 A top day of cricket for the West Indies women's captain Haley Mathews, the star player falling for a duck after conceding 21 runs in two wicketless overs. However, her Mumbai Indians team still came out victorious, beating the Delhi Capitals by six wickets in a last ball thriller. To start the 2024 edition of the women's Premier League, India's female T20 franchise which is live daily on Sportsmax. The Delhi Capitals batted first and posted 171 for five, Alis capses 75 and Jameema Rodriks 42, led the scoring against Natali Shivapbrant, 2 for 33 and Amida Kaur with 2 for 43. Mumbai Indians got to their target over the last ball reaching 173 for six. Yastika Bhatia, top scorer with 57, captain Harman Kree Kaur produced a player of the match 55 from 34 deliveries to propel her team across the line. Let's hear from both camps now. Nice to be on the right side there and for SS to go out there and hit a six first ball was unbelievable. First game for Mumbai so pretty awesome feeling for the team and for her and just you know cricket it can go either way and it's just we're on the right side tonight. All in all it was a good wicket fast outfield with a short boundary so it was about giving us a chance and batting as deep as possible and I thought we did that well and set up a platform with Yastika up top and then Harman so we kind of thought the back end if we can go at 10s with wickets and hands we give ourselves a chance. Yeah Mumbai starting like the champions they are they were threatened they were tested and they came out on top the WPL continuing on Saturday on Sportsmax with Royal Challengers Bangalore and they have this early game against the Warriors starting at 9 o'clock to make a time 10 o'clock Eastern Caribbean time and you can watch on Sportsmax cricket on the app as well hurry over to download the Sportsmax app today it's pretty easy to do that and I'm pretty sure most of our viewers have already downloaded the Sportsmax app but what a way to start the WPL Mariah you were waiting all week for the start and I guess you were satisfied with what you got this morning. Yeah from the opening ceremony which was live on Sportsmax right until the last ball because it started with a lot of Bollywood stars they had like dancing performances the king of Bollywood Shahrukh Khan somebody I grew up watching and I still watch his movies up to now it reminds me of home whenever I feel homesick he performed and he also did the introduction with all the girls so they were seen in this light as queens coming on the stage and they were he was speaking about queens from Queendom and they all came on Harman pre-core came on with the trophy from last year for me it was just a beautiful opening event and if that was beauty then the match itself I can't find words to describe because Delhi capitals of course lost the toss so they were put into bat we had the top performances from Alice Capsi who got 75 from 53 balls and Jamai Ma Rodriguez with that 42 and initially I was a bit worried Lance because I felt as if this call would be difficult for Mumbai Indians to chase down and it started to look like that coming down to the end of the batting performances by Mumbai Indians have to say kudos to Shabnam Ishmael that first wicket that she got one for one I did say at the start of the tournament that she is one of my favorite bowlers so she went on there with a lot of confidence happiness excitement and she was able to get that wicket and just start the Mumbai Indians and a really really positive light it came down to the end where of course they needed to get five runs it was five runs four runs and that one in that last over and of course that six from Sanjana Ricardo was just top-class and for me that's why Mumbai Indians are defending champions because they are so good at what they do it's unfortunate that we didn't get any runs from our skipper Haley Matthews but that's okay it's just one game and we have a lot more games to go and I know Haley will of course reflect on that dismissal today and come back stronger yeah I think I thoroughly enjoy the cricket match right and I think the quality of it was good as well as Mariah pointed out disappointing for Haley Matthews that she didn't get away I thought had a horrible match actually had a miss field out at the extra cover position two overs for 21 runs one going for 19 and then out second ball without scoring so a really difficult day for the West Indies captain Mumbai Indians also not very good in the field at Lansing Mariah put down I think at least three chances and they were just not as clinical with their performance out in the field and with the early dismissal of Matthews not starting well with the back either but they were able to pull it together the captain arm and pre-core was really good showing her absolute quality with that 55 from 34 deliveries and and played some really world-class cricket shots it was especially impressed with but here though because I thought her short making was so Indian if I can say that so much class in the way she played she drove the ball beautifully through the offside as well early in the innings and if she needed to go over the top she did that with some level of ease so it was a very good cricket match and if this is what we can expect from the women's Premier League then I think we're in for quite a tournament yeah I'm hoping that Haley Matthews is non-firing today had nothing to do with Sportsmax zone having her up well after midnight a couple of nights ago I'm sure it doesn't have anything I'm not thinking so but I'm just putting it out there why did you put it out there I don't know why Lansing put something like that out there any at all but you know it's the first match of the tournament this is not a bad delivery so the liver that is just moving away from her she didn't get to the pitch of the ball you're chasing 174 that's the way Haley plays she likes to go hard early a lot of times it comes off sometimes it doesn't and it didn't today I must admit though that I was a little bit surprised that Matthews did not ball in the power play you're talking about the MVP of the last tournament she took 16 wickets leading wicket taking last year and then for the first match in this campaign I thought they would have tried to get her in the game early she did not ball in the power play I found that extremely surprising and sometimes I'm not using this as an excuse Lansing right but sometimes as a cricketer when you are accustomed to being involved in what is happening early and you have to sit out there in the field well not necessarily sit there you know what I'm talking about where you're not active with the ball when you're accustomed to doing that sometimes you can get a little cold and sometimes you can get I want to say demotivated and I'm not using it as an excuse but it was a surprise to me that she did not ball in the power play any at all well as Mariah pointed out earlier on it's only the first game and Haley is a quality player we saw her performances in the WPL last year which contributed significantly to the Mumbai Indians winning and she has that resilience about her and I fully expect her to rebound and play much better in the coming games for sure I actually think this will motivate her the fact that she didn't get off to any runs today I think she's going to sit back she's going to reflect and we're going to expect some big scores from her remember there's match to tomorrow lands I can't wait for tomorrow as well because ours to be a couple of my favorite players to especially Sri Lanka Patel yes so I want to see how that one goes that's ten o'clock Eastern Caribbean time nine o'clock in Jamaica match two in the WPL and it's only on the Sportsmax app that Sportsmax cricket you can't see those match well the weekends matches Saturday and Sunday on Sportsmax you have to go to the Sportsmax app and watch it on Sportsmax cricket