News Update
Tezzbuzz|17-02-2025
Gujarat giants finally won their first win in the Women's Premier League 2025 (WPL 2025). Gujarat, captained by Ashley Gardner, defeated UP Warriors by six wickets in the third match at Kotambi Stadium in Vadodara on Sunday, 16 February. After being called to bat first, Warriors scored 143/9 in their scheduled 20 overs. In response, Gujarat won its first win this season by chasing the target in 18 overs.
In Gujarat's victory, captain Ashle Gardner played an important role and won his team with his all -round game. He scored his second consecutive half -century this season. Gardner scored 52 runs from 32 balls as well as two wickets from the ball. At the same time, with the ball, Priya Mishra also left no stone unturned to rob the fair and took three wickets.
Two out of these three wickets, he cracked within three balls in a single over. Priya first lbw the UP batsman Tahlia McGrath on the third ball of the 11th over and then bowled a clean bold by the dangerous batsman Grace Harris of UP on the fifth ball of the over. After losing two wickets in three balls, the UP team came completely on the backfoot and Gujarat caught up in the match.
After winning the toss in this match, Gujarat decided to bowl first and the Gujarat bowlers got Kiran Navgire (15 runs off 8 balls) and Vrinda Dinesh (6 runs in 8 balls) in the third over and correct their captain's decision by dismissing them in the third over. borne out. After the dismissal of both the openers, captain Deepti Sharma and Uma Chhetri shared a 51 -run partnership for the third wicket. Deepti scored 39 runs in 27 balls before being dismissed, while Chhetri scored a slow innings of 24 runs in 27 balls. In this way, the UP team scored 143 runs losing 9 wickets in 20 overs. Priya Mishra took the highest 3 wickets for Gujarat.
The Gujarat team, chasing a small target, lost their opening two wickets quickly, but after that captain Ashley Gardner made this victory easy with the rest of the batsmen and the team won the match with two overs left.