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Delhi Capitals fell in the Women’s Premier League-2023 final. Delhi Capitals, who won the toss and batted first, scored 131 runs for the loss of 9 wickets in the final match against Mumbai Indians on Sunday night at the Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai. In the last two overs, Shikha Pandey (27 not out: 17 balls 3×4, 1×6) and Radha Yadav (27 not out: 12 balls 2×4, 2×6) played aggressively and gave Delhi Capitals a fighting score. Among the Mumbai bowlers, Mathews and Wang took three wickets each. Care took two wickets.
Delhi Capitals won the toss and chose to bat. Opener Shefali Verma (11) hit a six and a four in the second over and got out. Capsi (0) and Jemima Rodrigues (9) who came later took wickets for a low score. All three were dismissed on full toss balls by Wong’s bowling. However.. Captain Lanning (35: 5×4 off 29 balls) stayed at the crease for a while. But.. she got support. Arundhati Reddy (0), Jansen (2), Tania Bhatia (0) were disappointing. With that, the Delhi team ended up with 79/9 at the end of 16 overs and it looked like they were going to end up less than 100K.
But.. Radha Yadav and Shikha Pandey exploded with huge shots in the last two overs. This pair scored 20 runs in the form of 6, 4, 4, 1, 4, 1 in the 19th over of the innings bowled by Wong. After that, Radha Yadav hit the last two balls for sixes in Brunt bowling in the last over. That made 16 runs. Overall, Delhi Capitals scored 36 runs in the last two overs.
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