In Friday’s Women’s Premier League match in Bengaluru, Mumbai Indians defeated Royal Challengers Bengaluru by an exciting four wickets, led by captain Harmanpreet Kaur and Amanjot Kaur.
Mumbai Indians defeated Royal Challengers Bengaluru by a thrilling four wickets on Friday in a Women’s Premier League match played in Bengaluru, led by captain Harmanpreet Kaur and Amanjot Kaur. Ellyse Perry was asked to bat and scored a brilliant half-century to lead RCB to a respectable 167 for seven. At one point, RCB was struggling at 57 for 4, but Perry turned things around with 81 off only 43 balls, including two sixes and 11 fours. For RCB, Richa Ghosh (28 off 25) and captain Smriti Mandhana (26 off 13 balls) both contributed.
Moderately fast Amanjot, who had stats of 3/22, was MI’s most productive bowler.
MI’s Nat Sciver-Brunt (42 off 21; 9x4s), Harmanpreet (50 off 38 balls, 8x4s, 1×6), and Amanjot (34 off 27; 2x4s, 2x6s) all contributed effectively to leading the team home with one ball left as they chased a competitive total.
Before Hayley Matthews and Sciver-Brunt combined 55 runs for the second wicket, MI lost Yastika Bhatia, but they continued to pursue the 2023 WPL winners.
Before left-arm bowler Ekta Bisht trapped Matthews in front of the wicket, he had scored 15 off 10 balls.Kim Garth cleaned her up after Sciver-Brunt scored 42 off 21 balls.
Following Amelia Kerr’s dismissal, Harmanpreet teamed up with Amanjot to advance MI.
Before the former slipped a Georgia Wareham delivery to Richa Ghosh behind the stumps, the two batted together for 52 runs for the fifth wicket, keeping MI in the hunt.
In order to complicate things for MI, Wareham then accounted for Sajeevan Sajana with the subsequent delivery.
However, Amanjot was on fire as she reduced the score to a run a ball in the penultimate over by hitting off-spinner Kanika Ahuja for two sixes, one off the first ball and the other off the final delivery.G Kamalini brought MI home with a boundary off Ekta Bisht, giving them their first victory over the reigning champs in three tries, while Amanjot remained firm on one side.
