Mumbai Indians’ Amelia Kerr performs a shot in the course of the Women’s Premier League 2024 (WPL) match between Gujarat Giants (GG) and Mumbai Indians (MI) on the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru on February 25, 2024.
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Amelia Kerr got here up with a splendid all-round effort to help Mumbai Indians seal a five-wicket win over Gujarat Giants in a Women’s Premier League match in Bengaluru on February 25.
Kerr first made a powerful impression along with her leg spin, grabbing 4 for 17 that helped defending champions Mumbai restrict Gujarat Giants to 126 for 9.
The New Zealand participant adopted that effort with 31 off 25 balls as Mumbai reached the goal in 18.1 overs after getting lowered to 21 for 2 within the fourth over.
Kerr acquired wonderful help from skipper Harmanpreet Kaur (46 not out, 41 b, 5×4, 1×6)) because the pair made 66 runs for the fourth wicket as MI registered their second successive win within the match.
Nat-Sciver Brunt (22, 18 balls) too performed a great hand and her scoops behind the wicketkeeper for fours off pacer Leah Tahuhu had been the epitome of innovation and timing. However, Brunt was run out as MI had been in a spot of hassle at 49 for 3.
Kerr and Harmanpreet displayed wonderful game-awareness to bail their staff out.
With a paltry goal in entrance, each Kerr and Harmanpreet didn’t have to indicate any pointless urgency. They stored the board transferring with singles and twos, whereas hammering these occasional boundaries. Harmanpreet sliced Katherine Bryce previous level for a complicated 4, whereas Kerr lapped Tahuhu over stumper Beth Mooney’s head for a 4.
However, Kerr didn’t final until the ultimate lap as one other try and play a scoop off Tahuhu noticed her getting trapped in entrance of the wicket. But by then she had carried out the job.
Earlier, Kerr and veteran pacer Shabnam Ismail (3/18) clamped down Giants with tremendous spells. Ismail, who has retired from worldwide cricket, confirmed that her fireplace had not dwindled whereas opening Mumbai’s bowling within the Power Play section, dismissing Veda Krishnamurthy and Harleen Deol.
Both Veda and Deol had been trapped in entrance of the wicket with deliveries that swung again into them at a good clip.
Pacer Brunt jettisoned Phoebe Litchfield within the sixth over because the Giants ended the Power Play at 43 for 3. But their innings nosedived farther from there as Giants didn’t discover a boundary within the subsequent 44 balls, and so as to add to their woes, additionally they misplaced wickets at common intervals.
Skipper and opener Mooney, who survived the preliminary flurry of wickets, regarded to get into some form of rhythm however her try and reverse-lap Ismail ended within the arms of Yastika Bhatia behind the wickets.
At 58 for 5 in 11 overs, the Giants had been all the time going through an uphill climb as Mumbai bowlers tightened their grip.
Kerr additional sophisticated their troubles, dismissing Ashleigh Gardner and Sneh Rana within the house of two balls within the 14th over as Gujarat struggled for momentum and runs.
They added a contact of respectability to the entire due to the eighth-wicket alliance between Bryce (25 not out) and Kanwar (28) value 48 runs, the largest in Gujarat innings.
But it was manner too inadequate on the evening.
Source: www.thehindu.com
