The eliminator match was played between UP Warriors and Mumbai Indians at DY Patil Stadium in Mumbai. Batting first, Mumbai scored 182 runs. Sciver-Brunt scored 72, not out. Amelia Kerr scored 29 runs. Sophie Eccleston took two wickets for UP.
For Mumbai, Wong did wonders by taking the first hat trick in the Women’s Premier League in the 13th over. Wong took a total of four wickets. With the magical spell of Wong, Mumbai won the clash and made it into the final of the first season of the WPL. Mumbai Indians will play the final with Delhi Capitals on Sunday.
UP Warriors won the toss and decided to bowl first. Yastika and Mathews got off to a brisk start. Mumbai’s first wicket fell in the form of Yastika. She played an inning of 21 runs. Mathews and Sciver-Brunt got one life each during the match. Mathews could not take advantage of this. She became the victim of Parshvi by scoring 26 runs.
However, Sciver-Brunt brought up his half-century off 26 balls. Captain Harmanpreet also missed out on playing big innings. Eccleston bowled her after scoring 14 runs. Sciver remained unbeaten on 72 off 38 balls. Pooja scored 11 runs off 4 balls. Mumbai has given UP a target of 183 runs to win.
Chasing the target, UP got off to a very poor start. In the second over, Sehrawat (1) was dismissed after scoring 1 run. In the next over, Captain Healy also became the victim of Wong by scoring 11 runs. Tahlia McGrath lost her wicket on a personal score of 7 after hitting a big shot. Grace Harris contributed 14 runs. However, Kiran Navagire played an inning of 43 runs at one end.
Deepti Sharma scored 16 runs. After the dismissal of both, none of the UP batters could even cross the double figure, and the entire UP team got all out on a score of 110.
