Womens Premier League 2024 (Feb 23- March 17)

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Winner of tonights game goes top of the table and gets that lucrative top spot.

 

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Head to Head between these two sides in WPL history:

Mumbai lead 3-1 over Delhi

 

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Mumbai been rusty in the field tonight.

 

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Kerr going for a fair bit tonight 35 off her 2 overs.

 

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Meg Lanning 50 up in 36 balls. She looks fairly happy with her cricket at the moment.

 

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Not sure how a team like Delhi can have 4 genuine international batting-bowling all rounders: Kapp, Sutherland, A. Kerr and Hayley Matthews in their squad.

Whilst a team like Gujarat has 1 genuine batting-bowler in Ash Gardner. Litchfield, Mooney, Wolvaardt cant contribute with ball.

That there is , I think is the reason why Gujarat have underperformed. You need your international imports to be good with both bat and ball for me.

 

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Delhi have: Kapp, Sutherland, Capsey, Jonassen.

 

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RCB have: Perry, Wareham, Molineux, Sophie Devine

 

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My pecking roles of importance of players in WPL:

1. Batting/Bowling all rounders
2. Specialist Bowlers
3. Batter/keepers
4. Specialist batters
5. Wicket keepers.

The gap between 1 and 2 is significant.

Healy and Mooney are in Category 3.

 

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Jemimah 50 up in 27 balls

 

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Delhi post 192/4 from their 20 overs and Mumbai fielding cost them a few extra runs here at Delhi.

 

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Delhi pick up 3 wickets inside the powerplay and they very much on top here with Mumbai requiring 164 off 102 with 7 in hand.

 

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But if Matthews and Kerr can bat deep , Mumbai will still count themselves a chance.

 

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Mumbai drop Matthews, could that be the lifeline Mumbai need?

 

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Matthews doesnt make the most of her life , as she departs 2 balls later and one senses thats probably game, set and match now.

 

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Kerr goes and Mumbai need 125 from 67 balls, with 5 wickets in hand and now its a case of how much Delhi will win this by.

 

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Ive seen some funny things in cricket but tonight wont be one of those nights.

 

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Standings after Game 12, with Delhi winning tonight:

 

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Caught the backend of last nights Guajrat innings and finally they won.


They played like a team that had no baggage and came out swinging.

That win keeps their slim finals aspirations alive.

 

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Also going through the stats of last nights, there were 7 run outs in the game. That must be some kind of record in a T20?

 

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Game 14 of the WPL:


Teams:

UP Warriorz (Playing XI): Alyssa Healy(w/c), Kiran Navgire, Chamari Athapaththu, Grace Harris, Shweta Sehrawat, Deepti Sharma, Poonam Khemnar, Sophie Ecclestone, Uma Chetry, Rajeshwari Gayakwad, Saima Thakor

Mumbai Indians Women (Playing XI): Hayley Matthews, Yastika Bhatia(w), Nat Sciver-Brunt, Harmanpreet Kaur(c), Amelia Kerr, Pooja Vastrakar, Amanjot Kaur, S Sajana, Humaira Kazi, Shabnim Ismail, Saika Ishaque



Mumbai Indians Women have won the toss and have opted to bat

 

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Athapaththu with 2 wickets in her first 2 overs. Captain might be tempted to give her a 3rd straight over here.

 

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Rajeshwari with an absolute ripper to get rid of Nat Sciver-Brunt there.

 

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UPWarriorz have been a bit slack in the field tonight.

 

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Mumbai Indians finish with 160/6 and this game feels delicately poised at the change of innings.

UPWarriorz need their top 4 to fire one senses to get to this target.