The 11th match of WPL 2025 was played between Mumbai Indians and UP Warriors at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium on Wednesday. In this match, Mumbai Indians defeated UP Warriors by 8 wickets. With this win, Mumbai's team has reached the top of the points table.
For Mumbai, Nat Sciver-Brunt once again played an unbeaten innings of 75 runs, performing brilliant batting. At the same time, the bowling was also strong. Nat also took three wickets for 18 runs. This was his best bowling performance in the WPL. In front of Mumbai's deadly bowling, UP Warriors could score 142 runs losing 9 wickets.
Chasing 143 runs, Hayley Matthews also batted well with Nat Sciver-Brunt for Mumbai Indians. Scored 59 runs off 50 balls and the duo shared a match-winning partnership of 133 runs for the second wicket. However, the run-chase Mumbai had a slow start, but Nat and Hayley's partnership gave an easy win against UP.
UP Warriors who were struggling in the match with a very small total, they got Mumbai's first wicket within 6 runs. Yastika Bhatia was out off Deepti Sharma. The UP team felt that if they get one or two wickets from here, the match can be controlled. Mumbai also played according to their strategy and put 33 runs on the board without taking any risk in the power play.
Hayley Matthews and Nat Sciver-Brunt were cracking down on the UP bowlers. There was a partnership of more than 100 runs.
After completing his half-century off 45 balls, Healy hit fours off two consecutive balls from Grace. A total of 22 runs came in the 16th over.
Although Healy fell victim to Sophie on 59, Harmanpreet Kaur did the rest to give Mumbai an easy win.
Brief Scores:
UP Warriors 142/9 in 20 overs (Grace Harris 45, Vrinda Dinesh 33; Nat Sciver-Brunt 3-18, Sanskriti Gupta 2-11) vs Mumbai Indians 143/2 in 17 overs (Nat Sciver-Brunt 75 not out, Hayley Matthews 59; Deepti Sharma 1-25, Sophie Ecclestone 1-29)
--IANS