WPL 2025: "The target was only 150. Should have got it", says Sourav Ganguly

Former India menrsquos captain Sourav Ganguly was upset while standing by the boundary line awaiting the final presentation to begin following Delhi Capitalsrsquo eightrun defeat to Mumbai Indians in the Womenrsquos Premier League title clash at the Brabourne Stadium on Saturday nightAn infamous hattrickThree finals in three WPL editions and DC have achieved an infamous hattrick finishing second best to MI in 2023 and 2025 and to Royal Challengers Bangalore in 2024 ldquoThree in a row The target was only 150 We should have got itrdquo Ganguly Director of Cricket of JSW Group that coowns DC told midday sounding dejected and still ruing at the opportunity lost to be thirdtime lucky ldquoWe have chased twice before against Mumbai Indians this season If you gave them MI the 150run target theyrsquod have got itrdquo he saidSourav GangulyIt was a match DC ought to have won DC head coach Jonathan Batty said his team did well to restrict MI to 149 and the target was achievable He told the media postmatch ldquoWersquove had three great seasons to finish top of the table three years running Wersquove played some amazing cricket Everyonersquos hurting a huge amount at the moment and I think 99 per cent of the time yoursquod back yourself to chase 150 on that wicketAlso ReadJockey P Trevor brilliant on Sunday with Fynbos Kingda Ka Mahali threeyearold fillyldquoMaybe the occasion of the final just got to the players Full credit to Mumbai Indians for the way they bowled to defend that total They executed their skills really really well made it really hard for us as we never got ahead of the chase We were in the game the whole way through and just couldnrsquot quite get over the line at the endrdquoJonathan BattyThe Englishman denied that the players had any mental block in the finals losing three in a row ldquoYou look at how we performed with the ball and in the field in that first half to keep them to 149 Again on that wicket yoursquove seen whatrsquos happened through the week with the elimination and the other games here We were expecting probably 180 to be a par score so we were really really pleased with that So the players were very much up for it I donrsquot think it was a mental block at all but itrsquos just full credit to the opposition They outplayed us and quite rightly deserve to winrdquo Batty saidTense final momentsTriumphant MI head coach Charlotte Edwards said there were some tense moments when Marizanne Kapp kept DC in the hunt with her partnership with Niki Prasad for the seventh wicket worth 40 in 29 balls That brought down the required runrate to within reach as DC needed 29 in 18 deliveries Kapp however fell to a catch in the deep in the 18th over bowled by Natalie SciverBruntEdwards said ldquoI always felt there was another turn in the game at that point but Marizanne played brilliantly and shersquos won many finals herself certainly two against me in The Hundred 2021 and 2022 So I was a bit wary but when Nat SciverBrunt has the ball in her hand anything can happen That Kapprsquos was a crucial wicket caught at deep midoff You still donrsquot think the gamersquos won Every team in this tournament bat very deep and can hit sixes right to the very end We knew we were in for a tough couple of overs there and thankfully we managed to see it through and get our second WPL titlerdquo