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Nate Sciver-Brunt’s unbeaten half-century helped Mumbai Indians beat Delhi Capitals by seven wickets within the inaugural Girls’s Premier League closing on Sunday.

Isi Wong and Hayley Mathews arrange the win as they took three wickets every after electing to bat first on the Brabourne Stadium in Delhi.

Delhi succumbed to the strain regardless of a late strike from Shikha Pandey (27*) and Radha Yadav (27*) lifting the staff from 79/9 to bowl out the innings.

Wong rattled the opposition top-order after which Mathews dismantled the Delhi batting as he returned figures of three/5.

Shikha, at quantity eight, noticed Delhi down and out earlier than an unbeaten 52 for the tenth wicket off simply 24 balls with Radha taking the entire previous 100.

Wong took the wickets of Shefali Verma (11) and Alice Capsey (0) in her first over to place Delhi on the again foot.

Captain Meg Lanning and Jemimah Rodrigues hit 4 boundaries every however Wong struck once more with the wicket of Rodrigues as Delhi fell to 35/3.

An in-form Lanning consolidated his high place within the batting charts of the event with 345 runs however his run-out harm Delhi badly.

Delhi continued to lose wickets and fell to 73/3 with Amelia Kerr returning with 2/18 as Mumbai restricted Delhi to 131/9.

Mumbai chased down the goal with three balls to spare after Siever-Brunt (60*) and skipper Harmanpreet Kaur (37) stitched an important 72-run partnership for the third wicket.

Mumbai misplaced their openers inside 4 overs however Kaur and Sciver-Brunt withstood the strain.

The stand was damaged with the run out of Kaur however there was no stopping Sciver-Brunt.

Sciver-Brunt scored her third half-century within the event and shared an unbeaten 39-run stand with Amelia Kerr (14*).

Sciver-Brunt hit the profitable boundary as celebrations broke out within the Mumbai dugouts as the ladies added to the lads’s staff’s document tally of 5 IPL titles.

“This (win) means the whole lot. In the beginning of the competitors I did not know what to anticipate,” stated participant of the match Sciver-Brunt.

“It is actually particular to be standing right here with Mumbai Indians, with a particular group of women.”

Kaur stated: “It looks like a dream to everybody right here. So many individuals have been asking when the WPL will come and that day has come, and we’re very comfortable and proud.”

“We might have favored to have received tonight, however full credit score goes to Mumbai Indians for being excellent all through the event, in order that they deserved their win,” stated Lanning.