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WPL match No 18th DCW vs MIW . ÷ This match DC won by 9 wickets. ÷ Marizanne Kapp (Player of the Match): "Yes, lookto be honest, the bowling group deserves thisaward. They did a great job. On this wicket, wewant to bowl as the ball does quite a bit early on.It workedand happy with the win and team'sperformance. The more I play I get into rhytmand I read the wicket to do best. The catches thisteam is taking is amazing. The girls are putting agreat effort. This is an awesome fielding side asfar as I am concened. We want to continue thisgoing forward." Meg Lanning (Delhi Capitals Women Captain):"It was a great game, hard to fault much. We setthe match nicely with the ball. Kapp gave us ahead start with the ball and the way we chasedwas brilliant. Everyone came with the ball and didthe job for us. She (Kapp) is very talented. Sheis always eager to play andperform. It was thebowlers who did the job for us tonight. To restrictMumbai Indians to just above 100 was reallygreat. I was happy with the blue (after gettingthe orange cap). I don't think much about thesethings. A quick turnaround for us and we will lookto repeat what we did tonight." Alice Capsey (Delhi Capitals Women): "Delightedto get the win. We bowled well to restrict them tothat score. And then it was not doing much. Wedid well and we wanted to play this kind of brand.We showed our class. This is what wve wanted toplay and glad to get to the top of the table. Weboth are different and Shafali Verma strikes theball well and Ijust stick to my strengths.Important game tomorrow. We play UP and wewant to win. This game will give us confidencegoing forward and hope to win the game andfinish top." Harmanpreet Kaur (Mumbai Indians WomenCaptain): "We were 45 runs short. MWe wantedbreakthroughs. But they batted well. We bowledbadly, too many short balls and they battedwell and took advantage of it. Credit to themWe have to do well tomorrow. This is a wake upcall and hope to come back stronger tomorrow.Sometimes these things are needed. Iam happythat we will not be overconfident going intotomorrow and the coming games." Delhi Capitals Women won the toss earlier inthe evening and opted to field. The decision wasproved right by their seamers, who decimated theMumbai batting line-up and didn't allow any ofthe batters to stick around.Marizanne Kapp started the destruction bydismissing Yastika Bhatia and Nat Sciver-Brunt insuccessive deliveries of the second over. Mumbaididn't recover from this and finished at 109/8 intheir allotted 2O overs.They were 24/4 at one stage and it was theinnings' from Harmanpreet Kaur (23 off 26),Pooja Vastrakar (26 off 19), Amanjot Kaur (19 off16) and Issy Wong (23 off 24) which took thempast the 100-run mark. The partnership betweenHarmanpreet and Pooja of 377 runs for the 5thwicket was the highest of the innings.For DC, Marizanne Kapp (4-0-13-2), JessJonassen (4-0-25-2) and Shikha Pandey(4-0-21-2) picked two wickets while ArundhatReddy scalped a wicket.Chasinga small target of 110, DC openers ShafaliVerma and Meg Lanning came out all gunsblazing taking the attack to the MI bowlers. Bothadded 56 runs for the first wicket in just 4.2 oversbefore Hayley Matthews provided the teamwith the first breakthrough by dismissing thedangerous Shafali (33 off 15).Then Alice Capsey came and outplayed thebowlers to smash five biggies and score anunbeaten 38 runs off 17 balls, adding 54 runsthe second wicket alongside Lanning (32* off zzy,who anchored the innings. In the last ball of the.

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