MUM­BAI – There were no hero­ics from West In­dies Women’s cap­tain Hay­ley Matthews this time around, but that didn’t pre­vent the Mum­bai In­di­ans Women from lift­ing their sec­ond Women’s Pre­mier League (WPL) ti­tle af­ter de­feat­ing the Del­hi Cap­i­tals Women by eight runs in Sat­ur­day’s fi­nal in In­dia.

Play­ing at the Brabourne Sta­di­um, Mum­bai In­di­ans post­ed 149 for sev­en from their 20 overs, with Matthews scor­ing just three runs from 10 balls.

The Mum­bai In­di­ans were led by cap­tain Har­man­preet Kaur who made 66 from 40 balls, while Nat Sciv­er-Brunt made 30 off 28 balls, in an oth­er­wise dis­ap­point­ing bat­ting per­for­mance by the home side.

Ma­rizanne Kapp, Jess Jonassen and Shree Cha­rani took two wick­ets apiece for the Cap­i­tals.

Sciv­er-Brunt then re­turned to grab three wick­ets as the Del­hi Cap­i­tals were lim­it­ed to 141 for nine from their 20 overs.

The con­test seemed to be all but over when the Cap­i­tals slumped to 66 for five in the 11th over, but Kapp struck 40 from 26 balls and Ni­ki Prasad made an un­beat­en 23 to bring the vis­i­tors back in­to the match.

But with 14 runs need­ed off the fi­nal over, Sciv­er-Brunt held her nerve to con­cede just six runs and spark wild cel­e­bra­tions among the Mum­bai In­di­ans camp.

It was their sec­ond WPL ti­tle in three years af­ter win­ning the in­au­gur­al tour­na­ment in 2023.

CMC