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Ian Chadband

Lanning's Delhi fall to last-ball six in WPL opener

Australian great Meg Lanning has presided over a dramatic opening-day defeat for Delhi in the WPL. (Simon Sturzaker/AAP PHOTOS)

Meg Lanning's return to action in the Women's Premier League has ended in high drama and some frustration as her Delhi Capitals side were toppled by a last-ball six from Mumbai Indians' debutant Sajeevan Sadana.

Australia's former all-conquering captain, who quit her national team duties last December, could only applaud, along with the rest of the star-studded crowd in Bengaluru, as Sadana, needing five off the last ball, clubbed English spinner Alice Capsey's legspin over long on for the match-winning maximum.

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