Mumbai Indians became WPL champions, South Africa made the record of biggest win


Mumbai Indians have won the title of the first season of the Women’s Premier League. In the title match, Mumbai easily defeated Delhi Capitals by 7 wickets.


Mumbai Indians have won the title of the first season of the Women’s Premier League. In the title match, Mumbai easily defeated Delhi Capitals by 7 wickets. In the final match played on Sunday at the Veer Bhagat Singh (Brabourne) Stadium in Mumbai, Delhi won the toss and decided to bat first, but Mumbai’s fast bowler Issiwong could not recover from the start of the two strokes and the Delhi team could not recover till the end. The whole team could score only 131 runs for 9 wickets in the stipulated 20 overs. Shikha Pandey scored the maximum 23 runs. Mumbai achieved the target of 132 runs for victory by losing only 3 wickets with 3 balls remaining in the 20th and last over.

In the T20 International match, South Africa has set a new record by achieving the biggest target of 259 runs for victory. Batting first in the second T20I match of the three-match series, West Indies scored 258 runs for 5 wickets. Johnson Charles played a brilliant century innings of 118 runs. Johnson Charles completed his century in just 39 balls. He also broke Chris Gayle’s record of 47 balls for the fastest century in T20Is for the West Indies. Hit 22 sixes in the West Indies innings. Windies equaled the record of most sixes in an innings by a team. Afghanistan had hit 22 sixes against Ireland in 2019.

Chasing the target of 259 runs for the victory, the openers of the South African team got off to a blistering start. Due to which the South African team won the match with 7 balls remaining in the match. South Africa scored 102 runs in the first six overs without losing any wicket. This is the biggest score of any team in Powerplay in International T20.

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