Mumbai Indians vs Gujarat Giants
In the 19th match of WPL 2025, Mumbai Indians, led by Harmanpreet Kaur, faced Ashley Gardner’s Gujarat giants. Mumbai won by 9 runs in this match. This is Mumbai’s sixth consecutive win against Gujarat. The Mumbai team has not lost a single match against Gujarat in this league. Batting first, Mumbai Indians scored 179 runs for six wickets in 20 overs. But in front of the brilliant bowling of Mumbai Indians, the team could score 170 runs for nine wickets in the scheduled 20 overs.
Harmanpreet Kaur played half -century innings
Mumbai did not have a good start to bat first, Amelia Kerr was run out in the third over. He scored five runs off nine balls with the help of a four. After this, Haley Mathews, along with the Nat Sewer Brant, took over the innings and did not allow any other damage until the powerplay was over. Haley was dismissed for 27 runs. This was followed by a 50+ run partnership for the third wicket between Harmanpreet and Brant. Brant was dismissed by 38 runs with the help of six fours off 31 balls. At the same time, Harmanpreet scored 53 runs in 33 balls with the help of 9 fours. Finally, Yastika Bhatia contributed 13 to Mumbai, while Sajeevan Sajna remained unbeaten on 11 runs. Talking about the bowling of Gujarat, Tanuja Kanwar, Kashvi Gautam, Priya Mishra and Ashley Gardner all took 1-1 wickets.
Bharti Phulmali’s stormy innings went waste
Talking about the batting of Gujarat, he did not start well during the run chase. In the fourth over, the team got the first setback on the score of 15 when Bath Muni was dismissed for 7 runs. After this, Kashvi Gautam and Harleen Deol tried to handle the innings but they could not succeed in it. Kashvi became 10 in 14 balls, while Harleen Deol went on scoring 24 runs in 17 balls. Captain Ashley Gardner could not even open his account in this match. At one time, the Gujarat team had lost 6 wickets by a score of 92. It seemed that the team would soon be all out from here. But then Bharti Phulmali, playing a stormy innings of 61 runs in 25 balls, overturned the match. He hit 8 fours and 4 sixes during his innings. After this innings of Bharti, there was hopes of victory for Gujarat, but they did not get any support from the other end and after batting 20 overs, only 170 runs could be scored at the loss of 9 wickets. Amelia Kerr took the most 3 wickets in bowling for Mumbai. At the same time, Shabnam Ismail and Haley Mathews got 2-2 wickets.
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