This story is from March 27, 2023
Nat Sciver-Brunt hit an unbeaten half-century to steer Mumbai Indians to a seven-wicket victory over Delhi Capitals in the inaugural Women's Premier League final on Sunday.
Issy Wong and Hayley Matthews set up the victory as they claimed three wickets each after Delhi elected to bat first at the Brabourne Stadium.
Delhi crumbled under pressure despite a late blitz from Shikha Pandey (27*) and Radha Yadav (27*) lifted the team from 79/9 to bat out the innings.
Wong rattled the opposition top-order and then Matthews demolished the Delhi batting as she returned figures of 3/5.
Delhi looked down and out before number eight Shikha put on an unbeaten 52-run 10th-wicket stand off just 24 balls with Radha to take the total past 100.
Wong struck twice in her first over with the wickets of Shafali Verma (11) and Alice Capsey (0) to put Delhi on the back foot.
Skipper Meg Lanning and Jemimah Rodrigues hit back with four boundaries but Wong struck again with the wicket of Rodrigues as Delhi fell to 35/3.
The in-form Lanning consolidated her top spot in the tournament batting charts with 345 runs but her run out hurt Delhi badly.
Delhi kept losing wickets and collapsed from 73/3 with Amelia Kerr returning with 2/18 as Mumbai restricted Delhi to 131/9.