 balls with the help of 7 fours and 2 sixes. However, she was given a good start to Delhi to chasing the target of 165 runs, but Captain Mag Lanning (15), who was supporting her at the other end, returned to the pavilion soon. Lanning was made clean bowled by Mumbai bowler Shabnam Ismail.

Rodrigues returned for 2 runs, Bryce scored 21 runs

Jemima Rodriguez, the best batsman of Team India, returned to the pavilion for just 2 runs in the first match of the third edition of Team India’s best batsman in the middle order. Jemima was caught by Amelia Carr at the hands of Harmanpreet Kaur. The wicket of Sutherland (13), Ellis Capsi (16) also fell soon and the team started getting caught in crisis, but then, Nikki Prasad (35) runs and Sarah Bryce (21) Run not only took out the team from the crisis. , Also won. Pandey was run out after scoring 2 runs. Radha Yadav returned unbeaten by winning 9 runs off 4 balls and Arundhati Reddy won 2 runs. From Mumbai, Mathews and Carr got 2-2 wickets while Ismail, Brant and Sajna got one wicket each.

Sewer-brorant played an unbeaten innings of 80 runs

Earlier, after losing the toss, Harmanpreet Kaur’s team came out to bat first and suffered a major setback in the first over as West Indies cricketer Haley Mathews (0). Mathews was caught by Shikha Pandey by catching out at the hands of Lanning. Wicketkeeper batsman Yastika Bhatia also could not do much and after scoring 15 runs, Shikha became clean bold off the ball of Pandey. After this, the net sewage-brain, who came to Banti, beat up Mumbai bowlers and returned unbeaten on 80 runs with the help of 13 fours off 59 balls. Captain Harmanpreet Kaur also performed the brant well and in the first match, he hit 42 runs off 22 balls with the help of four fours and three sixes. Amelia Carr was run out for 9 runs. Sajeevan Sajna (1), Amanjyot Kaur (7), Sanskriti Gupta (7), Kalita (1), Ismail (0) and Sika ISAC were dismissed for zero. Three players were run out in Mumbai’s team. For Delhi, Annabel Sutherland took three wickets at 34 while Pandey got two wickets. Capsi and Money got 1-1 wickets.

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