Mumbai Indians 122 for 5 (Sciver-Brunt 57, Kerr 19, Gautam 2-15, Mishra 2-40) Beat Gujarat giants 120 (Deol 32, Gautam 20, Matthews 3-16, Kerr 2-22) by five Wickts
There was an inevitability air from the moment a radiant Harmanpreet Kaur won the raffle and chose to play in the second game of the Mumbai Indians of WPL 2025 against Gujarat Giants. The teams that pursue had won all the games so far this season. It combines that with Mumbai’s 4-0 record against the giants who enter this party and the probabilities were stacked strongly in favor of Mumbai.
And the game extended accordingly.
He finished with 57 of 39 balls when Mumbai pursued the target for five wickts and 23 balls left over. The victory not only helped Mumbai open his account on WPL 2025, but also extended his advantage over 5-0 giants. The giants are now the only side in the tournament that does not have a single victory against a particular team.
Giant malfunction
Harmanpreet spoke at the launch of capitalizing in the first overs before the dew put on. point in the second above.
Shabnim Ismail then got rid of Laura Woolvardt, whose high impulse could only reach Sajana perfectly parked on the deep deck. That reduced the giants to 14 for 2, that four balls later became 16 for 3 when Matthews sent back from Hemalatha whose line cheese was trapped wonderfully by Kerr running to his left from the deep medium.
Ashleight Gardner, the destroyer in chief of the giants in the first two games, began to fluently four and six, but was undone by a slower delivery of joke that she was wrong with Sajana in Deep Midwicket.
At 28 of 4 after six overs, the giants could not have asked for a worse start. This was his third lowest power score in the WPL and comfortably the lowest for any team this season. What also hurt the giants was the large amount of knit ball at the beginning. Twenty -six of the 36 balls in the power game were points, the most articulated in the history of WPL.
Deol fights, no one else does
It can be a case of giants who worry about dew later or simply do not trust their defense enough so that despite the fall of the wickts, the batters continued following their shots. Deandra Dottin launched with an inverse sweep, but a wild cut through the line, Kerr, brought her fall, with Yastika Bhatia executing a rapid perplexed.
Kashvee Gautam, like many of his teammates, began a strong debutant of sishing sisody for two four four and then lifted Ismail for a six for a long time, but like the others, flattered by deceiving Matthews.
But the wickts continued to fall at the other end and when Deol left with the score of 103 for 8 in 17, the end was almost. However, Sayali Satghare and Priya Mishra made sure that the giants played their full quota of 20 overs.
For Mumbai, Matthews was innocent in his four -more spell for only 16. She threw 16 knit balls in her spell, just like the noise, while 19 of the 24 balls that Ismail played were points.
The fifties impeccable of Sciver-Brunt in my first victory
Upon entering the tournament, there were questions raised in the form of Sciver-Brunt taking into account that he had relatively quiet ashes. In a matter of two entries, he has put aside the skeptics.
A 121 chase was never going to be discouraging. Matthews began fluently, hitting three four four, but ended up breaking a long jump of tanuja kanwar directly to Deol in the square leg. If the giants entertained any idea of a collapse, Sciver-Brunt closed it quickly.
He launched with a fierce pull ball and was the unidirectional traffic about it. Dottin crashed through the point before Priya Mishra was thrown by the square leg twice in three balls. While Bhatia fell by Mishra to Long-on and Harmanpreet was caught on the front by Kashvee, the Sciver-Brunt was stopped as an immovable force.
It was not only power, but also precision and the ability to find spaces at will to keep Sciver-Brunt running. He added a 45 racing stand with Kerr in 38 balls to take Mumbai closer. He took 34 balls to collect his fifty before falling only seven races of the target. G Kamalini, in debut, hit his first ball for four, while Sajana finished the game depositing Dottin over half of the medium to give Mumbai his first WPL 2025 victory.
The victory has taken Mumbai to second place in the points table, while the NRR of the giants has received a blow, although they are in third place.
Ashish Pant is a deputy with Essecricinfo
