Isabel Wong’s hat-trick and Nate Siver Brunt’s stormy unbeaten half-century helped Mumbai Indians team reach the final of the Women’s Premier League. In the eliminator match played on Friday, Mumbai Indians easily defeated UP Warriors by 73 runs and made it to the finals. Now in the final on Sunday, Mumbai Indians will face Delhi Capitals.
Chasing the target of 183 runs, the first three batters of the UP Warriors team had returned to the pavilion only for 21. The team of UP Warriors could never recover from this initial setback.
The first wicket was dismissed as Shweta Sehrawat (1 run) on the last ball of the second over. Captain Alyssa Healy also returned to the pavilion after scoring 11 runs off six balls. Healy was dismissed by Isabel Wong.
When UP had 21 runs on the scoreboard, Talia Magra (7) was run out. Although after this, Kiran Navagire and Grace Harris started playing a bit cautiously but Harris was dismissed in the eighth over.
During her batting, Navagire kept hitting good shots and took the team’s score to 84 runs. On this score, Navagire got out after scoring 43 runs in 27 balls. Navagire wanted to hit Wong’s ball over mid-wicket but Nate Siever caught Brunt.
From here, Wong turned the match and took the wickets of Simran Sheikh and Sophie Ecclestone in the next two balls to take a hat-trick in the match.
England’s 20-year-old Wong has also become the first female cricketer to take a hat-trick in the Women’s Premier League. Wong took four wickets for 15 runs in her four overs and contributed a lot in defeating UP Warriors.
Earlier, UP Warriors won the toss and put Mumbai to bat first.
The Mumbai Indians batter Nate Siever Brunt scored an unbeaten 72 off 38 balls with the help of 9 fours and 2 sixes. And in the last over, Pooja Vastrakar scored 11 runs in 4 balls.
Mumbai scored 182 runs in 20 overs. Nate Siever Brunt, who played the most unbeaten innings of 72 runs for Mumbai in the match, was adjudged the player of the match.
