Woeful MI suffer third consecutive defeat as Rodrigues holds firm with a measured chase to sink MI and open the playoffs race.
Rodrigues holds nerve as DC hand woeful MI third straight loss.
The WPL points table is experiencing traffic congestion. Delhi Capitals skipper Jemimah Rodrigues led her team across the finish line in a valiant pursuit to prolong the Mumbai Indians’ (MI) losing skid to three games in a row, one day after RCB qualified for the playoffs. With the exception of RCB, all four teams now have four points apiece after DC moved up from the bottom to move Gujarat Giants to fifth.
Rodrigues was dismissed by DC after requiring 71 off 58 balls while chasing 155 on a sluggish Vadodara track. Rodrigues and Laura Wolvaardt were forced to primarily trade singles and doubles as the MI bowlers dried out the boundaries by slowing down on a pitch that was also kept a bit low.
But Rodrigues persisted in identifying the boundaries—square and beyond square—to reduce the problem to a more manageable 27 from 18. With one over remaining, Marizanne Kapp smoked a six to seal the match after she put the ball in the gaps for three more boundaries.
After yet another sluggish powerplay with the bat, MI was earlier restricted. After the openers failed once more, Shree Charani’s 3 for 33 wounded MI as they attempted to pump the pedal, and Nat Sciver-Brunt did the heavy lifting once more with an undefeated 65 after Harmanpreet Kaur fell for 41. However, nearly every DC hitter got going, and Rodrigues scored her first fifty of the season and as WPL captain, so the total was insufficient.