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Jemimah Rodrigues holds the D.Y. Patil Stadium adjacent to her heart. It is wherever the section favourite made her Test debut, won her archetypal World Cup, and began her tally arsenic skipper of Delhi Capitals successful the Women’s Premier League. That past experience, however, brought with it a 50-run decision to Mumbai Indians successful its 2026 run opener present connected Saturday.
MI came into the lucifer licking its wounds from the nonaccomplishment to Royal Challengers Bengaluru a nighttime anterior and seemed to person had immoderate hard conversations. However, the archetypal fewer overs aft being enactment successful to bat eerily resembled the defending champion’s struggles against RCB.
Amelia Kerr was sent backmost by Chinelle Henry for a duck, courtesy a superb Lizelle Lee down the stumps. G. Kamalini could lone crawl to a 19-ball 16 earlier falling to debutant Nandani Sharma.
Nat Sciver-Brunt’s battle near Jemimah stumped for answers and helped Harmanpreet Kaur interruption free, the brace stitching a quick-fire 66-run stand.
Shree Charani dialled up the gait to snare Sciver-Brunt. Harmanpreet had Nicola Carey for institution to inflict much harm earlier Nandani sent the second packing. Despite having a large night, the Chandigarh medium-pacer was amazingly fixed lone 3 overs. Harmanpreet plundered 19 runs disconnected the last implicit to instrumentality MI conscionable abbreviated of 200.
The caller DC opening brace of Shafali Verma and Lee started cautiously, with Shabnim Ismail’s searing gait posing questions aplenty. Sciver-Brunt removed the unsafe Lee with an off-cutter portion Carey struck disconnected Shafali and Laura Wolvaardt for single-digit scores successful a span of 3 balls.
Jemimah perished for 1 soon arsenic Kamalini’s fantastic one-handed drawback did the job. Marizanne Kapp knelt connected 1 genu to fume Carey for a six down the crushed but holed retired to abbreviated 3rd portion attempting an encore disconnected the adjacent ball.
Henry braved the demoralising autumn of wickets astatine the different end, scoring a half-century on the way. But Carey, who dropped her successful the 14th over, dismissed her successful the 18th, efficaciously snuffing retired DC’s hopes of an opening win.
The scores: MI 195/4 successful 20 overs (Sciver-Brunt 70, Harmanpreet 74 n.o., Nandani 2/26) bt Delhi Capitals 145 successful 19 overs (Henry 56, Sciver-Brunt 2/29, Carey 3/37, Kerr 3/24).
