WPL 2025: Mumbai Indians returned to win, Gujarat giants dominated

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Last updated:February 18, 2025, 23:30 IST

Mumbai Indians Women First Wins at WPL 2025: Due to the strong performance of Heli Mathews and Natali Sear Brant, Mumbai Indians registered the first win in the Women’s Premier League 2025.

Natalie Sear Brant took the first 2 wickets and then fifty.

Vadodara Due to the strong performance of Haley Mathews and Natalie Sear Brant, Mumbai Indians won the first win in the Women’s Premier League 2025. Mumbai Indians Woman, playing under the captaincy of Harmanpreet Kaur, defeated Gujarat giants by 5 wickets on Tuesday. This is the fifth consecutive win of Mumbai Indians against Gujarat giants. Mumbai Indians, chasing the target of 121 runs of Gujarat giants, won 122 for 5 wickets in 16.1 overs. For this, England’s Nat Sear scored the highest 57 runs in 39 balls with the help of 11 fours.

The team of Gujarat giants was earlier piled up for 120 runs in 20 overs in front of Haley Mathews (three wickets for 16 wickets), Amelia Ker (22 wickets) and Nat Skifer (two for 26) (two wickets). Harleen Deol (32 runs) was the top scorer for Gujarat. Apart from her, only Keshavi Gautam (20) touched the 20 -run figure.

Mumbai Indians, who came out to chase the target, made a cautious start by scoring 37 runs for one wicket in the powerplay. Mathews opened the account with a fours on Ashley Gardner (17). He also hit two fours on Tanuja Kanwar but caught Harleen in this over. Then Natani Sear hit Tanuja as soon as he came and then Dianndra Dotin also took the ball to the boundary. He also hit two fours on Priya Mishra.

Priya gave a second blow to Mumbai by catching Yastika Bhatia (08) at the hands of Laura Volvart. Captain Harmanpreet Kaur was also dismissed after scoring just four runs. After this, Natani Sear got a great partner as Amelia (19). Sivaar completed his half -century in 33 balls with two fours off Ashley Gardner in the 14th over and a century of the team’s runs.

Natalie Sear was dismissed by Keshavi’s ball a while after this. Mumbai Indians needed 17 runs to win in the last five overs. Priya Mishra (two wickets for 40 runs) bowled Sivar but Sajeevan Sajna (10 not out) and G. Kamalini (04 not out) gave the team victory.

Earlier, Mumbai captain Harmanpreet won the toss and decided to bowl first. His bowlers proved this decision to be correct by taking four wickets of Gujarat giants by 28 runs in Powerplay. NAT SEIR BRONT caught Bath Muni (01) on the second ball at the second over at the hands of Sanskriti Gupta on Short Third Man. Opener Laura Volvart (04) hit Shabnim Ismail’s first four of the innings but caught Sajeevan Sajna in the next over of this fast bowler.

Matthews sent Dylan Hemlata (09) to the pavilion, while Sear Bunt caught Ashley Gardner (10) at the hands of Sajna and gave the fourth blow to the Gujarat giants on the last ball of the powerplay. Diandra Dotin (07) hit Amelia Kerr, but in the next over of this spinner, wicketkeeper Yastika Bhatia stumped, causing Gujarat giants to score 43 runs for five wickets.

Keshavi Gautam (20) completed the half-century of the team in the 10th over with two fours on Parunika Sisodia, a member of the under-19 T20 World Cup winning team of India. Keshavi hit the first six of the innings on Long on on Shabnim but caught the wicketkeeper Yastika off Mathews. Harleen, however, kept one end. He tried to increase the run speed with two fours on Amelia. Simran Sheikh (03), however, caught Amelia off Mathews. Harleen hit a four on Net Sear while Tanuja Kanwar (13) saw Mathews ball to see the boundary.

Tanuja completed a century of the team’s runs in the 17th over with fours on Amanjot but Harleen returned to the pavilion by catching Matthews in this over. Harleen hit four fours in a 31 -ball innings. Amelia got Tanuja caught by culture in the next over. Sayali Satgare (13 not out) hit Amanjot two fours but Priya Mishra (02) was run out on the last ball of the innings.