MI beat RCB by 4 wickets in WPL 2025.© BCCI
Skipper Harmanpreet Kaur and Amanjot Kaur steered Mumbai Indians to an exciting four-wicket win over Royal Challengers Bengaluru in a Women’s Premier League match in Bengaluru on Friday. Ellyse Perry struck a wonderful half-century to guide RCB to a competitive 167 for seven after being sent in to bat. Perry made 81 off just 43 balls with the assistance of 11 fours and two sixes to lift RCB after they were stuttering at 57 for 4 at one time. Richa Ghosh (28 off 25) and skipper Smriti Mandhana (26 off 13 balls) also chipped in for RCB.
Medium pacer Amanjot was essentially the most successful bowler for MI with figures of three/22.
Chasing a competitive total, MI’s Harmanpreet (50 off 38 balls, 8x4s, 1×6)), Nat Sciver-Brunt (42 off 21; 9x4s) and Amanjot (34 off 27; 2x4s, 2x6s) made useful contributions to guide the team home with only one ball remaining.
MI lost Yastika Bhatia early but Hayley Matthews and Sciver-Brunt shared 55 runs for the second wicket to take the 2023 WPL champions’ chase forward.
Matthews made 15 off 10 balls before being trapped in front of the wicket by left-arm bowler Ekta Bisht.
Sciver-Brunt made 42 off 21 balls before she was cleaned up by Kim Garth.
Harmanpreet then joined forces with Amanjot after the dismissal of Amelia Kerr to take MI forward.
The pair shared 52 runs for the fifth wicket to maintain MI within the hunt before the previous sneaked a Georgia Wareham delivery to Richa Ghosh behind the stumps.
Wareham then accounted for Sajeevan Sajana with the subsequent delivery to make matters difficult for MI.
Amanjot, nevertheless, was going great guns as she hit off-spinner Kanika Ahuja for 2 sixes within the penultimate over — one off the primary ball and later off the last delivery — to bring down the equation to a run a ball in the ultimate over.
With Amanjot regular on one side, G Kamalini got MI home, hitting a boundary off Ekta Bisht at hand MI their first win over the defending champions in three attempts.
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