It's Eliminator time. Much like the 2023 season, we've finished second in the league stage. We know how that ended. And now, as we build up to the clash against RCB, let's look back at the Mumbai Indians campaign over the last three weeks ..

Match 1: Beat Delhi Capitals by 4 wickets

It was built up as the clash of last year’s finalists, and the onfield action more than lived up to it. In a stiff chase of 172, Yastika Bhatia started off with a fifty, Harmanpreet Kaur had the chase in control with a 34-ball 55, but with five runs needed off two balls, she holed out in the deep to Alice Capsey. In walked Sajana Sajeevan, unheard, unknown, unseen. Oh, and what an announcement it was to the world. With five runs needed off the last ball to win, she danced down the pitch and smoked it way over long-on to clinch a famous win.

Match 2: Beat Gujarat Giants by 5 wickets

The Amelia Kerr all-round show! Four wickets with the ball to restrict the Giants to 129, a clutch 25-ball 31 in the chase, and MI made it 3-0 over Gujarat!

Match 3: Lost to UP Warriorz by 7 wickets

It was a good total we got to – 161/6 in 20 overs – but given the nature of the Chinnaswamy Stadium and a rampaging Kiran Navgire, who was sent out to open and scored a fifty, MI succumbed to their first defeat.

Match 4: Beat Royal Challengers Bangalore by 7 wickets

And we were back on the winning cart in no time, with a clinical one too. Having restricted RCB to an under-par 131, the openers, Yastika Bhatia and Hayley Matthews came to the party, followed by the always-dependable Amelia carrying forward the baton and sealing the chase with 29 balls to spare.

Match 5: Lost to Delhi Capitals by 29 runs

A solid lower-order fightback, with Amanjot Kaur scoring an impressive 27-ball 42, saw MI get to 163 in the chase, but unfortunately it wasn’t enough against Delhi’s 192/4, that came on the back of Jemimah Rodrigues’ assault.

Match 6: Beat UP Warriorz by 42 runs

A rare failure for our openers, but another good middle-order recovery, thanks to Nat Sciver-Brunt’s 31-ball 45 and Amelia Kerr’s 23-ball 39 got MI to 160. But thanks to Saika Ishaque’s three-fer and Nat getting into the act again to blow away the tail, the UP batting never got going.

Match 7: Beat Gujarat Giants by 7 wickets

Make that 4-0 over the Giants! And its’ the game that will go down in history as the Sup-Harman-Thor epic! Ten fours, five sixes, 48 balls, 95 runs, and 191 was chased down single-handedly. Even the sprinklers going off during the chase couldn’t derail her momentum.

Match 8: Lost to RCB by 7 wickets

The legend that Ellyse Perry is showed up, and sadly, we were on the wrong side of it. A six-fer with the ball, an unbeaten 40 in the chase to lift RCB into the play-offs.