New Delhi . WPL 2026 couldn’t have started better than this. The first match of the season between Mumbai Indians and Royal Challengers Bangalore was played at the DY Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai. In this match, RCB’s Nadine de Klerk gave an astonishing performance and snatched the victory from MI. There was a time when half of the RCB team had returned to the pavilion on the score of 67, then De Klerk played an unbeaten inning of 63 runs on 44 balls to give the team victory. The center of attraction of De Klerk’s innings was the last over, when RCB needed 20 runs to win, despite not scoring even 1 run on the first two balls, De Klerk led RCB to victory. Seeing her explosive batting, the fans were reminded of the Women’s World Cup India vs South Africa match.
Nadine De Klerk refreshes Harmanpreet Kaur’s wound
Nadine de Klerk has also given a bitter sip to Harmanpreet Kaur in the Women’s World Cup before the WPL. He had executed amazing runs against India, that defeat broke the hearts of crores of Indian fans including Harmanpreet Kaur. Nadine de Klerk’s performance was excellent throughout the World Cup. In the match against India, he came at number 8 and played a brilliant inning of 84 runs in 54 balls.
In that match, India batted first and put 251 runs on the board. Chasing this score, South Africa had lost 5 wickets at the score of 81. Then it seemed that India could easily win this match, but then Nadine de Klerk played such a wonderful inning that broke the hearts of millions of Indian fans. Harmanpreet Kaur could not digest the defeat even at that time.
How was MI vs RCB first match?
After losing the toss and opting to bat first, Mumbai Indians managed to score 154 runs on the board at the loss of 6 wickets in the stipulated 20 overs. There was a time when MI had lost 4 wickets at the score of 67. Then Nicola Carey scored 40 runs and Sajeevan Sajna played an inning of 45 runs to take Mumbai to this score. Nadine de Klerk took maximum 4 wickets.
While chasing the target of 155, Grace Harris (25 runs from 12 balls) and Smriti Mandhana (18 runs) gave a stormy start to RCB, but neither of them could play a big innings. After the openers were out, the middle order also disappointed. At one time RCB’s score was 40 runs without any wicket in 3.4 overs, then suddenly half the team was in the pavilion at the score of 65 in 7.4 overs.
After this, Nadine de Klerk took up the responsibility of scoring runs and gave RCB victory in the last over by playing a explosive inning of 63 runs in 44 balls. Nadine de Klerk scored 18 runs in the last over. He was awarded the Player of the Match award.
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