Shafali Verma, Niki Prasad star as DC seal last-ball thriller

Barely 24 hours after 202 was chased down easily on the opening night of WPL 2025, a target of 165 proved to be tricky on the same pitch for Delhi Capitals, who got over the line on the last ball against Mumbai Indians for a two-wicket win. It came down to 30 from 18, 10 from six, two off the last ball and eventually a matter of centimetres as Arundhati Reddy put in a dive to make her ground that turned out to be the winning runs. Under-19 World Cup-winning commander Niki Prasad will recollect her WPL debut for taking DC inside contacting distance. She kept the pursuit intact eventually with her 35 off 33 and began the last once again with a four when they required 10 to win yet holed out when the condition was two off two. The game in any case saw implodes in the two innings subsequent to bursting thumps from the forefront players. Nat Sciver-Brunt drove MI to a decent complete with her unbeaten 80 off 59 and Harmanpreet Kaur impacted 42 off 22, yet they before long lost 7 for 35. Shafali Verma's 43 off 18 set the vibe for the pursuit to pound away 60 runs for DC in the powerplay, yet they before long lost four wickets for 16 runs that made the condition undeniably more tense and brought it down to the last ball. Niki Prasad directed Delhi Capitals late in the pursuit, Mumbai Indians versus Delhi Capitals, WPL 2025, Vadodara, February 15, 2025 As the coordinate got increasingly close with DC losing wickets, there were three run-out choices that all went to the third umpire Gayathri Venugopalan, and those chose the game. The first came in the eighteenth over when Shikha Pandey was given not out on her most memorable ball, which brought about DC getting a bye. No piece of Pandey's bat appeared to be inside the wrinkle when the Drove wicket illuminated, however the third umpire gave it not out, putting together her choice with respect to a later TV outline in which the bail was noticeably unstuck. The second came in the following over when DC required 16 from eight. Radha Yadav was given not out when she wound up skipping her bat off the ground while making a plunge; the bat was in the air when the wicket illuminated yet the umpire, once more, was heard going by when the stumps were noticeably broken. Radha then crushed the following ball for a six and brought the condition down to 10 off the last finished. The keep going occasion was on the last chunk of the game, when DC required two off two. Reddy put in a plunge while attempting to finish the subsequent run and the stumps illuminated when the bat appeared to be on the wrinkle line however the third umpire gave it not out once more and it started off festivals for DC. Shafali swings the powerplay in support of DC Shafali came out all firearms blasting even as Shabnim Ismail made Meg Lanning look dumbfounded against her outswingers and beat her multiple times in 12 balls before at last pushing over her off stump. Shafali, at the opposite end, attacked Saika Ishaque with a pugnacious hit for a 22-run over. She followed a major six over the covers with four successive fours, three of which hustled to the off-side limit and one straight back over Ishaque's head. Shafali then, at that point, took Hayley Matthews for 15 runs in the last powerplay over with two fours and a six despite the fact that she mis-planned one in the equivalent over to midwicket. Two WPL debutants hold their nerve for DC Two balls later Lanning fell when Ismail got a fourth in a row over and it before long became four wickets in four overs when Jemimah Rodrigues was excused by Amelia Kerr and Annabel Sutherland missed a shooter from Sciver-Brunt. At the point when DC thought the organization between Alice Capsey and Prasad of 33 was welcoming them in the groove again, Capsey tracked down Ismail at long-on and DC were in a difficult situation, actually requiring 56 off 31 with five wickets down. The match turned again when another WPL debutant, Sarah Bryce, likewise rebuffed Ishaque and afterward followed an edged four off Sciver-Brunt with a six on the leg side. Bryce before long fell however, for 21 off 10, yet Prasad held her nerve to chaperone the lower request into the last over before it went down to the last ball. Pandey's swing and Sciver-Brunt's class Pandey made a heavenly beginning to her WPL crusade with some delightful inswing into both right and left-hand hitters. She struck two times in her most memorable spell; first in the primary over when she made Matthews edge to slip for a duck and four overs later she pushed over Yastika Bhatia's leg stump in a thrifty spell of 3-0-8-2. However, different bowlers were not saved so a lot. Capsey released 19 runs in an over, with Sciver-Brunt showing her adroitness by putting the ball completely in the holes for limits. She spotted one late off Capsey on off, she scooped Reddy on leg, and she released strong pulls to help MI to 41 for 2 in the powerplay. Harmanpreet tosses the mallet Harmanpreet frequently begins slow and afterward out of nowhere flicks her switch on in T20s, and on Saturday this occurred in the eighth over. When she cut Radha over cover-point for four off a no-ball, Harmanpreet sent off the free hit for a six over lengthy off to make it a 18-run over. Next finished, she picked Reddy for a six over lengthy on in a 15-run over yet the attack didn't keep going excessively lengthy. After consecutive fours off Sutherland on the off side, Harmanpreet smoked a six over the midwicket rope to reach 8000 T20 runs and followed it with one more four over point. Yet, when she went for one more cut outside off, she gave a catch to Prasad; no other person would hit a six in the rest of the MI innings. Sciver-Brunt the solitary lady standing Sciver-Brunt had likewise struck eight fours by then to lead MI past 100 with Sutherland's 20-run over. Sciver-Brunt arrived at fifty off 36 balls to keep MI in contacting distance of 10 an over with seven overs to go and seven wickets close by. MI, nonetheless, slipped and didn't endure each of the 20 overs; they lost wickets in essentially every over from subsequently. Kerr was run-out at the non-striker's end when Minnu Mani diverted a ball off her own bowling, S Sajana edged a more slow one to the manager, Amanjot Kaur yorked herself against Capsey to lose her stumps, and there were two additional run-outs as the tailenders attempted to give the strike to Sciver-Brunt at the passing. At the point when she got strike, she utilized her ability to despatch the more seasoned ball and got done with her most elevated WPL score.