Lucknow
UP Warriors, who are struggling with poor form, will have to win against UP Warriors on Thursday in the Women’s Premier League. UP Warriors’ hopes of reaching the playoffs, which have lost two consecutive matches, are on this match. He was defeated by a big margin by Gujarat Giant 4 in the last match at Ekana Stadium. The 81 -run defeat pushed him at the bottom of the table and also dropped the runrate. Now only two matches are left and they have to avoid the third consecutive defeat.
In the first match of WPL in Lucknow, Beth Muni batted brilliantly to bring Gujarat giant to 186 runs for five wickets, the third highest score of this session. In response, Warriors batsmen failed completely on the batsmen’s helpful pitch. His use of sending Georgia Wol at number three also failed and within ten overs, the team lost six wickets for 48 runs. Only one of the top six batsmen could reach double digits. West Indies’ Chiinale Henry scored 28 runs in 14 balls and took the team beyond hundred runs but the entire team was dismissed for 105 runs.
Henry has so far scored 138 runs at a strike rate of more than 209 in this session and has managed to score fast. The UP team can send Vol again to start the innings. The role of Grass Harris will be important in the middle order. Captain Deepti Sharma’s bat has been still silent who will have to lead the front.
The position of Mumbai Indians is better, which ranks third with six points. He has a chance to reach the top and make it directly in the final. In WPL, the top team reaches the finals directly while the second and third place team plays eliminators.
Mumbai still have to play three more matches, so their eyes will be on reaching the top. For this, captain Harmanpreet Kaur will have to convert a good start into a big innings. Net Skiver Brant will also have to bring continuity in performance.
Teams:
UP Warriors: Deepti Sharma (Captain), Anjali Sarwani, Chamari Athapathu, Uma Chhetri, Sophie Eklestone, Rajeshwari Gaekwad, Arushi Goyal, Kranti Gaur, Grace Harris, Chinese Henry, Poonam Khemnar, Alana King, Tahlia Macgra, Kiran Navagire, Shweta Sahravat, Shweta Salahtan, Gauhta Salahtan Vrinda.
Mumbai Indians: Harmanpreet Kaur (Captain), Yastika Bhatia, Nadin de Clarke, Sanskriti Gupta, Sika Ishaq, Shabnim Ismail, Jistimani Kalita, G. Kamalini, Amandeep Kaur, Amanjot Kaur, Satyamurthy Kirtana, Amelia Ker, Akshita Maheshwari, Heli Mathews, Sajivan Sajna, Nat Sisodia and Cloe Tryon.
Match time: 7.30 pm.
