🏏WPL 2025: Mumbai Indians Women vs Delhi Capitals Women, Final 🏏 - Page 3

In previous editions at this venue, teams batting second did rather well, but the toss hasn't been a big advantage this year with the chasing side losing both matches so far.

Incidentally, the problem areas for both teams lie at the very top of the order. For MI, neither Yastika Bhatia nor Amelia Kerr have clicked alongside Hayley Mathews. And it's the same for GG who have tried out as many as four different partners for Beth Mooney without much success. Thankfully for both teams, the rest of the batting order seems to be doing rather well and should score heavily given the conditions at Brabourne.

Really want this time the uncapped team to win the title...

DC or GG

Pitch and conditions | Deep Dasgupta and Mithali Raj: Fresh pitch for the game tonight. 52 meters and 59 meters square boundaries. Straight boundary is 68 meters. The pitch is brownish in colour. There is decent amount of grass but it is only to bind the wicket. There are patches where there's not much grass, so it could be on the slower side. There is a little bit of moisture, but it probably will ease out when the match gets going. There could be help for seamers in the powerplay, but will ease out after that.

Gujarat Giants Women have won the toss and have opted to field

Gardner: We're going to bowl. It's another fresh wicket, and we feel that we did a lot of things right the other night. Didn't get the win, but taking a lot of positives from what we were able to do in the bowling innings. Dani Gibson comes in for Deandra Dottin. It happened five minutes ago because of an injury. Really unfortunate for such a big game, but stoked for Danielle who makes her debut. It's a pretty cool opportunity and hopefully she can shine. Generally it's high-scoring. Might be a little bit in the wicket early. Everyone's super excited.

Gujarat Giants Women (Playing XI): Beth Mooney(w), Kashvee Gautam, Harleen Deol, Ashleigh Gardner(c), Phoebe Litchfield, Danielle Gibson, Bharti Fulmali, Simran Shaikh, Tanuja Kanwar, Meghna Singh, Priya Mishra

Mumbai Indians Women (Playing XI): Hayley Matthews, Amelia Kerr, Nat Sciver-Brunt, Harmanpreet Kaur(c), Amanjot Kaur, Yastika Bhatia(w), Sajeevan Sajana, G Kamalini, Sanskriti Gupta, Shabnim Ismail, Saika Ishaque

Harmanpreet: Yeah it's a fresh pitch (would MI have bowled first as well?). For us, anything was okay. We have been in this situation twice and know how important this game is. Only thing which works well is when you stay in the moment. One change - Parunika is not playing and Saika is back.

Gardner: We're going to bowl. It's another fresh wicket, and we feel that we did a lot of things right the other night. Didn't get the win, but taking a lot of positives from what we were able to do in the bowling innings. Dani Gibson comes in for Deandra Dottin. It happened five minutes ago because of an injury. Really unfortunate for such a big game, but stoked for Danielle who makes her debut. It's a pretty cool opportunity and hopefully she can shine. Generally it's high-scoring. Might be a little bit in the wicket early. Everyone's super excited. We've played some really good cricket in this tournament. Apart from excitement, I'm sure there a lot of nerves as well in the camp as we've not been here before.

Gujarat Giants Women have won the toss and have opted to field

The big news from the toss is that Deandra Dottin is out with an injury which she picked up during the warmups apparently. Could be a massive miss for Gujarat Giants.

All set to go. Yastika is back at the top of the order along with Mathews. Kashvee has the ball and has one slip in place. Over the wicket..

Yastika and Matthews are at the crease. Yastika is on strike. Kashvee Gautam will open the attack