2024-03-04 04:18:39
Bengaluru: Mumbai Indians continued their strong play in the Women’s Premier League 2024 and achieved their third win in the tournament. In the 9th match of the tournament, Mumbai team defeated Royal Challengers Bangalore team by 7 wickets. In the match, RCB team, batting first, could score only 131 runs for 6 wickets in 20 overs. In response to this score, Mumbai team scored 133 runs after losing only 3 wickets in 15.1 overs. In this way the RCB team had to face its second consecutive defeat. In the last match, RCB was defeated by Delhi Capitals.
Nat Sciver Brunt, who came to captain the Mumbai team in place of Harmanpreet Kaur, had decided to bowl first after winning the toss. The captain’s decision proved to be completely correct and Mumbai kept a tight grip on RCB from the very beginning. In bowling, Nat Sciver-Brunt and Pooja Vastrakar took two wickets each in the match for Mumbai. Apart from this, Sarika Ishaq and Issy Vaughan took one wicket each.
RCB batsmen failed
RCB’s batting was very disappointing in this match against Mumbai. The team lost its 4 wickets on the score of just 42 runs. Although Ellis Perry definitely handled the innings in the middle order and played a strong inning of 44 runs, but he could not get support from other batsmen. In such a situation, the entire RCB team could score only 131 runs in 20 overs.
Mumbai achieved the target easily
In this match against RCB, Mumbai team faced any difficulty in achieving the target. For the team, Yastika Bhatia (31) and Hailey Mathews (26) together made a partnership of 45 runs for the first wicket. After this, captain Brunt (27) and Emilia Kerr (40) together took the team to the target easily.