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Best performances - Batsmen

EA Perry
81(43) 11x4 - 2x6
Control %90%
  • Productive Shot
  • pull
  • 22 runs
  • 5x4 - 0x6
1 12 4 4 10 10 24 16
H Kaur
50(38) 8x4 - 1x6
Control %76%
  • Productive Shot
  • cut shot
  • 22 runs
  • 5x4 - 0x6
8 0 7 20 5 1 0 9

Best performances - Bowlers

G Wareham
G Wareham
O4
M1
R21
W3
Eco5.25
RHB
OFFLEG
1W
1W
1W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF
AB Kaur
O3
M0
R22
W3
Eco7.33
RHB
OFFLEG
1W
1W1W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF

Match Details

Toss

Mumbai Indians Women , elected to field first

Player Of The Match

Season

Hours of play (local time)

19.30 start, First Session 19.30-21.00, Interval 21.00-21.20, Second Session 21.20-22.50

Match days

21 February 2025 - night match (20-over match)

TV Umpires

Reserve Umpire

Match Referee

Points

Mumbai Indians Women 2, Royal Challengers Bengaluru Women 0

Scorer: M Venkat Raghav | Commentator: Shashwat Kumar

11:25pm And...breathe. Another splendid game of cricket that ebbed, flowed and ultimately shifted towards the Mumbai Indians. We hope you enjoyed our coverage as much as we loved bringing it to you. We will be back tomorrow with more action lined up, and until then, this is goodbye from Venkat Raghav and myself. Take care, folks!

Amanjot Kaur, Player of the Match: It feels very good (to win the match for the team). I knew that they might give an over to Kanika and against off-spinners, I have more options. I felt that if I stayed there, we could win the match. When she (Kamalini) came in, I knew I had to make her settle by taking singles and that I had to target the 19th over if we were to win. (On what Harmanpreet said to her after being dismissed) She told me that I could do it easily. I did not do anything different (with the ball). I wanted to bowl stump-to-stump and back my variations. God's plan is always greater than ours.

Harmanpreet Kaur, Mumbai Indians captain: We just wanted to play good cricket. We knew the crowd is going to play a big role, so we wanted to stay together. I thought we did well. We wanted to chase because at this ground, dew will come and batting gets easier when batting second - that is why we wanted them to bat first. Very happy (with the bowlers). They all know their roles, when they are going to bowl - everything went well and happy the way we played today. (Chat to Amanjot) I told her that that was the last over for their main bowler (Wareham) and that bowlers who did not have a lot of experience would bowl (after). She (Amanjot) is a good player but inexperienced, we should give credit to her the way she batted and bowled. Lots of areas to improve. As a team, we will sit together and assess.

Smriti Mandhana, Royal Challengers Bengaluru captain: (Turning point) Can't say one turning point but really proud of the way the girls fought back. Pez (Perry) brought us back in the game. Bowlers put up a good fight, we have two days to think about what went wrong. The first time we have batted first in the tournament. Last two games were brilliant as a batting unit, so won't be critical of things tonight. We got set and did not kind of plan the over well - that is a big takeaway for me and the rest of the batting unit. (On the conditions) I think the ball was coming on pretty well. The outfield in Vadodara was quicker. The wicket played pretty well and had something in it for the spinners. Similar to our batting, they started well in the powerplay. After Hayley got out, we still had a chance. 7-8 overs in the middle were brilliant and that was really positive. In T20 cricket, with 2-3 wickets you are always in the game, and we never thought we were out of the game (even after the start MI got).

Charlotte Edwards, Mumbai Indians head coach: I am pretty happy, to be fair. Just delighted to get over the line against a really good RCB team in front of their crowd - really special. (On Amanjot) Success as a team in this competition is about how well your domestic players play. We know she can do this. What an innings and those sixes at the end were pretty special. (On the loss to the Capitals) We talked a lot about that game and were disappointed. But we stayed positive, we played well against Gujarat. We bat deep and it is on me to get them in the right order. What a superstar she (Kamalini) is going to be. She is a cheeky, little thing but what a job she did tonight. We are taking each game as it comes, we knew bowling first tonight was in our favour but then you have to get the runs, which I thought we did quite calmly, until that last few overs. Chuffed to get the win.

Vishal Pawar: "What a playaaaa, Amanjot. Take a bow!"

11:03pm There are moments in sport where you just run out of words. Where whatever happens, seems too magical to ever be put down in words. And tonight, seeing a 16 year old, who was busy winning India the U-19 World Cup a few weeks ago, rock up in the defending champions' den and winning the Mumbai Indians a game they could have easily lost, falls into that category perfectly.

The Mumbai Indians had this game in their grasp. And then, suddenly, they didn't. RCB, too, seemed to have it under control until the initiative was wrestled away from them. In hindsight, they will probably look at their decision to bowl out Garth and Renuka early, but given how MI were rattling along, that is a gamble that perhaps needed to be taken at that stage, with the appeal of a partnership-breaking wicket outweighing the benefits at the death.

A few ifs and buts there, and it must also be said RCB possibly left a few runs out there. Not the sort of homecoming they would have envisioned but even when defeated, RCB did not throw in the towel, which will be a positive they take away from tonight.

19.5
4
Bisht to Kamalini, FOUR, G Kamalini, 16 years, two WPL games old, and she produces this - a nerveless display under enormous pressure to stun thousands of RCB supporters, and to give MI their first win over the defending champions in three attempts! A magnificent game of cricket and it all came down to the wire, with the youngster finishing off the game like she was always meant to! Back to the ball. Bisht makes the mistake of offering width and that is just what Kamalini wants. She makes room for herself, gets her hands through the ball and crrrrrrrrrrrrunnnnnnnnnchhhhhessssssssss it through the off-side ring. Tears away in celebration soon after and she is a bundle of joy, as are those clad in the blue and gold. A last-gasp win to reiterate their pedigree, but a last-ball win that will sting for RCB, especially on their homecoming day and on an evening that they would have wanted to pan out very differently!

2 off 2

19.4
1
Bisht to AB Kaur, 1 run, miscued but safe again! Angled in on a length on leg stump. Amanjot swings at it and gets enough of an inside edge to clear mid wicket

This game is finely poised and you can cut the tension with a knife

19.3
1
Bisht to Kamalini, 1 run, safe! Fullish on leg stump. Kamalini nearly swings herself off her feet and chips it on the bounce to long on

Keeper up to the stumps now. She was standing back for the first two balls

19.2
2
Bisht to Kamalini, 2 runs, low full toss well outside leg. Kamalini charges down the track and heaves at it with all her might. Does not time it well and the ball plugs in the wide long on region, allowing a brace
19.1
0
Bisht to Kamalini, no run, huge mix-up but not a catastrophic one! Zipped into the blockhole on the pads. Kamalini digs it out towards mid wicket. Amanjot hares down for the single, only to get sent back. Gets back in time, though

Right. 6 off 6. Bisht to bowl the last over. Around the wicket. Surely MI will not botch this from here? Uh-oh, RCB have also been penalized for having a slow over-rate, meaning they now need to have an extra fielder in the ring - everything happening here at the Chinnaswamy!

END OF OVER:
19 | 16 Runs | MI-W: 162/6 (6 runs required from 6 balls, RR: 8.52, RRR: 6.00)

  • Amanjot Kaur33 (26b)
  • G Kamalini4 (4b)
  • Kanika Ahuja2-0-28-0
  • Georgia Wareham4-1-21-3
18.6
6
Ahuja to AB Kaur, SIX, in the air, in the air and out of the ground! Oh, Amanjot Kaur, the girl's a star! Tossed up again on a length outside off. Amanjot shimmies down the track, gets close enough to it and wallops it clean over long on. RCB hearts sink, and the crowd cannot believe what has just happened!

MI Women 2nd innings Partnerships

WktRunsPlayers
1st9HK MatthewsYH Bhatia
2nd57HK MatthewsNat Sciver-Brunt
3rd8H KaurNat Sciver-Brunt
4th8H KaurAC Kerr
5th62H KaurAB Kaur
6th0S SajanaAB Kaur
7th26AB KaurG Kamalini