Mumbai Indians registered their fourth win in Women’s Premier League (WPL) season-3. The team defeated the home team UP Warriors by 6 wickets on Friday. UP scored 150 runs after losing 9 wickets at Lucknow’s Ekana Stadium. Mumbai achieved the target at the loss of 4 wickets in 18.3 overs. Mumbai opener Hayley Matthews hit a fifty, she scored 68 runs in 46 balls. In bowling, Amelia Kerr took 5 wickets for 38 runs. Georgia Voll scored 55 runs from UP. UP crumbled after a good start
Mumbai won the toss and chose bowling at Ekana Stadium. Grace Harris and Georgia Voll made an opening partnership of 74 runs from UP. Harris was dismissed after scoring 28 runs, after her Kiran Navgire could not even open the account. Voll also got out after scoring 55 runs. Captain Deepti Sharma held one end, but the other batsmen could not handle it in front of her. Deepti scored 27 runs, Amelia Kerr took 5 wickets and UP could score only 150 runs after losing 9 wickets. Hayley Matthews got 2 wickets from Mumbai. Natalie Siver-Brunt and Parunika Sisodia took 1-1 wickets. Mumbai lost a wicket in the third over
Chasing the target of 151 runs, Mumbai lost the wicket of Amelia Kerr in the third over. She could score only 10 runs. Hayley Matthews then took over the innings with Nat Siver Brunt. Both of them made a partnership of 92 runs and took the team past 100 runs. Natalie was out after scoring 37 runs. Hayley Matthews was out after scoring 68 runs in the 14th over. Captain Harmanpreet Kaur could score only 4 runs. Finally Amanjot Kaur and Yastika Bhatia gave the team victory in the 19th over. Kranti Gaur and Shinelle Henry got 1-1 wickets from UP. Grace Harris took 2 wickets. MI reached second place in the points table.
Mumbai got its fourth win in 6 matches of the third season. The team reached second place with 8 points. The team suffered both defeats in the season against Delhi Capitals. Delhi is on top with 10 points. UP is at fifth place with 4 points.
