WPL 2023 Final: The final match of the Women’s Premier League was played between Delhi Capitals and Mumbai Indians on 26 March. In this match, Mumbai defeated Delhi by 7 wickets in the last over and won the first season of the women’s IPL. After the end of the first women’s IPL, there is a question in the mind of most people that how much is the prize money of the winning team. If you have the same question in your mind, then let us tell you about the prize money of the winner, runner-up as well as the players who won the award by performing well in this match.
Prize money of women’s IPL
The winning team of Women’s Premier League 2023 will be given a reward of Rs 6 crore. At the same time, the runner-up team that loses in the final match will be given prime money of Rs 3 crore. Apart from these, the team UP Warriors, which got eliminated after losing in the Eliminator, will also be given a prize money of Rs 1 crore. According to media reports, the fourth and fifth place team Royal Challengers Bangalore and Gujarat Giants team will not get anything.
Who got which award
< p>Powerful Striker of the Match – Radha Yadav, Delhi Capitals, trophy and Rs 1 lakh
Player of the Match – Nat Seaver-Brunt, Mumbai Indians, trophy and Rs 2.5 lakh
Powerful Striker of the Season – Sophie Devine, RCB, trophy and Rs 5 lakh
Emerging Player Player of the Season – Yastika Bhatia – Trophy and Rs 5 lakh
Fairplay Award – Mumbai Indians and Delhi Capitals
Catches of the Season – Harmanpreet Kaur, Mumbai Indians, trophy and Rs 5 lakh
Most wickets, Purple Cap – Hayley Mathews, Mumbai Indians – trophy and Rs 5 lakh Rs
Most runs, Orange Cap – Meg Lanning, Delhi Capitals – Trophy and Rs 5 lakh
Most Valuable Player of the Year Season – Hayley Mathews, Mumbai Indians – Trophy and Rs 5 lakh
How was the match
Played at Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai In this match, Delhi Capitals decided to bat first after winning the toss, but the bowlers of Mumbai Indians ruined all their plans. Issy Wong, who took a hat-trick wicket in the Eliminator match, sent two dangerous Delhi batsmen Shefali Verma and Alice Capsey to the pavilion in her first over of this match.
Jemima followed by 35 runs. Rodrigues also got out after scoring only 9 runs. In this way, the pressure kept increasing on Delhi but in the end, Shikha Pandey scored an unbeaten 27 runs in 17 balls to bring her team to 131 runs in 9 overs in 20 overs.
Mumbai in batting The start was also not good and they lost their first two wickets for just 23 runs, but after that Nat Siever-Brunt and captain Harmanpreet Kaur gradually took the innings forward and then the star of the eliminator match Nat Siever-Brunt An unbeaten 60 off 55 balls made Mumbai Indians the first winners of the Women’s Premier League.
