An improved fielding effort and a rounded efficiency with bat and ball helped Gujarat Giants beat UP Warriorz by six wickets to register its first factors of the Girls’s Premier League’s (WPL) 2025 season.
Ashleigh Gardner and Deandra Dottin’s power-hitting capped a medical efficiency which started with a fiery spell from Priya Mishra. Dottin and Harleen Deol’s fifty-run stand helped the house aspect chase 144 with two overs to spare.
Deandra Dottin of Gujarat Giants play a shot throughout match 3 of the Girls’s Premier League 2025 (WPL) between The Gujarat Giants and The UP Warriorz held on the BCA stadium, Vadodara, India on the sixteenth February 2025.
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Deandra Dottin of Gujarat Giants play a shot throughout match 3 of the Girls’s Premier League 2025 (WPL) between The Gujarat Giants and The UP Warriorz held on the BCA stadium, Vadodara, India on the sixteenth February 2025.
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The Giants didn’t get off to the very best begin, shedding two wickets for as many runs on the board earlier than Laura Wolvaardt and skipper Gardner turned issues round with a fifty-run stand for the third wicket.
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Gardner’s dominance with the bat continued as she introduced up her second consecutive fifty, this one in simply 28 balls.
Grace Harris eliminated compatriot Beth Mooney for a golden duck and Sophie Ecclestone outsmarted Wolvaardt and D. Hemalatha to peg issues again in favour of the Warriorz, however the Giants obtained residence comfortably.
Warriorz placed on a disappointing present with the bat in its first sport of the season. The aspect lacked contributions from its openers, Kiran Navgire and Vrinda Dinesh, who fell in successive overs.
Skipper Deepti Sharma cast a fifty-run partnership with keeper Uma Chetry to stabilise the Warriorz inning. Uma discovered the gaps to maintain the boundaries coming earlier than holing out to Priya at mid-on. Deepti may solely watch her crew collapse from the opposite finish.
Priya Mishra of Gujarat Giants
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Priya Mishra of Gujarat Giants
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Priya struck gold in her second over, eradicating harmful batters Tahlia McGrath and Harris in the identical over. McGrath was on the receiving finish of a troublesome leg earlier than name, with the third umpire ruling that the ball hit her pad earlier than her bat. Harris lasted solely two balls earlier than Priya’s flighted supply crashed into the stumps.
The 20-year-old completed her spell with the prized wicket of Deepti. A working catch by Gardner at mid-off introduced the curtains down on a composed 27-ball 39. Shweta Sehrawat and Sophie Ecclestone couldn’t ship the products both with the bat. Saima Thakor and Alana King cast a resistance, smashing 4 fours and the one six of the innings. The 20-run ultimate over helped the Warriorz handle a decent 143 which simply wasn’t sufficient in the long run.