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WPL 2025: How Harmanpreet Kaur with her best season of franchise cricket inspired Mumbai Indians to title | Cricket News

WPL 2025: How Harmanpreet Kaur with her best season of franchise cricket inspired Mumbai Indians to title | Cricket News

With a sheepish grin, Royal Challengers Bengaluru’s Ellyse Perry reflected on her knock of 49* off 38 balls, out of a total of 199, in her side’s victory over Mumbai Indians in a league game. “Some of the cameos you see… like the way Richa Ghosh (36 off 22) and Georgia Wareham (31* off 10) batted in the end. Those contributions are probably way more impactful sometimes than just pure output of runs,” she told the broadcasters. It not only reflected the Aussie superstar’s mentality but also the importance of playing attacking cricket and posting an influential rather than a chunky knock. In a way, it summed up how Harmanpreet Kaur has batted for Mumbai Indians this season, as her side emerged as champions on Saturday in Mumbai for the second time in three seasons of the WPL, defeating Delhi Capitals in a thriller. Harmanpreet’s tally of runs and average over three seasons of the Women’s Premier League read like this. In 2023, 281 runs at 40.14; in 2024, 268 runs at 53.80, and in …