WPL 2023: Mumbai Indians make it to the final of Women’s Premier League, beat UP Warriors by 72 runs in Eliminator match

The final match in the Women’s Premier League will now be played between Delhi Capitals and Mumbai Indians, topping the points table. Mumbai Indians have defeated UP Warriors in the Eliminator match. Mumbai Indians have now become the second team to play the final. The final match of the Women’s Premier League will now be played on 26th match between Delhi Capitals and Mumbai Indians. After this match, the name of the first winner of the Women’s Premier League will be in front of everyone.

Earlier in the Eliminator match, UP Warriors won the toss and decided to bowl first. Electing to bat first after losing the toss, Mumbai Indians batted strongly, tearing apart the UP bowlers. Mumbai scored 182 runs for four wickets in 20 overs. At the same time, the UP batsmen could not face the Mumbai bowlers. The UP team could not even complete 20 overs and got reduced to 110 runs in 17.4 overs. Mumbai won by 72 runs.

Mumbai made pressure by batting first
The Mumbai team batted first and dominated the UP bowlers. For Mumbai, Natalie Sciver Brunt again put in a strong performance. He scored an unbeaten 72 with the help of nine fours and two sixes. The bowlers also put in a strong performance for Mumbai. UP batsmen could not stand in front of Mumbai fast bowler Issy Wong. Issey Wong’s hat-trick secured a resounding victory.

Issy Wong took four wickets for 15 runs in four overs and played a key role in helping Mumbai reach the final. With this, Issy Wong became the first player to take a hat-trick in the Women’s Premier League. Issy Wong put the pressure on the team by scalping the wickets of UP’s Kiran Navgire, Simran Sheikh and Sophie Ecclestone in the 13th over from which UP could not emerge. Apart from Issy’s brilliant performance, Saika Ishaq took two wickets for 24 runs. Natalie Seaver, Healy Mathews and Jay Kalita also took a wicket each.

Siever Brunt took full advantage of the life he got during his 38-ball innings. When she was on six, Eccleston (2/39) dropped Rajeshwari Gaikwad’s catch at mid-off. UP Warriors looked in control for the first 10 overs at the DY Patil Stadium thanks to their spin bowlers, as none of the Mumbai batsmen could play a big innings except for Siever Brunt.

Right-handed batsman Siever Brunt stood firm at one end, adding 60 runs for the fourth wicket with Amelia Kerr (29 off 19 balls, five fours) to help extend the innings. Mumbai Indians put up a challenging score of 78 from overs five to 15 and then added 66 runs in the last five overs. The likes of Yastika Bhatia (21), Hayley Mathews (26) and Harmanpreet Kaur (14) could not convert starts into big innings as UP Warriors dominated.

Bhatia hit a four off the first ball of the match, looking in good form but was dismissed by Anjali Saravani (1/17) in the fifth over. The wicket-keeper batsman from Mumbai added 31 runs for the first wicket with Mathews. Mathews hit the first six of the match by reaching Grace Harris’ ball to deep square leg. In the powerplay, Mumbai Indians scored 46 runs for one wicket. Mathews and Siver Brunt were leading the innings.

UP Warriors vice-captain Deepti Sharma had almost broken the partnership in the ninth over when Sarwani took a low catch at deep square leg but the third umpire ruled in favor of Mathews as replays showed the ball had hit the ground. had touched But UP Warriors didn’t have to wait long for their second wicket as 16-year-old Parshvi Chopra got Mathews (26 balls, two fours, one six) caught at long on on her first ball in the 10th over. Siever Brunt stepped up the attack on the rival team, hitting Chopra for two fours and a six in the 12th over. Mumbai completed their 100 runs in the next over and lost the wicket of captain Harmanpreet (14 runs). Eccleston bowled him.

UP team performed poorly
The UP Warriors team had to bear the brunt of poor performance in fielding and shot selection of the batsmen. For that only Kiran Navgire was able to face the bowlers of Mumbai Indians. He played a quickfire inning of 43 runs in 27 balls with four fours and three sixes. But no other batsman could score more than 20 runs.

Earlier, the target pressure on UP Warriors was visible from the very beginning and it did not start well. The team lost three wickets for 21 runs Were. Shweta Sehrawat was the first player to be dismissed. Captain Alyssa Healy was able to play only six balls when Harmanpreet was caught by Wong. The run out of Tahlia McGrath (07) was very disappointing for the team. Then with the arrival of Navagire, a little hope arose.

He and Grace Harris (14 runs) added 20 runs in the sixth over. With this, the team scored 46 runs for three wickets in the powerplay. But Harris soon fell victim to Siever Brunt, ending a 22-ball 35-run partnership between her and Navagire. Navagire hit Amelia Kerr for two sixes and a four in the 12th over, scoring 19 runs in this over. But after this Wong’s charismatic bowling showed amazing and ensured the victory of Mumbai Indians.