After a stellar 2023 season that culminated in Mumbai Indians becoming the inaugural Women’s Premier League Champs, it’s time to sound the bugle for 2024. And the start, is with a bit of mixed news – of retentions and releases.

Title-winning Kaptaan Harmanpreet Kaur, Most Valuable Player And Purple Cap recipient - Hayley Matthews, Emerging Player of the season - Yastika Bhatia, Player of the Final - Natalie Sciver-Brunt, Amelia Kerr, Isabelle Wong, Chloe Tryon, Pooja Vastrakar, Saika Ishaque, Amanjot Kaur, Jintimani Kalita, Humairaa Kaazi and Priyanka Bala are the 13 retained players who will don the famous Blue and Gold once again come 2024.

But as we do so, we look back with great fondness at our Batch of 2023, the one where it all began, the one who’ll go down in history as the first ever, the OG Champions. With a heavy heart we bid goodbye to four of our girls for now, Heather Graham, Sonam Yadav, Dhara Gujjar and Neelam Bisht, who were a crucial part of our campaign.

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