The Gujarat Giants-Mumbai Indians conflict nonetheless stays a one-sided contest. Harmanpreet Kaur and Co. ensured that after securing a five-wicket win over the house aspect on the Kotambi Worldwide Stadium right here in Vadodara on Tuesday.
Nat Sciver-Brunt’s heroics with the bat and ball have been sufficient for MI to chase down the 121-run goal with 23 balls to spare. The England all-rounder picked two wickets for 27 runs and introduced up a second consecutive half-century to wrap up MI’s authoritative efficiency.
On a recent new pitch, the Giants have been in a position to trigger early harm, dismissing Hayley Matthews off Tanuja Kanwer’s bowling. The opener, who took a three-wicket haul, hammered it straight to Harleen Deol at sq. leg off the left-arm spinner’s supply.
GG’s fielding effort fluctuated all through however Priya Mishra and Kashvee Gautham gave the crew a shot at combating again. The children received two scalps apiece, with the spinner getting the prized one in all an in-form Sciver-Brunt (57 off 39 balls) and Kashvee Gautham trapping each, skipper Harmanpreet and Amelia Kerr, leg earlier than.
However the match was removed from Giants’ grasp as S. Sajana and debutant G. Kamalini sealed the cope with back-to-back fours. The Ashleigh Gardner-led aspect couldn’t do a lot to alter its destiny after a disappointing displaying with the bat.
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The Harmanpreet-led aspect had GG tottering throughout the first six overs, eradicating its highly effective top-order for bleak scores. Sciver-Brunt drew first blood, deceiving Beth Mooney with a cutter that took her exterior edge and located Sanskriti Gupta at backward level.
Hayley Matthews of Mumbai Indians celebrates the wicket of Kashvee Gautam of Gujarat Giants throughout match 5 of the Ladies’s Premier League 2025 (WPL) between The Gujarat Giants and The Mumbai Indians held on the BCA Stadium, Vadodara, India on the 18th February 2025.
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Hayley Matthews of Mumbai Indians celebrates the wicket of Kashvee Gautam of Gujarat Giants throughout match 5 of the Ladies’s Premier League 2025 (WPL) between The Gujarat Giants and The Mumbai Indians held on the BCA Stadium, Vadodara, India on the 18th February 2025.
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The MI bowler struck once more, this time claiming the essential wicket of Gardner. The skipper, using on the again of consecutive half-centuries, might solely add 10 runs earlier than mistiming a slower ball to Sajana at deep mid-wicket.
Amelia Kerr, who had taken a superb catch off Hayley Matthews to ship Dayalan Hemalatha packing, received the large scalp of Deandra Dottin to additional deepen the Giants’ woes. The West Indies all-rounder swung on the ball but it surely was collected swiftly by keeper Yastika Bhatia who took the bails off.
Kashvee had began to choose up the tempo with Harleen, including 24 runs for the sixth wicket. However the former’s miscued sweep off Matthews’ tossed-up supply scraped her bat sufficient for Yastika to win a caught-behind enchantment.
Simran Shaikh couldn’t make many of the reprieve and handed Kerr a straightforward catch at deep mid-wicket after being dropped in the same scenario. Harleen (32 off 31 balls) held fort for the Giants with a composed knock of 32 off 31 however holed out to Matthews at deep backward sq. leg, dashing any hope the Giants had of placing on a defendable whole.