When the chips were down, Harmanpreet Kaur rose to the occasion to lead Mumbai Indians to their second Women’s Premier League (WPL) title at the Brabourne Stadium on Saturday.

Thanks to Player of the Final Kaur’s brilliant 66 (44b, 9x4, 2x6) and the 89-run third-wicket stand with Natalie Sciver-Brunt (30, 28b, 4x4), and later by their medium-pacers Shabnim Ismail (1-15), Sciver-Brunt (3-30) and leg-spinner Amelia Kerr (2-25), Mumbai Indians defeated Delhi Capitals by eight runs to regain the crown.
In front of the packed house and some of the MI Indian Premier League team members on Saturday evening, MI posted the highest total of the three WPL finals, 149-7. Later, they contained DC to 141-9.