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A 100% record while chasing in the WPL is maintained, and how. Five runs needed off the last ball. Harmanpreet Kaur, after battling it out and putting Mumbai Indians right at the doorstep holes out. In walks the debutant Sajana Sajeevan. Alice Capsey tossed it up, and boom, it was over long-on, absolutely tonked with a full-blooded swing.

MUMBAI INDIANS HAD WON THEIR FIRST GAME OF WPL 2024, and boy, what a thriller it was!

The Sup-Harman-treat!

Much like how Mumbai Indians began their campaign in 2023 with Harmanpreet Kaur absolutely smashing the ball around, today (February 23) felt very similar. She walked in with the side in a spot of bother at 50/2 in the seventh over. She then injured her leg as well while running across and diving for a quick single. But history tells us, an injured Harman is twice as dangerous. And that is what is was. A switch clicked, she upped the ante, and smashed a 34-ball 55, with a much-needed six off the last ball of the 19^th over, and then a four off 19.4 to ensure the equation never got out of hand.

Yastika, Amelia nail their acts

Again, continuing from their 2023 show, Yastika Bhatia, was back getting the team off to solid starts, mixing caution and aggression equally as she steadied the ship when an early wicket fell, and then played the enforcer’s role when Harman was finding her touch. 57 runs | 45 balls | 8 fours | 2 sixes

And Amelia Kerr just continued from whe she left things in the Women’s Super Smash last month, bringing her form from Wellington to Mumbai with zero effort. She scooped, reversed, pulled, hooked, and with her 18-ball 24, played the perfect fiddle to Harman’s aggro.

And of course, the Sajana finish!

ICE COOL. Totally unflustered. A debut. 5 runs. 1 ball. Against an international pro. Nah. Sajana Sajeevan isn’t one to feel the nerves. So what if that was the first ball she was facing in her WPL career? She danced down the pitch, sent the ball into orbit, and let out a roar! THE ROAR OF A LIONESS!

Smile, for Shabnim Ismail is here

She was bang on the money in her first game in the Blue and Gold. She started off with a tidy one-run over to Meg Lanning and Shafali Varma, and in her next, got the ball to nip back in sharply and send the middle-stump on a cartwheel. She may have bid goodbye to international cricket, but her pace hasn’t. Oh, trust her to send shivers down the opposition’s spine.

Brief scores: Delhi Capitals: 171/5 (20 overs) (Alice Capsey 75; Jemimah Rodrigues 42; Nat Sciver-Brunt 2/33) lost to Mumbai Indians: 173/6 (20 overs) (Yastika Bhatia 57, Harmanpreet Kaur 55; Alice Capsey 2/27) by 4 wickets