Mumbai Indians Women vs Delhi Capitals Women Head to Head Records - WPL 2024, Match 1

Mumbai Indians Women and Delhi Capitals Women are set to thrill fans in the WPL 2024 opener. The opening game of WPL 2024 will take place on Friday, February 23 at M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru.

Mumbai Indians Women will eye to defend their title as they are the defending champions of WPL 2024. On the other hand, Delhi Capitals Women will aim to clinch the trophy this time and grab the champions title this season. DC Women are the runners-up of the last edition.

Both teams will be led by the same skippers in WPL 2024. Harmanpreet Kaur will lead MI Women in the 2024 season once again. Meg Lanning has been retained by the DC franchise as their skipper for another season. Below we take a glance at Mumbai Indians Women vs Delhi Capitals Women’s head-to-head records ahead of the WPL 2024 opener.

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Mumbai Indians Women vs Delhi Capitals Women Head to Head Records – WPL 2024, Match 1

Mumbai Indians Women vs Delhi Capitals: Key Statistics

The Women’s Premier League has only witnessed one season. In the previous season, both teams played 3 games with each other. Mumbai Indians Women won two games while DC Women won 1 match. All three games were low-scoring ones. Both teams have never faced each other at M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in the past.

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Mumbai Indians Women vs Delhi Capitals: Recent 5 Encounters

Both teams have not played 5 games against each other so far. They faced each other in 3 matches last season. MI Women crushed DC Women by 8 wickets and 7 wickets in two clashes. DC Women won by 9 wickets in one of the games. The chasing team won the match in all the three games.

Key moments and stand-out performances

According to MI Women vs DC Women head-to-head records in WPL, DC skipper Meg Lanning has mustered the most 110 runs. Lanning also slammed the top knock of 43 runs last season. Among bowlers, Jess Johnson picked the most 3 wickets across 3 games. Marizapp Kapp holds the record for the best bowling show with 2 wickets for 13 runs.

Talking about MI Women, their best batter against DC Women is Natalie Sciver with 83 runs across 3 games. She also shattered an unbeaten 60 runs in one game. Hayley Matthews has grabbed the most 7 wickets against DC Women. Issy Wong and Hayley Matthews hunted 3-wicket hauls on two occasions last season.

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Trends and Patterns

If we take a glance at all three games between MI Women and DC Women, the team bowling first has won the match. The chasing team has also won the encounter with ease. Hence, both teams would like to bowl first if they win the toss. M. Chinnaswamy Stadium will host the opening match and it supports batters. Hence, the chasing team will once again have an advantage in the WPL 2024 opening game.

Conclusion

According to MI Women vs DC Women head-to-head stats in the Women’s Premier League, we can conclude that teams batting second is likely to win the match. The team batting first always finished on the losing end in all the previous three clashes between both sides.

So far, MI’s Natalie Sciver is the only batter to score a half-century during clashes between both sides. Notably, MI Women enjoyed the home advantage last season. However, in WPL 2024, the opening match takes place at a neutral venue.