MI vs UP, WPL 2025 Highlights: Mumbai Indians thrashes UP Warriorz by eight wickets, climbs to top of standings
MI vs UP, WPL 2025 Highlights: Mumbai Indians thrashes UP Warriorz by eight wickets, climbs to top of standings
Credits: K MURALI KUMAR/The Hindu
Seven runs to win. Ecclestone handed the ball. Three fielders deep down on the on side to block the boundarues. Sciver-Brunt happy with a single. Three singles. OUT! Matthews cannot see the game out.
Hayley Matthews c Vrinda b Ecclestone 59 (50)
Harmanpreet Kaur walks in. FOUR! That’s the game.
MI win by eight wickets to take the top spot in the WPL points table.
FOUR! Make that 5 because of the no ball. Matthews found the gap between long on and deep mid wicket. SIX! Makes use of the free hit. Just slips Henry’s grasp at deep mid-wicket. Takes a single and that’s 50 for Matthews! Outside edge and flies past short thiird for FOUR! One more FOUR! And Grace Harris has gone for 22 runs this over.
Timeout.
FOUR! And FOUR again! Sweeps the first one to the left of short fine and scoops it the right of the fielder. Matthews on strike now. Takes three singles. 11 runs off the over.
McGrath to Matthews. Pounded short and Matthews gets a leg bye. Brings up the team 100. Four runs coming off it. MI now needs 40 runs off 36 balls. Question is, how quickly can it get there?
FOUR! Fifty for Sciver-Brunt! Thrird of the season! Length ball from Ecclestone, pulls it through midwicket. Three runs later, she’s back on strike and that’s FOUR again! Between point and cover to the fence. Full toss and gone for FOUR! On the stumps, Sciver-Brunt pulls in front of square leg.
Grace Harris into the attack. A couple of singles to start the over. Beaten! Length, outside off, and cannot connect. FOUR! Matthews ends the over with a boundary. Cuts between point and backward point.
Credits: K MURALI KUMAR/The Hindu
Henry to bowl out. FOUR! Slammed straight down the ground. Sciver-Brunt is on a roll. FOUR more! Hits it over the infield behind point. And again! FOUR in front of square leg. 13 runs off the over.
Deepti returns. In the slot, turing into the middle stump, Matthews finds a gap and had to run back hard tocomplete the second. FOUR! Sciver-Brunt cuts past point to the fence. Nine runs from the over.
Tahlia McGrath given the ball. Matthews takes a single. Short, Sciver-Brunt pulled with power but finds the square leg fielder. Matthews on strike and FOUR! Shorter and swatted away behind square. Eight runs.
Ecclestone returns. Matthews gets on the back foot, finds a single. FOUR! Sciver-Brunt reverse paddles to the gap behind square. A couple of singles to end the over. Seven coming off it.
Kranti Goud into the attack. Short and wide, Matthews frees her arms and cuts it past point for FOUR! Restricts the big-hitters to singles. Offers a wide one as well. Eight runs from the over.
Timeout.
Saima Thakor with the ball. Starts with a wide. FOUR! Width on offer and Sciver-Brunt drags it behind mid on. FOUR more! Spots the gap on the off side and strikes it past cover. FOUR again! Sciver-Brunt toying with the field here. To deep square leg this time. Matthews on strike now. Gets a single. 15 runs this over.
Henry bowls her third. Swinging back into the batter and ball strikes Hayley on the abdomen. Very full and Hayley’s swing cannot connect. The dot-ball streak ends this over as Hayley smacks a SIX! Last ball, Hayley had enough and launches one over the on side.
Deepti Sharma replaces Ecclestone. OUT! Kranti takes a great catch at deep mid-wicket. Yastika out for a duck.
Yastika Bhatia c Goud b Sharma 0 (8)
Credits: K MURALI KUMAR/The Hindu
Nat Sciver-Brunt in at 3. Deepti comes around the wicket. FOUR! Matthews beats square leg for the first boundary of the innings.
Dropped! Henry with a bouncer and has a fielder placed right by the keeper. Ecclestone cannot grab it. Matthews finding no time at all, skies it towards long on for two. Yastika on strike now. Leg bye. Four runs off the over.
Sophie Ecclestone into the attack. Left-arm orthodox vs Right-arm bat. Spins away from her Hayley’s bat. Looks to sweep but is struck on the gloves. Moves away to make some room, but can’t pierce through cover region. Struck on the pads again but not in line. Finds a single on the last ball.
Yastika Bhatia and Hayley Matthews open for MI. Chinelle Henry with the new ball. Getting some swing here. Hayley punches it to deep cover for a single. Full and on the pads, Yastika digs it to mid on. Defends the last one to mid off. One run off the first over.
The Warriorz witnessed a massive collapse in the batting lineup. From 81/1, the Deepti Sharma-led side plumetted to 123/7. The MI bowlers nailed the length with Ismail and Sanskriti picking two and NSB getting three.
143 on the board. If MI wins, it moves to the top of the table with six points. What can the Warriorz do to take the spot for themselves?
Credits: K MURALI KUMAR/The Hindu
Last batter Kranti Goud comes in. Kerr to bowl the final over. Takes a couple of singles. Uma skies it, just falls short of long off running in. FOUR! Karnti beats the cover fielder and gets her side past the 140 mark.
FOUR! Full around off, Uma gets enough power to go through long on. Ecclestone gets on strike. OUT! DISLODGES THE MIDDLE STUMP! Slower ball, angling in and Ecclestone cannot replicate the magic of her previous knock.
Sophie Ecclestone b Ismail 6 (8)
Saima Thakor struck on the pads. Harmanpreet takes the review. Was going down leg and that’s another (final) review lost. But Ismail strikes again OUT!
Saima Thakor b Ismail 0 (2)
Matthews to bowl her final over. Ecclestone and Uma finding the gaps and running hard. FOUR! Shorter, just outside off, dispatched by Ecclestone to the right of deep mid wicket.
Sciver-Brunt to bowl out. Starts with a wide. Lucky Uma! Could have rolled back into the stumps. A failed scoop attempt and a wide call has been turned. Henry on strike now. The itch to hit big might start growing now. Wide! OUT! Length ball, looks to go into the stands and holes out to deep mid-wicket instead.
Chinelle Henry c Kerr b Nat Sciver-Brunt 7 (8)
Sophie Ecclestone gets off the mark with a single.
Ismail to Henry. Short of a yorker, outside off, Henry smacks it to long on for a single. Uma pulls to long on for a run. Short ball, beats the fielders in the ring on the off side and runs two. No proper timing for Chinelle just yet. Having to settle for running between the wicket. Extremely short and Chinelle skies it over deep backward square leg. Takes a single.
Sciver-Brunt returns. Slower ball and turned in sharply. Angling down, Uma picks up a leg bye for a single. OUT! Short ball, outside off, straight to backward point.
Shweta Sehrawat c Gupta b Nat Sciver-Brunt 19 (13)
Another short ball, Chinelle Herny finds empty land, lands short of deep mid-wicket.
Credits: K MURALI KUMAR/The Hindu
Boundaries are drying up here. Shweta slaps the short ball through the gap on the leg side, runs two. SIX! Whacked over deep mid-wicket. Ten runs coming off it.
Timeout.
Sanskriti continues. A couple of wides and singles. Shweta and Uma have to try and build a partnership here. Seven coming off the over.
What can Deepti and Shweta do here to capitalse on the string start? FOUR! Shweta finds the gap behind square leg. OUT! Skipper Harmanpreet completes the a one-handed catch at short fine leg to remove skipper Deepti, who got a top edge.
Deepti Sharma c H Kaur b Matthews 4 (6)
Uma Chetry is the new batter.
Sanskriti Gupta into the attack. Deepti flicked towards square leg for a single. OUT! Vrinda holes out to deep square leg. Both set batters depart in the span of a few deliveries.
Dinesh Vrinda c Kalita b Gupta 33 (30)
Tahlia McGrath is the new batter. Nails the yorker and McGrath loses her off-stump! OUT!
Tahlia McGrath b Gupta 1 (2)
Birthday girl Shweta Sehrawat comes in. Off the mark with a single.
Kerr continues. OUT! Ismail does not drop Harris this time. Steps out to bang it over long on but holes out instead.
Grace Harris c Ismail b Kerr 45 (26)
Credits: K MURALI KUMAR/The Hindu
Deepti Sharma in at 4. Another tidy over, four runs and a wicket.
Jintimani Kalita to bowl her first. Starts with a wide. Takes a single at mid-wicket. FOUR! Harris waited enough, not off the middle but beats a diving square leg and deep fine leg. DROPPED! Ismail has handed Harris a reprieve at long-on. FOUR! Vrinda executes a perfect drive over covers again.
Amelie Kerr into the attack. Appeal for stumping! Misses the sweep on the length ball and Yastika quickly takes the bails off. Looks like Vrinda’s foot was just a couple of centimetres behind the line and is safe. Now Harris survives an lbw scare, ball was pitching outside off. MI loses a review. Three runs from the over.
Amanjot Kaur given the ball. Full, on the pads, flicked down for a single. Harris finds a single at deep midwicket. Gets no room to swing. Amanjot has managed to limit the damage this over.
Timeout.
Matthews continues. No timing from Vrinda but lands short of mid-on who was running to her right. Harris slaps it behind square leg for a run. FOUR! Tossed up fuller and lofts it straight over the bowler.
Ismail in for Sciver-Brunt. Angles into the body and Vrinda manages a single. Harris takes it down to deep third for a run. FOUR! Slot ball, driven through cover and point. Takes a single and retains strike.
Hayley Matthews replaces Ismail. Coming up the order was exactly what Harris needed. SIX! Gets low and hammers it over deep mid-wicket. FOUR! Powers behind square leg. FOUR more! Clubbed into the gap to the right of mid-off. SIX! HARRIS HAS UNLEASHED A MONSTER! Into the stands and once again on the leg side.
Credits: K MURALI KUMAR/The Hindu
Sciver-Brunt continues. Vrinda off the mark with a FOUR! A cracking cover drive over covers. Ball takes the pade while going down leg and gets two. A couple of singles and FOUR! Short, hooked and the top edge takes it to the ropes.
Shabnim Ismail from the other end. Wobbles on the release, short and shapes away from Harris’ swinging bat. Amanjot Kaur does well in the deep to stop the boundary but next one goes for FOUR! Banged over mid-on to the fence. Another FOUR! Pulled into the gap on the on side. Could have been a great catch at mid-on but falls short and runs away for FOUR!
Nat Sciver-Brunt to start the proceedings. Picked up by Navgire and takes a single to get off the mark. Harris on strike and scoops the first ball. No power and will settle for a run. Short and Navgire has no timing on that. OUT! Skied to mid-on.
Kiran Navgire c Ismail b Nat Sciver-Brunt 1 (3)
Vrinda Dinesh in at 3.
UP Warriorz given the task of setting the total again. But the team, brimming with confidence, knows that it can defend as well. Kiran Navgire and Grace Harris will look to start strong here. Vrinda Dinesh will be seen later in the order.
Credits: Rajdeep Saha
Mumbai Indians: Yastika Bhatia(w), Hayley Matthews, Nat Sciver-Brunt, Harmanpreet Kaur(c), Amelia Kerr, Amanjot Kaur, Sajeevan Sajana, G Kamalini, Sanskriti Gupta, Shabnim Ismail, Jintimani Kalita
Jintimani Kalitain place for Parunika Sisodia.
UP Warriorz: Kiran Navgire, Vrinda Dinesh, Deepti Sharma(c), Tahlia McGrath, Shweta Sehrawat, Grace Harris, Chinelle Henry, Sophie Ecclestone, Uma Chetry(w), Kranti Goud, Saima Thakor
Unchanged.
MI wins the toss, opts to bowl.
It’s pitch no. 8, the same one on which UPW successfully defended against RCB. A few cracks and patches of green but no dew. Some cracks on the fourth stump line and bowlers may target that area. The square boundaries aren’t as skewed at 55m and 60m. A total of 170, 180 might be enough.
MUMBAI INDIANS:
Harmanpreet Kaur (C), Akshita Maheshwari, Amandeep Kaur, Amanjot Kaur, Amelia Kerr, Chloe Tryon, Hayley Mathews, Jintimani Kalita, Keerthana Balakrishnan, Nadine de Klerk, Natalie Sciver, Sajeevan Sajana, Sanskriti Gupta, G Kamalini, Yastika Bhatia, Parunika Sisodia, Saika Ishaque, Shabnim Ismail.
UP WARRIORZ:
Uma Chetry (wk), Vrinda Dinesh, Grace Harris, Deepti Sharma (c), Tahlia McGrath, Kiran Navgire, Shweta Sehrawat, Sophie Ecclestone, Alana King, Saima Thakor, Kranti Goud, Chamari Athapaththu, Anjali Sarvani, Rajeshwari Gayakwad, Gouher Sultana, Arushi Goel, Chinelle Henry, Poonam Khemnar.
Matches: 5
MI: 3
UPW: 2
Games are coming thick and fast for UP Warriorz as the side plays its fourth match in a week in the Women’s Premier League.
Despite the compact scheduling, the Warriorz will look to notch up a third consecutive win when it faces Mumbai Indians on Wednesday at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru.
Rajdeep Saha previews the match:
Mumbai Indians may have edged Royal Challengers Bengaluru but UP Warriorz did one better and won in the first-ever Super Over in WPL history.
Both sides are coming off wins and will look to extend its dominance.
MI vs UPW is Match No. 11
Hello and welcome back to WPL 2025 action!
We’re halfway through the Bengaluru leg of this edition. Four more exciting matches will take place at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium before moving to Lucknow.
Stay tuned to Sportstar’s blog for all the updates.
Published on Feb 26, 2025
