How are you able to cease this Mumbai facet? Four MI matches later, none of its rivals in the Women’s Premier League has a solution. In entrance of a close to full home at the Brabourne Stadium on Sunday, with the followers cheering the staff proper by, it crushed UP Warriorz by eight wickets.
After proscribing Warriorz to 159 for six, MI romped house in the 18th over with skipper Harmanpreet Kaur main the cost (53 not out, 33b, 9×4, 1×6).
It was Harmanpreet’s unbroken third-wicket stand of 106 with Nat Sciver-Brunt (45 not out, 31b, 6×4, 1×6) that destroyed Warriorz’s hopes which had soared after the MI openers Yastika Bhatia (42, 27b, 8×4, 1×6) and Hayley Mathews (12, 17b, 2×4) left at the identical whole of 58.
Earlier, MI didn’t bowl out an opposition for the first time, however that didn’t matter in the finish. When the third-wicket partnership between Warriorz captain Alyssa Healy (58, 46b, 7×4, 1×6) and Tahlia McGrath (50, 37b, 9×4) was seeking to take the staff into the loss of life overs, MI struck again by left-arm spinner Saika Ishaque. The Purple Cap holder eliminated the Aussies in the identical over. She trapped Healy on the reverse sweep and a ball later had McGrath stumped with a flighted supply.
Saika had taken the first wicket, too, in the second over of the day — Devika Vaidya fell lbw whereas attempting to brush a fuller, faster supply.
Kiran Navgire, after hitting 10 in two balls off Amelia Kerr, perished to the subsequent, top-edging a slog-sweep to ’keeper Yastika, who needed to wait an eternity for the ball to land in her massive gloves. Warriorz wanted to rebuild and Healy did that in the firm of McGrath by their 82-run affiliation.
That, nonetheless, wasn’t sufficient to cease Mumbai.
Scoreboard
UP WARRIORZ
Alyssa Healy lbw b Saika 58 (46b, 7×4, 1×6), Devika Vaidya lbw b Saika 6 (5b, 1×4), Kiran Navgire c Yastika b Kerr 17 (14b, 2×4, 1×6), Tahlia McGrath st. Yastika b Saika 50 (37b, 9×4), Simran Shaikh (not out) 9 (8b), Sophie Ecclestone c Sciver-Brunt b Matthews 1 (4b), Deepti Sharma st. Yastika b Kerr 7 (6b, 1×4), Shweta Sehrawat (not out) 2 (2b); Extras (lb-5, w-2, nb-2): 9; Total (for six wkts. in 20 overs): 159.
FALL OF WICKETS
1-8 (Devika, 1.6 overs), 2-58 (Kiran, 6.4), 3-140 (Healy, 16.3), 4-141 (McGrath, 16.5), 5-146 (Ecclestone, 17.6), 6-156 (Deepti, 19.3).
MUMBAI INDIANS BOWLING
Sciver-Brunt 3-0-19-0, Saika 4-0-33-3, Wong 4-0-29-0, Kerr 4-0-33-2, Matthews 4-0-27-1, Jintimani 1-0-13-0.
MUMBAI INDIANS
Hayley Matthews c & b Ecclestone 12 (17b, 2×4), Yastika Bhatia c Simran b Rajeshwari 42 (27b, 8×4, 1×6), Nat Sciver-Brunt (not out) 45 (31b, 6×4, 1×6), Harmanpreet Kaur (not out) 53 (33b, 9×4, 1×6); Extras (b-3, lb-1, w-5, nb-3): 12; Total (for 2 wkts. in 17.3 overs): 164.
FALL OF WICKETS
1-58 (Yastika, 6.5), 2-58 (Matthews, 7.2).
UP WARRIORZ BOWLING
Rajeshwari 4-0-33-1, Shabnim 3.3-0-34-0, Deepti 3-0-30-0, Anjali 2-0-14-0, Ecclestone 4-0-30-1, McGrath 1-0-19-0.
Toss: UP Warriorz.
PoM: Harmanpreet.
Monday’s match: Capitals vs. Royal Challengers, 7.30 p.m.
