Meg Lanning has been frustrated in the last obstacle to the third consecutive year in its frustrating attempt to take Delhi’s capitals to victory in the Women’s Premier League of India.
For the second time in three finals, the former Captain of Australia had to bow before his former counterpart from India Harmanpreet Kaur, since the capitals were defeated by eight races by the Mumbai Indians in Saturday’s confrontation.
And at the end of the third edition of a tournament in which the Australian players had constantly shone, there was a great disappointment by the Australian Lanning trio of Delhi, Jess Jonasen and Annabel Sutherland, who failed to deliver with the bat while trying to pursue a modest 7-149.
In the same Brabourne stadium, where his team lost the inaugural title in front of the delusional support in the Mumbai’s home in 2023, Lanning felt the same sinking feeling after Delhi was fought once she was fired by 13, cleaned for the entire land of England Nat Sciver-Brunt.
Sciver-Brunt finished the tournament in the same magnificent way he had shown at all times, scoring 30 of 28 balls and taking 3-30. She was the top scorer of the tournament with 523 races, fourth in the bowling lists with 12 wickts and a flagship winner of the MVP award of the event.
But it was his formidable 36 -year -old captain Harmanpreet who was the key to victory, since his brave 66 of 44 balls, since the Wickts fell around him, made sure that Mumbai began to hit, at least established Delhi a challenging goal.
“We are very disappointed. We feel that we get in a good position to win, but that is the game, you want some that you lose some, and unfortunately, we have been on the wrong side,” Lanning said.
Having overcome the league table to win the direct qualification of the final, everything went to Delhi, since Mumbai staggered 2-20 at the end of the power game.
But Harmanpreet and Sciver-Brunt brought the Indians out of a hole with an association of 89 races, with 15 limits.
Jonasen (2-26) and Sutherland (1-29) had made their part to restrict Mumbai’s total, but one of them needed to produce with the bat once the blow of nine lanning balls was reduced at the top of the order.
But New Zealand’s spinner, Amelia Kerr, the winner of ‘Purple Cap’ of the tournament as the best wickt carrier with 18 scalp, made Jonassen backward for 13 from a Googly and Sutherland stayed perplexed for only two after being deceived by the left turn of Saika Ishaque.
Marizanne Kapp (40) and Jemimah Rodrigues (30) tried to keep Delhi’s dream alive, but obtained little support, with only the last 25 of Niki Prasad, 23 of 23 demonstrating too little late in his 9-141.
The contributions of the Australians to the 2025 edition of the WPL were subsequently marked by the season awards to Ash Gardner, the patron of the Gujarat Giants that reached the largest amount of six (18), already Annabel Sutherland, whose sprinting dive faces in the deep, in a previous match against Mumbai, was voted by the tournament.
However, ultimately, the title was the only team in the tournament without an Australian in its ranks.
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