WPL 2025 remaining: Delhi Capitals Ladies vs Mumbai Indians Ladies; groups, stream – INA NEWS

Who: Delhi Capitals Ladies vs Mumbai Indians Ladies
What: Ladies’s Premier League (WPL) remaining 2025
The place: Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai, India.
When: Saturday, March 15 at 8pm (14:00 GMT)

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Delhi Capitals Ladies will hope to finish their woes within the WPL remaining as they face Mumbai Indians Ladies for the 2025 crown in Mumbai on Saturday.

It’s the third consecutive remaining that Delhi have reached, however they’re but to raise the trophy, and so they now face the workforce that beat them within the inaugural remaining 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 remaining?

Delhi Capitals topped the group stage from Mumbai Indians, who misplaced their remaining match – and with it, the highest spot – in an 11-run defeat by Royal Challengers Bengaluru on Monday.

The end result compelled Mumbai into an eliminator with third-placed Gujarat Giants on Thursday.

A convincing 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 remaining of the primary version of the WPL in 2023.

Royal Challengers Bangalore have been topped champions with an eight-wicket win final season.

Can Delhi Capitals finish their remaining 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 identical time, she has the quantity of readability in what she’s in search of. Profitable 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 positive she takes everybody alongside in doing that factor. I believe 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 identical time. And as a pacesetter, that’s a really essential high quality to have.”

2️⃣ 🔝 Groups
2️⃣ Nice Captains
1️⃣ Trophy 🏆

Who will win the 𝐒𝐮𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐭 𝐂𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐡? 🤔#Tatawl | #Dcvmi | #Ultimate | @DelhiCapitals | @mipaltan pic.twitter.com/OiI9OAt0ge

— Ladies’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 throughout the present season which she described as essentially the most difficult ever.

“Each participant provides a lot worth to the workforce that they only know their stuff,” she mentioned.

“I believe out of all of the three seasons, we’re most pleased with this 12 months, as a result of it wasn’t simple, however we discovered a approach 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 12 months however Mumbai have already got one WPL title beneath their belt – and Delhi carry their shedding streak within the finals with them into Saturday’s recreation.

“We now have a very 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 individuals within the workforce like Nat [Sciver-Brunt]. Melie [Amelia Kerr]Shab [Shabnim Ismail]myself, having the ability to step up as internationals.

“While you have a look at a captain like Harmanpreet [Kaur]even the younger gamers, like Sanskriti Gupta which have come on this 12 months, have been capable of make large impacts.”

How did the WPL attain its remaining in Mumbai?

The match has been on a highway journey throughout India with the opening six video games staged in Vadodara, earlier than eight have been performed in Bengaluru.

Lucknow and Mumbai concluded the 20-match group stage.

Thursday’s eliminator was additionally performed in Mumbai.

Consistency 🤝 Workforce work 🤝 Efficiency

Our two finalists had that in frequent on the highway to the #Ultimate 🛣

However who will fulfill their quest for glory? 🏆🤔 #Tatawl | #Dcvmi | @DelhiCapitals | @mipaltan pic.twitter.com/MkxmxLcEN9

— Ladies’s Premier League (WPL) (@wplt20) March 14, 2025

Are influence gamers allowed within the WPL?

Not like the Indian Premier League (IPL), the WPL doesn’t enable for a substitute participant to be introduced into the workforce throughout the match to make an influence.

Delhi’s Rodrigues hopes this stays the case. “I’m not an enormous fan of the influence 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 typically after they have bowled so effectively and have completed a lot after which in direction of the top, a correct batter is coming in.”

Has the WPL been a hit?

In response to West Indies white-ball captain and Mumbai all-rounder Hayley Matthews, Twenty20 leagues have remodeled girls’s cricket from a sport that after 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 international publicity and helped develop the ladies’s recreation.

“I really feel like as soon as upon a time, girls’s cricket was most likely 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 need to see us play cricket,” Matthews advised Reuters.

“Simply getting the chance to play these leagues and have all of the video games televised and have individuals 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 believe competitions just like the WPL give a platform for the sport to develop. It introduces individuals to the sport … exhibits the extent of ability that we’ve in girls’s cricket.”

𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙮 𝙈𝙚𝙚𝙩 𝘼𝙜𝙖𝙞𝙣….𝙄𝙣 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙁𝙞𝙣𝙖𝙡 😍

Delhi Capitals 🆚 Mumbai Indians

🗓 Saturday, March 15, 2025
⏰ 8.00 pm is
🏟 Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai#Tatawl | #Dcvmi | #Ultimate | @DelhiCapitals | @mipaltan pic.twitter.com/e2fyj21ViB

— Ladies’s Premier League (WPL) (@wplt20) March 13, 2025