A captain's mistake cost MI dearly, the pain of losing a winless match was felt

Harmanpreet Kaur : In the eliminator match of WPL 2024, Mumbai Indians lost by 5 runs against Royal Challengers Bangalore. In this match, MI had a strong hold throughout the innings, but in the last two overs, RCB turned the tables and made it to the WPL final for the first time. The biggest reason for Mumbai was the wicket of captain Harmanpreet Kaur. Harman got a lease of life in the 18th over, however, she again took a risk on the last ball of the over and was out. His mistake cost Mumbai Indians dearly and this wicket became the turning point of the match. Batting first, RCB scored 135 runs, against this score Mumbai team could score only 130 runs in 20 overs.

Mumbai lost the match due to captain's mistake

Harmanpreet Kaur said after the match, “We bowled really well, we restricted them to less than 140. Batting was also good but we did not bat well in the last 12 balls. We needed just one four in 12 balls. found it.” , could not do. This game always teaches you something and puts you under pressure, you have to learn from it. When we lost our wicket, our batsmen could not keep their composure, that was the turning point.”

Only WPL can do the work of bringing out young players.

The MI skipper concluded, “We saw Sajjan in this tournament, he can hit really hard and WPL can do the job of bringing out the young players. We worked really hard, this season has been up and down for us, last season we had a really good performance but we learned a lot and hopefully next season we will prepare well and bounce back.”

Richa Ghosh missed the chance to stump

MI needed just 20 runs from the last three overs and had two sets of batsmen at the crease. Kaur also got a lease of life in the 18th over when Richa Ghosh missed a stumping opportunity. However, Shreyanka Patil maintained her composure and dismissed Harmanpreet on the last ball of her spell. After the fall of Harmanpreet's wicket, the defending champion RCB surrendered. When 12 runs were needed in the last over, Mandhana handed over the bowling to Asha Shobh and she did not disappoint her captain. He did not panic and led RCB to victory. Mumbai scored only 14 runs in the last 18 balls without hitting any boundary.