WPL 2024: Harmanpreet Kaur’s return to form, S Sajana’s last-ball six lights up opening night as MI beat DC in thriller | Cricket News
The inaugural day of the second edition of the Women’s Premier League (WPL) was as narrative-rich as it gets. In a game that went down to the wire, there a first-ball six from a league debutant to round out the tricky chase for the Mumbai Indians. But the fact that the driver of the run chase was their skipper, Harmanpreet Kaur, came as much-needed relief for a batter whose barren run had become a cause for concern. In a game that saw momentum ebb from one side to the other at several different junctures, Sajana Sajeevan’s heave over long on from the last ball, as Mumbai needed 5 runs to win, will be the memorable moment of the match. But it was the culmination of a base set up by half-centuries from Yastika Bhatia and Harmanpreet, whose calm, well-paced 34-ball 55 allowed the chase to never be out of reach for her side. The batting form of the Indian captain had been a talking point from India’s recent bumper home season. 146 runs in nine …