Kiran Navgire and Alyssa Healy unleashed a exceptional assault on Mumbai Indians bowlers to energy UP Warriorz to a seven-wicket win of their WPL 2024 match on Wednesday.
Navigre (57, 31b, 6×4, 4×6) and Healy (33, 29 balls) added 94 runs for the opening wicket stand in simply 9.1 overs because the Warriorz eased previous the 162-run goal in 16.4 overs handy the defending champions their first defeat of the season.
Mumbai batting suffered within the absence of skipper and in-form batter Harmanpreet Kaur, who’s nursing a niggle, as a laboured 55 off 47 balls from Hayley Matthews guided them to 161 for six. It was a aggressive complete however the Mumbai bowlers wouldn’t have suspected a carnage just like the one Navigre and Healy unloaded on them.
Navigre, who’s the one Indian ladies batter to attain a 150-plus rating in senior T20s, absolutely exploited her promotion as opener, as Mumbai additionally suffered from the injury-enforced absence of lead pacer Shabnim Ismail.
Healy gave a sound begin to UP’s chase with two successive boundaries off pacer Nat-Sciver Brunt, they usually saved the momentum going from that time. Navigre, who made a gradual begin making 5 off six balls, slipped into her aggressive greatest towards pacer Issy Wong, hammering her for 4 fours within the third over to gather 16 runs and it was only the start of the onslaught.
Navigre, who was dropped on 42 by Wong close to the ropes off Matthews, quickly accomplished his fifty in simply 25 balls and it got here by a thundering six off the West Indian spinner over long-on.
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But leg-spinner Amelia Kerr had participant of the match Navigre stumped to present a chew of respite to Mumbai, who appeared to have gained a foothold as Wong dismissed each Healy and Tahlia McGrath within the eleventh over. They wanted 64 runs at this stage, however Grace Harris (38, 17 balls) and Deepti Sharma (27, 20 balls) made these runs with minimal fuss.
Earlier, Mumbai made a sedate begin to their innings and needed to wait until the fourth over for the primary 4. Yastika Bhatia (26, 22b) gave Mumbai the much-needed acceleration when the left-hander hammered 18 runs off left-arm pacer Anjali Sarvani by a sequence of three fours and a six, which was thumped proper over the bowler’s head.
However, Bhatia didn’t final lengthy as a pull performed nearer to her physique off Harris ended within the fingers of Rajeshwari Gayakwad. Matthews too tried to up the tempo and located the occasional large hits amid a slew of mis-time photographs. Her 4 and 6 off successive balls off left-arm spinner Gayakwad have been a reminder to her energy and timing when in movement.
Matthews, who was dropped on 43 by Deepti off Harris, reached her fifty in 44 balls however couldn’t kick on. Her effort to clear long-on off Gayakwad didn’t have elevation and distance as Harris accomplished a straightforward catch. A few hefty blows within the remaining phases by Pooja Vastrakar (18, 12b) and Wong helped MI to cross the 150-run mark.
(With company inputs)
Source: www.mid-day.com
