WPL 2025: Mumbai Indians made a place in the final for the second time, will compete with Delhi Capitals on 15 for title

Last updated:March 13, 2025, 23:31 IST

Mumbai Indians, captained by Harmanpreet Kaur, defeated Gujarat Joints by 47 runs in Eliminator and made it to the finals. Mumbai will face Delhi Capitals on Sunday, 15 March. Final Mumbai’s Brab …Read more

Mumbai defeated Gujarat and made it to the finals of the Women’s Premier League.

New Delhi. Mumbai Indians made it to the final of the Women’s Premier League (WPL) for the second consecutive time. Harmanpreet Kaur captained Mumbai defeated Gujarat Joints by 47 runs in Eliminator. In the title match, Mumbai Indians will compete with Delhi Capitals on Saturday 15 March at Brabourne Stadium. The match will be played at 7:30 pm. In Mumbai’s win, the aggressive half-century innings of Nate Cyre-Bunt (77) and Haley Mathews (77) played a key role. There was a partnership of 133 runs in 71 balls for the second wicket between two. Mathews and Cyver-Brant took a wonder of three and one wicket respectively after the bat.

After scoring a big score of 213 for four wickets, Mumbai stopped Gujarat for 166 runs in 19.4 overs and registered a seventh win in seven matches against this team. For Gujarat, Daniel Gibson contributed 34, Fobe Lichfield 31 and Bharti Phoolmali contributed 30 runs. Apart from Mathews and Cyver Brant for Mumbai, Amelia Kerr also took two wickets. Shabnam Ismail got a success. After batting vigilantly in the powerplay, Cyver-Bunt and Mathews hit fours and sixes in every field of the field. Cyver-Bunt scored 77 runs in 41 balls. Mathews also contributed 77 runs in 50 balls.

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Captain Harmanpreet Kaur scored 36 runs in 12 balls with the help of two fours and four sixes, scoring the team’s score to 200. While defending the target, Shabnim Ismail gave a big blow to Gujarat by dismissing Bath Mooney (six) in the first over itself. Daniel Gibson showed two fours in the root of Sika Ishaq but Harleen Deol (eight) was run out on the brilliant throw of Sanskriti Gupta. Captain Ashleg Gardner opened an account with a six against Mathews, but this all -round all all -rounder bowled him and gave him a big success for the team.

Gibson tried to reduce the necessary run speed by hitting a six against Amelia Kerr but Gibson was run out in the 10th over. Team completed a century of runs in the 11th over. After the required run speed reached 13 runs per over, Lichfield tried to play a big shot against Kerr and stumped a big shot, but Tania Bhatia scattered the gills and stumped her. Kashvi Gautam (four) was run out after being a victim of Galat with Bharti, who hit a six against Amanjot Kaur.

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Simran Sheikh managed to score 19 runs by hitting two fours and a six in the Nate-Cover’s over. After eating two consecutive fours, Mathews bowled Phulmali and showed the path of the pavilion. The dismissal of Sheikh on Kerr’s ball ended Gujarat’s expectations. The winter-bunt ball was played in the hands of Tanuja Kanwar (16) Harmanpreet. Mathews gave Meghna Singh a big victory to Mumbai Indians in the last over.

Earlier, after deciding the bowling, the Gujarat bowlers did not even get the support of the fielders. The team allowed several catches drip and scored runs with poor fielding. Considered the spinal cord of Mumbai Indians, Cyre-Bunt, while blowing the fast bowlers and spinners, scored 10 fours and two sixes. Mumbai had scored only 37 runs in the powerplay but after that Mathews and Cyver-Bunt changed the gear. The England batsman adopted an aggressive stand against fast bowler Daniel Gibson, while the same Mathews hit three consecutive fours off leg -spinner Priya Mishra.

Mathews first made a vigilant start and then completed his half -century by hitting a six off the ball of left -arm spinner Tanuja Kanwar. He hit 10 fours and three sixes in his innings. In the last over, Harmanpreet’s bat was raining sixes. He took the ball beyond the boundary line four times in his spectacular attempt. Mumbai Indians scored 73 runs in the last five overs.

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