Harmanpreet Kaur hails Meg Lanning, Shafali Verma forward of WPL 2023 Final: DC has one of the best opening mixture

Mumbai Indians captain Harmanpreet Kaur has showered reward on Delhi Capitals openers Meg Lanning and Shafali Verma, saying they’ve one of the best opening mixture within the Women’s Premier League. MI is all set to lock horns with DC for the 2023 WPL title on the Brabourne Stadium on March 26.

Mumbai,UPDATED: Mar 25, 2023 23:22 IST

Harmanpreet heaps reward on Lanning, Shafali (PTI)

By India Today Web Desk: Mumbai Indians captain Harmanpreet Kaur has showered reward on Delhi Capitals openers Meg Lanning and Shafali Verma, saying they’ve one of the best opening mixture within the Women’s Premier League. MI is all set to lock horns with DC for the 2023 WPL title on the Brabourne Stadium on March 26.

Speaking forward of the ultimate, Harmanpreet mentioned DC has one of the best opening mixture within the match, including that they now how harmful they are often since they did nicely in opposition to them within the group-stage. Lanning is at present the top-scorer of the match with 310 runs in eight matches, whereas Shafali has amassed 241 runs at an unimaginable strike fee of 182.57.

“They have the best combination in the whole tournament and they also did well against us in the last game. We know what they can do and how dangerous they can be. We have our plans and hopefully we are able to execute them,” mentioned Harmanpreet.

Speaking about leaders within the Mumbai Indians aspect, Harmanpreet mentioned their crew has nationwide captains and vice-captains, which makes for an important crew surroundings. MI opener Hayley Matthews is the captain of West Indies, Harmanpreet herself is the Indian skipper, whereas Natalie Sciver-Brunt is the vice-captain of England.

“We have many leaders in the camp, people who have captained their team and also been vice-captains. Some of the Indian players like Amanjot (Kaur) did well in South Africa. This makes for a great team environment,” Harmanpreet added.

Harmanpreet additionally touched upon the affect of WPL on Indian cricket, saying we weill begin seeing the leads to two or three years, and is assured that Indian girls’s cricket shall be at par with Australia.

“WBBL performed an enormous position in improvement of cricket of their nation and WPL can be going to have a similar position for our cricket. The home gamers are going to get lots of alternatives, many ladies have accomplished nicely as we have now seen. We will begin seeing the leads to 2-3 years. I’m assured that Indian expertise can be going to do nicely like Australia are doing,” mentioned Harmanpreet.

Edited By:

Rounaq Sehrawat

Published On:

Mar 25, 2023