MUMBAI, India, CMC – West Indies captain Hayley Matthews had little impact with bat or ball as Mumbai Indians slumped to their second loss in three days, to surrender top spot in the Women’s Premier League.
Sent in at the DY Patil Sports Academy here yesterday, Mumbai mustered only 109 for eight from their 20 overs and then watched as Delhi Capitals easily overhauled the target with 11 overs to spare, to win by nine wickets.
The 24-year-old Matthews failed with five at the top of the order and picked up the only wicket to fall in Capitals’ innings, her two overs of off-spin leaking 27 runs.
Capitals are now level with Mumbai on 10 points but ahead in the standings courtesy of a superior net run rate.
Matthews was apart of a collapse which saw Mumbai slump to 21 for four in the seventh over, the right-hander third out in the fourth over, brilliantly taken at wide mid on by a diving Jemimah Rodrigues off seamer Shikha Pandey (2-21). Pooja Vastrakar (26) and captain Harmanpreet Kaur (23) then stitched up the innings in a 37-run, fifth wicket stand before 20-year-old England rookie Issy Wong (23) and Amanjot Kaur (19) added a further 30 for the seventh to bolster the lower order.
The run chase proved uncomplicated, captain Meg Lanning hitting an unbeaten 32 off 22 deliveries in posting 56 for the first wicket with 19-year-old Indian sensation Shafali Verma (33) and 54 in an unbroken second wicket partnership with England’s Alice Capsey (38 not out), as Capitals coasted in reply.
Lanning struck four fours and a six while Verma blasted half-dozen fours and a six in a 15-ball cameo, before stepping out to Matthews, missing a swing and going stumped in the fifth over.
Capsey quickly banished any thoughts of a Mumbai comeback, belting a four and five sixes in a 17-ball stunner to carry Delhi home.
