Mumbai Indians Women Vs Delhi Capitals Women: WPL 2025 Match 2 Full Preview

After the first high-scoring cricket match between Gujarat Giants Women and Royal Challengers Bangalore Women, it’s time for the second match of the Women’s Premier League (WPL) 2025. The second match is Mumbai Indians Women Vs Delhi Capitals Women and will take place at the Reliance Stadium in Vadodara on the 15^th of February. Both teams are full of talented players, so let’s analyze in this report who may perform better on the basis of their squads and past performances.

Mumbai Indians Women Vs Delhi Capitals Women: Team Previews and Analysis

Mumbai Indians Women

In the last season of WPL 2024, Mumbai Indians Women were knocked out by Royal Challengers Bangalore Women (the defending champion of WPL 2024) in the first eliminator match of WPL 2024. Under the leadership of Harmanpreet Kaur, Mumbai Indians Women had performed really well before getting eliminated by RCB Women.

The upper order of Mumbai India women looks pretty strong with an experienced batting lineup including Hayley Matthews, Yastika Bhatia, and G Kamalini, along with the skipper Harmanpreet Kaur, who adds depth to this batting lineup.

They have good all-rounders on the team who can contribute to both the batting and bowling departments as needed. All-rounders like Nat Sciver-Brunt and Amelia Kerr can provide the required stability to the team’s performance with bat and ball.

They have a good bowling lineup in both the fast and spin bowling departments. Shabnim Ismail will lead the pace attack, as Shabnim can consistently hit good spots on the pitch with her bowling line and length.

Parunika Sisodia and Jintimani Kalita will be there to take care of the spin bowling department with their spin bowling skills.

Delhi Capitals Women

Delhi Capitals Women has one of the fast run scorers from the Indian Women’s Cricket Team ‘Shefali Verma’ who will be opening the innings along with the experienced Jemimah Rodrigues.

In the middle order, Delhi Capitals Women has good options for big-hitting all-rounders like Capsey and Sutherland. These two all-rounders can perform well in finishing up the innings with good strike rates and take wickets at crucial times.

Arundhati Reddy and Titas Sadhu are two fast bowling options that Delhi Capitals Women have on their side; these two will take care of the fast bowling department and can stop the opposition from scoring quick runs against them and getting initial breakthroughs.

The spin department of Delhi Capitals Women has smart bowlers like Jonassen and Radha Yadav, who can beat batsmen with their spin and get breakthroughs at the initial stages against Mumbai Indians Women’s batting.

Past performances between Mumbai Indians Women and Delhi Capitals Women in the WPL

Mumbai Indians Women = Win 3
Delhi Capitals Women = Win 2
Total Matches = 5

Date	Match Details	Winner
March 9, 2023	Mumbai Won by 8 wickets with 30 balls remaining.	Mumbai Indians Women
March 20, 2023	Delhi dominatingly got the victory by 9 wickets with 66 balls to spare.	Delhi Capitals Women
March 26, 2023	Mumbai won by 7 wickets and just 3 balls left in the innings.	Mumbai Indians Women
February 23, 2024	Mumbai clinched a thrilling match at the end, winning it by 4 wickets on the final ball of that match.	Mumbai Indians Women
March 5, 2024	DC-W won it by 29 runs.	Delhi Capitals Women

Pitch Report of Reliance Stadium, Vadodara

Reliance Stadium is known for its batting-friendly wicket at the initial stage of the game and it also helps fast bowlers initially if fast bowlers can maintain good line and length to bowl, but as the game proceeds, the pitch will become helpful for spin bowlers as the surface will become rough and spinners will start getting turns, which may surprise batsmen. This pitch has already witnessed high-scoring matches in the past.

It clearly indicates that this pitch is good for batting, but if bowlers want to make this game a low-scoring one, then bowlers will need to be very disciplined with the line and length they will bowl. In between the 11th and 14th over of the first innings, there will be high chances for spin bowlers to get a couple of wickets, and then during the 16th to 19th over, fast bowlers can also perform better.

As the average first innings score on this pitch is 118, it is a very good sign for batters. If batters can watch the ball properly and apply their basic cricketing skills while batting without trying too many extra things, then batsmen can score good runs out here.

Toss Factor!

This pitch will be really good for batting first and then to defend the target. But if the pitch won’t have too many cracks before the game starts, then it will be helpful to score in the second innings while getting benefit of the due factor as this is a winter season, and once the ball gets wet, it will become really easy to bat in the later part of the game.

Probable Playing XI for MUM-W vs DEL-W

Mumbai Indians Women (Probable XI): 
1. Yastika Bhatia (wk) 
2. Hayley Matthews 
3. Harmanpreet Kaur (c) 
4. Amandeep Kaur 
5. Amelia Kerr 
6. Nat Sciver-Brunt 
7. G Kamalini 
8. Akshita Maheswari 
9. Shabnim Ismail 
10. Jintimani Kalita 
11. Pooja Vastrakar 

Delhi Capitals Women (Probable XI): 
1. Meg Lanning (c) 
2. Shafali Verma 
3. Jemimah Rodrigues 
4. Annabel Sutherland 
5. Alice Capsey 
6. Jess Jonassen 
7. Minnu Mani 
8. Taniya Bhatia (wk) 
9. Arundhati Reddy 
10. Radha Yadav 
11. Titas Sadhu

Key Players for Mumbai Indians Women vs Delhi Capitals Women 15^th Feb 2025.

Mumbai Indians Women:

1. Hayley Matthews
2. Harmanpreet Kaur
3. Amelia Kerr
4. Nat Sciver-Brunt
5. G Kamalini

Delhi Capitals Women:

1. Meg Lanning
2. Shafali Verma
3. Jemimah Rodrigues
4. Annabel Sutherland
5. Alice Capsey

Match Details and Live Streaming

Information	Details
Date & Time	February 15, 7:30 PM IST
Venue	Reliance Stadium, Vadodara
Live Broadcast & Streaming	Disney+ Hotstar, Star Sports Network, Sports 18 Khel

Conclusion

Even though Mumbai Indians Women is looking forward to this match, it won’t be really easy to defeat Delhi Capitals Women because DC-W has always competed really well against MI-W in all five matches played between these two teams in the past. And just seeing the total number of victories and predicting that MI-W will win, this won’t be really smart to say if you are a really good cricketing fan. We will have to wait and see for the rest.