Who: Delhi Capitals Girls vs Mumbai Indians Girls
What: Girls’s Premier League (WPL) last 2025
The place: Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai, India.
When: Saturday, March 15 at 8pm (14:00 GMT)
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Delhi Capitals Girls will hope to finish their woes within the WPL last as they face Mumbai Indians Girls for the 2025 crown in Mumbai on Saturday.
It’s the third consecutive last that Delhi have reached, however they’re but to carry the trophy, and so they now face the workforce that beat them within the inaugural last in 2023, Mumbai Indians.
Al Jazeera takes a have a look at the ultimate of the third version of the match.
How did the groups attain the WPL last?
Delhi Capitals topped the group stage from Mumbai Indians, who misplaced their last match – and with it, the highest spot – in an 11-run defeat by Royal Challengers Bengaluru on Monday.
The outcome compelled Mumbai into an eliminator with third-placed Gujarat Giants on Thursday.
A powerful 47-run victory was recorded as Hayley Matthews smashed 77 in a complete of 213-4.
Who’re the earlier WPL winners?
Mumbai Indians beat Delhi by seven wickets within the last of the primary version of the WPL in 2023.
Royal Challengers Bangalore had been topped champions with an eight-wicket win final season.
Can Delhi Capitals finish their last jinx?
Former Australia captain Meg Lanning has led Delhi because the formation of the WPL and vice captain on the Capitals believes her skipper’s profitable mentality and unwavering optimism are instrumental
“Meg is somebody who desires to win each recreation. However, on the similar time, she has the quantity of readability in what she’s on the lookout for. Successful is one factor that she tells us, however she additionally tells us to deal with what we have to do,” India batter Jemimah Rodrigues mentioned of the seven-time World Cup winner.
“She has readability in what she desires to do and what she desires this workforce to do and makes certain she takes everybody alongside in doing that factor. I feel that helps us be a profitable workforce.
“The factor I like about Meg, and that is one thing that I want to add in myself … is that she’s calm however aggressive on the similar time. And as a frontrunner, that’s a really essential high quality to have.”
2️⃣ 🔝 Groups
2️⃣ Nice Captains
1️⃣ Trophy 🏆Who will win the 𝐒𝐮𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐭 𝐂𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐡? 🤔#TATAWPL | #DCvMI | #Ultimate | @DelhiCapitals | @mipaltan pic.twitter.com/OiI9OAt0ge
— Girls’s Premier League (WPL) (@wplt20) March 14, 2025
Who’re the WPL’s main run scorers?
- Nat Sciver (Brunt Mumbai Indians) – 416
- Ellyse Perry (Royal Challengers Bengaluru) – 372
- Shafali Verma (Delhi Capitals) – 300
- Meg Lanning (Delhi Capitals) – 263
Who’re the WPL’s main wicket-takers?
- Amelia Kerr (Mumbai Indians) – 14
- Hayley Matthews (Mumbai Indians) – 14
- Georgia Wareham (Royal Challengers Bangalore) – 12
What’s the secret to Delhi Capitals’ consistency?
Rodrigues has credited the workforce’s professionalism and unity for his or her consistency, particularly in the course of the present season which she described as essentially the most difficult ever.
“Each participant provides a lot worth to the workforce that they simply know their stuff,” she mentioned.
“I feel out of all of the three seasons, we’re most pleased with this yr, as a result of it wasn’t simple, however we discovered a solution to choose ourselves up and nonetheless come on the high.”
What are Mumbai’s possibilities of overcoming Delhi?
Delhi might have topped the group this yr however Mumbai have already got one WPL title underneath their belt – and Delhi carry their shedding streak within the finals with them into Saturday’s recreation.
“Now we have a extremely good steadiness of worldwide gamers in addition to the native Indian gamers, too,” Matthews mentioned as she analysed the Mumbai squad.
“We get contributions from so many alternative members within the workforce like Nat [Sciver-Brunt], Melie [Amelia Kerr], Shab [Shabnim Ismail], myself, having the ability to step up as internationals.
“Whenever you have a look at a captain like Harmanpreet [Kaur], even the younger gamers, like Sanskriti Gupta which have come on this yr, have been capable of make huge impacts.”
How did the WPL attain its last in Mumbai?
The match has been on a highway journey throughout India with the opening six video games staged in Vadodara, earlier than eight had been performed in Bengaluru.
Lucknow and Mumbai concluded the 20-match group stage.
Thursday’s eliminator was additionally performed in Mumbai.
Consistency 🤝 Group work 🤝 Efficiency
Our two finalists had that in widespread on the highway to the #Ultimate 🛣
However who will fulfill their quest for glory? 🏆🤔 #TATAWPL | #DCvMI | @DelhiCapitals | @mipaltan pic.twitter.com/MkxmxLcEN9
— Girls’s Premier League (WPL) (@wplt20) March 14, 2025
Are impression gamers allowed within the WPL?
Not like the Indian Premier League (IPL), the WPL doesn’t permit for a substitute participant to be introduced into the workforce in the course of the match to make an impression.
Delhi’s Rodrigues hopes this stays the case. “I’m not an enormous fan of the impression participant [rule] as a result of I’m somebody who loves the foundations we have already got,” she mentioned.
“It’s unfair to the bowlers additionally generally after they have bowled so properly and have performed a lot after which in the direction of the top, a correct batter is coming in.”
Has the WPL been a hit?
In keeping with West Indies white-ball captain and Mumbai all-rounder Hayley Matthews, Twenty20 leagues have reworked ladies’s cricket from a sport that when relied on public assist for survival into an interesting spectacle.
The 26-year-old, who shot to fame within the West Indies’ 2016 T20 World Cup triumph, mentioned T20 leagues just like the WPL have fostered world publicity and helped develop the ladies’s recreation.
“I really feel like as soon as upon a time, ladies’s cricket was in all probability like, ‘Come and watch the sport to assist the ladies,’ whereas now I really feel like we’ve a product that’s entertaining and we’ve these abilities that individuals wish to see us play cricket,” Matthews instructed Reuters.
“Simply getting the chance to play these leagues and have all of the video games televised and have folks watching and supporting is of course going to assist the sport to develop.
“There’s loads of alternatives for ladies to develop in cricket and I feel competitions just like the WPL give a platform for the sport to develop. It introduces folks to the sport … reveals the extent of talent that we’ve in ladies’s cricket.”
𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙮 𝙈𝙚𝙚𝙩 𝘼𝙜𝙖𝙞𝙣….𝙄𝙣 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙁𝙞𝙣𝙖𝙡 😍
Delhi Capitals 🆚 Mumbai Indians
🗓 Saturday, March 15, 2025
⏰ 8.00 PM IST
🏟 Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai#TATAWPL | #DCvMI | #Ultimate | @DelhiCapitals | @mipaltan pic.twitter.com/e2fyj21ViB— Girls’s Premier League (WPL) (@wplt20) March 13, 2025
