Simply when defending champion Mumbai Indians appeared invincible once more, UP Warriorz put the brakes on its marketing campaign, driving on an authoritative fifty from Kiran Navgire (57, 31b, 6×4, 4×6) for a seven-wicket win within the Girls’s Premier League 2024 in Bengaluru on the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium on Wednesday.
Kiran opened with Alyssa Healy, changing Vrinda Dinesh, who was injured whereas fielding.
The 29-year-old spared none as her superlative shot choice, each off the entrance foot and again foot, helped her race to a half-century off 25 deliveries.
She fell to Amelia Kerr, however her 56-ball 94 opening stand with Healy already took the sport away from MI.
MI-W vs UP-W Highlights WPL 2024: UP Warriorz beats MI by 7 wickets
After conceding 17 off her first over to Kiran, Issy Wong got here again to take away Tahlia McGrath and the well-set Healy on 32. It wasn’t sufficient, as what Kiran began was completed by Grace Harris and Deepti Sharma, who took Warriorz residence with 21 balls to spare.
Earlier, Hayley Matthews’ fifty (55, 47b, 9×4, 1×6) and late cameos from Kerr and Pooja Vastrakar took MI to 161 for six after being put in to bat.
Anjali Sarvani, Harris and Sophie Ecclestone helped Warriorz preserve the MI openers on a leash. All three bowled a tidy line size, conceding simply eight within the first three overs.
Matthews hit a 4 off Harris over extra-cover to get MI’s first boundary, after 19 deliveries.
Yastika Bhatia broke unfastened and struck Anjali for 3 fours and a six, accumulating 18 off the fifth over. Matthews adopted go well with, dealing in boundaries off Deepti and Rajeshwari Gayakwad as MI reached 50 inside eight overs.
In the identical over, Harris offered Warriorz their first breakthrough, dismissing Yastika on 26 simply because the partnership started to look threatening.
Nat Sciver-Brunt, the stand-in captain for MI within the absence of Harmanpreet Kaur, who, like Shabnim Ismail, was out with a niggle, joined Matthews.
Sciver-Brunt’s keep within the center was transient, as she sacrificed her wicket throughout a run out to avoid wasting Matthews within the thirteenth over.
Matthews introduced up her fifty off 44 deliveries earlier than sweeping Deepti for a 4, taking MI previous 100 in 14 overs. She holed out to Harris off Rajeshwari.
Pooja and Kerr added 29 off 19 balls for the fourth wicket earlier than Wong and S. Sajana took MI previous 160, however no whole was sufficient towards Kiran’s storm.