In the first two seasons, despite having Jasia Akhter and Laura Harris, they could not find the right team to finish the tickets. They lacked lower -order fire power with the Wicktkeeper Taniya Bhatia batting only five times in 18 games in the first two seasons. She hit the number 11 in the WPL 2024 final. But with this time, with the Wicktkeeper of Scotland Sarah Bryce in the team, DC could present five players abroad. Despite being mainly a first -order bat, a 150 attack rate while hitting at number 7 towards a job well done.
That is why this defeat would stink more from DC. They found a weak link, filled the space and still ended in the same place. Such was the depth that the internationals of India Arundhati Reddy and Radha Yadav appeared in only four and two games respectively. But Batty wasn’t reading much and admitted that my played better on another important night.
“The players were prepared, they were fine and I think there was not a mental block at all. But it is just a complete loan for the opposition, they beat us and deserved to win the game”
Jonathan Batty
“It will take time to think about what went wrong,” Batty said. “Two high quality teams face face to face and it was such a tight game. Losing for eight races, which are two limits, lost it by two balls at the end. That game can go anyway from there. I do not think there is a common denominator. You always have a side that wins and one side that loses, and we have been on the side of the two times unfortunately.
“To finish the top of the table for three years, we have played an incredible cricket. You do not overcome the line until [you win] The final. All are hurting a lot at this time. I think that 99% of the time supports yourself to pursue 150 in that wickt there. Finals of great games, maybe the occasion came to the players. “
Twice DC chose to establish a goal in the finals, twice they collapsed to a score below the torque. Then, Meg Lanning doubted little when choosing to pursue after a third final entry. In WPL 2025, the teams hit first, Rocío or no dew, they had won the three games before the final at the Brabourne Stadium. A fresh surface was in use for the final with almost equidistant square limits. None of that may care about Lanning.
“I don’t think it’s a mental block at all,” Batty said. “You look how we act with the ball and in the field in the first half to keep them 149 in that wickt. You see what happened during the week, with the eliminator and the other games here, we expected that it was probably 180 to be a torque score, so we were really satisfied with that. The players were up to them, they were fine and we thought there was no mental block in everything. That time went out and what we left to win the outheld, and what we stop winning, and what we stop winning, and leave it.
“Pursuing 150, you expect the batting unit to play a positive and aggressive cricket, and you should, nine out of ten times, win that game with a little gallop. I think 180 went to the time in that Wickt. Full credit for the Mumbai Indians, they never let us get ahead of the execution rate.”
Kapp launched an opening spell that caused Lanning’s release to seem correct. It seemed that a lateral batting first in a WPL final would end with a low score again. Harmanpreet Kaur’s overs media assault was threatening, but the score did not go beyond DC at any stage. And although Mumbai scored 25 of the last two overs, the figures of 2 by 37 in death were not a stain in the DC bowling.
“I thought Harmanpreet took us the attack,” Batty said. “I thought we had played quite well and she took some risks and went out with his, backed up to do so. When leaving the power game, we were in charge of the game. There will always be an association at some point. Nat Sciver-Brunt and Harmanpreet Kaur, the Pivotal Association, was the one that really was a good effort. Our nerve fantastically through that association.”
It was a case of being so close but until now once again for DC. Batty’s humor can relieve his pain so much.
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