While it may have been the UP Warriorz spinners whose suffocating line and length restricted the Mumbai Indians to 160 in the first innings, it was the furious spell by speedster Shabnim Ismail that dismantled their run chase to hand MI a 42-run win in the Women’s Premier League (WPL) game in New Delhi on Thursday.

Two days after she bowled the fastest ball (132.1 kmph) ever recorded in women’s cricket, the South African pacer would deal the death blow to the Warriorz run chase by the time she finished her frugal spell in the seventh over. Figures of 1-6 do not do full justice to Ismail’s spell, and neither do the empty stands that witnessed it on a pleasant evening at the Arun Jaitley Stadium.