Alice Capsey: England batter eyes WPL final glory to go with back-to-back Hundred tournament wins | Cricket News

England batter Alice Capsey is eyeing a 3rd massive tournament success in her fledgling cricketing profession as she prepares for Sunday’s inaugural Women’s Premier League final.

The 18-year-old Capsey first burst onto the scene two years’ in the past as a part of the Oval Invincibles group which received the primary girls’s version of The Hundred. They then retained their title final summer time, and Capsey is now in search of one other winner’s medal with the Delhi Capitals within the WPL.

Capsey was influential in seeing the Capitals into Sunday’s final, the place they are going to face the Mumbai Indians, as she took 3-26 with her off-spin and cracked 34 from 31 balls in a win over UP Warriorz earlier within the week that clinched their spot.

“I’ve been very fortunate to be a part of some pretty outstanding teams,” Capsey informed Sky Sports.

“The two groups I’ve been part of have had numerous completely different characters, numerous completely different match-winners, who’ve all stood up at completely different instances. That’s what makes an incredible group.

“You cannot simply depend on one or two gamers. And that is positively the case right here at Delhi.

“You may record each single participant. They’ve all carried out one thing all through this competitors to get us right into a match-winning place.

“It’s brilliant to be part of those teams. The experience and wealth of knowledge in the changing room is amazing.”

Capsey additionally attributed the management of Australia and Capitals captain, Meg Lanning, in addition to their head coach, Jonathan Batty – who led the Invincibles to their Hundred wins – as key to Delhi’s success.

“I think we’ve gelled really well,” Capsey stated. “It’s such a cliché; we’ve spent a lot of time together now, but even at the beginning, it was just a great team environment.

“Hats off to JB and Meg for setting that up and bringing us all collectively.

“We’ve stayed pretty level-headed. I think that’s a really crucial thing; that is something Meg has done really well, keeping us all level and on the right track.”

The Capitals bought off to a rip-roaring begin to the tournament, topping 200 with the bat of their opening two wins over Royal Challengers Bangalore and the Warriorz, earlier than they suffered an eight-wicket hammering by the hands of Mumbai, who received all of their first 5 video games.

Delhi would lose solely as soon as extra from their final 5 video games, nevertheless – to the Gujarat Titans – which included a revenge, nine-wicket win over Mumbai of their second assembly as they went straight via to the final.

With the Indians beating the Warriorz in Friday’s eliminator to arrange one other showdown between the 2 sides in Sunday’s final, Capsey spoke of the strengths of their opponents.

“Mumbai flew out the blocks and looked pretty much unbeatable,” she stated. “They’ve got X-factor players in Nat Sciver-Brunt, Harmanpreet Kaur, but the thing that stands out for me is their consistency and the experience within their team.

“Harmanpreet’s an excellent captain. She has managed to rally the group rather well. They look a extremely well-balanced facet, with their spinners and in addition the X-factor tempo of Issy Wong.

“Their record over the group stage – obviously they didn’t have the best end to it – the cricket they were playing at the beginning was really good.

“They bought themselves right into a place to qualify [for the playoffs] sooner than another group. That simply exhibits the standard they have.

“It’s two very different roads to the final. But it’s about peaking at the right time.

“Hopefully we have carried out that. We’ve bought another sport and hopefully we win it. That can be nice.”

Watch the WPL final between the Mumbai Indians and Delhi Capitals, dwell on Sky Sports Cricket and Main Event from 2.50pm on Sunday.