5/5 is a stat Harmanpreet Kaur and Smriti Mandhana will likely not forget, for very different reasons, when they look back at this inaugural Women's Premier League season.
WPL 2023
Royal Challengers out to sign off with a big scalp
It's been a season of contrasts for Smriti Mandhana and Harmanpreet Kaur. © BCCI
Harmanpreet's Mumbai Indians went on an early rampage, establishing themselves as the team to beat in the competition, while the Mandhana-led Royal Challengers Bangalore just couldn't find a way to collect their first points. And then, just after the halfway point, the fortunes reversed for both. RCB put in two clinical performances for a late whiff of playoffs qualification while MI, after becoming the first to progress to the knockouts, fumbled. They now have to return to the field in under 24 hours for a must-win game in the race for the top spot.
To stay in the hunt for a direct entry in the WPL 2023 final, that seemed all but guaranteed a week ago, Mumbai will seek to upstage an on-the-up RCB by as significant a margin as possible in the first game of Tuesday's double-header before gluing in to the
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