Womens Premier League 2024 (Feb 23- March 17)

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With UPWarriorz losing 3 inside the powerplay and the required run rate above 10 an over, its a matter now of Mumbai winning by how much.

 

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You dont see that often Grace Harris 0 not out off 12 balls in a T20 game.

 

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Make that 0 not out off 14 balls for Grace Harris. Wow.

 

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Might be a bit of an unpopular opinion for UPWarriorz.

Playing an all-rounder like McGrath is better option than playing a keeper/batsman, Healy.

 

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Standings after Game 14:

 

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Game 15:

UP Warriorz (Playing XI): Alyssa Healy(w/c), Kiran Navgire, Tahlia McGrath, Grace Harris, Shweta Sehrawat, Deepti Sharma, Poonam Khemnar, Sophie Ecclestone, Uma Chetry, Gouher Sultana, Saima Thakor

Delhi Capitals Women (Playing XI): Meg Lanning(c), Shafali Verma, Alice Capsey, Jemimah Rodrigues, Annabel Sutherland, Jess Jonassen, Arundhati Reddy, Radha Yadav, Taniya Bhatia(w), Shikha Pandey, Titas Sadhu


UP Warriorz have won the toss and have opted to bat

 

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A loss for UPWarriorz would make it difficult to qualify for the Finals tonight. (Although not mathematically impossible)

 

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Sadhu bowls Navgire in her 1st over

 

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And with the 1st strategic time out at the end of the 8th over in game 15, UPWarriorz are 53/1


Game delicately poised with neither team pulling a punch yet.

 

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And as we have our 2nd strategic time out in the match UPWarriorz are 95/4 at the end of the 14th over.

Deepti is still there and UPWarriorz would want her to bat out most of these overs if possible.

 

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Unpopular opinion: having 2 strategic time outs in an innings , is too many in a T20 match. 1 max per innings.

 

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Delhi look happy as they walk off the ground as UPWarriorz are out for 138/8 off their 20 overs.

Its advantage Delhi and UPWarriorz are facing a steep hill to keep their title aspirations alive right now.

 

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Bit of argy Bargy on a Friday night between Saima and Shafali with Saima getting her out.

 

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How did Delhi end up losing that?

Needing 2 runs to win off 4 balls with 3 wickets in hand, they bottled that.

 

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Standings after Game 15:

 

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Deepti becomes the first woman to take a T20 hattrick in WPL:

 

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And even if you look a longer span, the lost was really unloseable:

 

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And even if you look a longer span, the lost was really unloseable:

This was Meg post match

 

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This was Meg post match

What this probably shows is like most teams, the middle to lower order ,for most sides , you can put them under pressure once you get into their lineups. Delhi are one of those sides that have a reasonably good top 6 in terms of batting.

 

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Game 16 of the WPL:

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

Gujarat Giants (Playing XI): Laura Wolvaardt, Beth Mooney(w/c), Phoebe Litchfield, Ashleigh Gardner, Dayalan Hemalatha, Bharati Fulmali, Kathryn Bryce, Sneh Rana, Tanuja Kanwar, Meghna Singh, Shabnam Md Shakil



Gujarat Giants have won the toss and have opted to bat

 

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New wicket for tonights game. Katey Martin reckons its a batting paradise in Delhi tonight.

 

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Outfield quick tonight in Delhi according to Martin.

 

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Mooney 50 up in 27 balls. And thats back-to-back 50s for her this tournament.

 

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Hemalatha has been a good partner for Mooney bringing up her 50 in quicktime.

 

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2nd and 4th fastest 50s from these 2 batting tonight.