Isabelle Wong’s (4/15) historic hat-trick and Sciver-Brunt’s blinder helped Mumbai Indians women storm into Sunday’s Women Premier League Finale against Meg Lanning’s Delhi Capitals.
After winning the toss birthday girl Alyssa Healy invited mighty Mumbai Indians to bat first,at the very beginning MI found some difficulties at the pitch and their go-to batter Hayley Matthews not on song. Made run a ball 26 with the help of 2 boundaries and 1 over the boundary and her opening partner Yastika Bhatia made 21 runs with the help of 4 nice boundaries.
After the fall of the First wicket Nat Sciver-Brunt arrived at the crease and made the color of the game with her brutal 189 strike rate 72 runs inning, which consisted of 9 classical hit 4’s and 2 mighty sixes.
With the help of such graceful batting Mumbai Indians piled up a mammoth 183 runs target in Infront of UP Warriorz Women.
Within 5 overs UP Warriorz, the ship found hard water to cruise as they lost their one of the best batters Tahlia McGrath. Grace Harris and Kiran Navgire and Deepti Sharma tried to steady the ship somehow until Wong’s comeback on the 13th over.
how did Issy’s Historic hat trick happen?
That Issy’s 13th over will be haunting to those UP Warriorz for a long long time . 12.2 (Kiran Navgire) , 12.3(Simran Shaikh), 12.4(Sophie Ecclestone) sealed the coffin of UP Warriorz dream of making it into final. It could have been an Australian final then. Eventually, Mumbai Indians Women thrashed UP Warriorz by 72 runs to make it India vs Australia Final on Sunday.
Nat Sciver Brunt is now the highest run-getter of Mumbai Indians with 272 runs at a strike rate of 150, also picked up 10 wickets in this tournament so far. She is a gem of a rounder.
Mumbai Indians Captain Harman Preet Kaur is the current Indian Captain and Singapore-born Meghann Moira Lanning is donning the captaincy cap for Australia currently.
WPL 2023 Final on 26th March at Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai 7:30 pm.
Two Finalists Squads
Delhi Capitals: Meg Lanning (c), Jemimah Rodrigues (vc), Shafali Verma, Alice Capsey, Marizanne Kapp, Taniya Bhatia, Jess Jonassen, Tara Norris, Arundhati Reddy, Shikha Pandey, Sneha Deepthi, Laura Harris, Radha Yadav, Titas Sadhu, Jasia Akhter, Poonam Yadav, Minnu Mani, Aparna Mondal
Mumbai Indians: Harmanpreet Kaur (c), Nat Sciver-Brunt, Hayley Matthews, Amelia Kerr, Pooja Vastrakar, Yastika Bhatia, Chloe Tryon, Heather Graham, Dhara Gujjar, Saika Ishaque, Humairaa Kaazi, Sonam Yadav, Neelam Bisht, Jintimani Kalita, Issy Wong, Amanjot Kaur, Priyanka Bala
Details on Streaming and Telecast
Sports18 and Sports18 Khel will broadcast the games live right from the coin toss of the grand Final from Mumbai which means at sharp 7:00 pm while the match will be starting at 7.30 pm. The live streaming will be available through jiocinema app and website for free.
One Fun fact regarding the Mumbai Indians captain Harmanpreet Kaur, till Final , she took part in 9 coin toss and lost in 8 times but came out as a winner of the match 7 times.
FAQ’s
Who could be the most important players in the upcoming Final match?
Meg Lanning, Nat Sciver-Brunt, Amelia Kerr,Harmanpreet Kaur
What is the Statistics of Brabourne Stadium before the grand finale?
This Brabourne stadium is usually known as High scoring ground and fans have already witnessed the 211 posted by Delhi Capitals against UP Warriorz.
The highest successful run chase at this ground was 189 for 2 by Royal Challengers Bangalore against Gujarat Giants.
This ground also saw the low score of 64 made by Gujarat Giants against Mumbai Indians.
Sophie Devine of RCB scored 99 is still the highest score on this ground.
So far 10 matches have been played here
Matches won by teams batting first: 4
Matches won by teams batting second: 6
Average first-innings score: 162
Brabourne Stadium pitch report for Sunday’s Upcoing Final?
As already mentioned this is usually a batting paradise but WPL 2023 is a big tournament and back-to-back matches need to be played on the same pitches so sometimes those pitches become tired and at the fag end of the match balls starts to turn a lot and sometimes uneven bounce is also been witnessed .
We would expect a high-scoring cliffhanger final from both the teams but you never know what is stored in the future.
May be another Issy’s historic hat trick, or maybe Nat Sciver-Brunt’s blinder is waiting for us.
Good Luck to both teams for the upcoming final.
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