MI vs DC LIVE Cricket Score, WPL 2026: Mumbai Indians look to bounce back from opening day defeat

WPL 2026, MI vs DC Live Cricket Score: Mumbai Indians will be hoping to bounce back after Friday's defeat.

WPL 2026, MI vs DC Live Cricket Score Updates: Having slumped to a last-ball defeat against the Royal Challengers Bengaluru on the opening night of the Women’s Premier League, the defending champions Mumbai Indians will hope to bounce back against the Delhi Capitals on Saturday at the DY Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai.

Mumbai will come into the game with plenty of concerns: their top order buckled pretty easily and only a late innings flourish from Sajana Sajeevan and Nicola Carey. In the field too, the Mumbai side were clumsy — in fact, in the penultimate over, they gave RCB’s Nadine de Klerk three reprieves in the span of four balls before the South African dragged RCB to victory in the final over.

Delhi, meanwhile, will be playing in the WPL for the first time this season. The side will be playing under a new captain in the form of Jemimah Rodrigues.

Exactly 3 months ago, India skipper Harmanpreet Kaur had to witness South Africa’s Nadine de Klerk take the match away from her Indian team with a blistering 84 runs in the Women’s World Cup group stage. That was on October 9. On Friday, i.e. on January 9, Harman would again stand helplessly, this time as the Mumbai Indians captain, as de Klerk dragged Royal Challengers Bengaluru out of the mire and helped them win by 3 wickets.

“Well, we know that she (de Klerk) has the capacity to score whatever runs are needed in the last over. But yeah, I think we just didn’t bowl one good ball, which was needed in the last over. Sometimes this happens. We gave her two or three chances and when you keep giving a batter chances, they always come back with an even stronger mindset. So yeah, we can’t say the last over didn’t go our way – we got a few chances, but we missed them,” Harman said after the match.

On what they could have done differently, Kaur reiterated that one good ball in the last over would have done the trick.

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