With stand-in skipper of Mumbai Indians Suryakumar Yadav bought his kind again throughout the TATA IPL 2023 match towards Kolkata Knight Riders on 16 April, there was one thing uncommon concerning the recreation.
It isn’t concerning the pitch or any controversy, but it surely was concerning the jersey that MI gamers wore for the match. For the match, MI’s gamers donned the jerseys of their Ladies’s staff because it was part of the Mumbai franchise’s initiative Training and Sports activities for All (ESA) Day.
The MI males’s gamers donned the particular jerseys to advertise the thought of sports activities as a profession possibility for women within the nation.
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Within the inaugural WPL final month, Harmanpeet Kaur-led MI’s ladies’s staff gained the trophy after beating Delhi Capitals within the ultimate.
MI males’s staff participant Ishan Kisha, forward of the match, was seen in a video unboxing the brand new jersey and had expressed pleasure to participate within the initiative.
Here is the Instagram publish:
To make the initiative attain most folks, MI additionally had 19,000 younger ladies from completely different NGOs within the Wankhede stadium on Sunday.
In the meantime, Mumbai Indians defeated the company (KKR) by 5 wickets with 14 deliveries to spare.
With this, Mumbai registered their second win within the TATA IPL 2023, having 2 wins and2 losses. Whereas, KKR misplaced three matches and gained two of them this season.
Batting first, KKR scored an enormous 185/6 runs in 20 overs, which MI chased in simply 17.4 over after shedding 5 wickets.