Rahul Tiwari
khelja|19-02-2025
The team of Mumbai Indians has opened their victory account in Women's Premier League 2025. The 5th match of the Women's Premier League 2025 was played between the Gujarat giants and the teams of Mumbai Indians at the Kotambi Stadium in Vadodara. In this match, Mumbai Indians won unilaterally and retained their dominance on the Gujarat team. Earlier, the Mumbai team had to face defeat against Delhi in their initial match. However, Mumbai has returned to the victory track.
Mumbai Indians captain Harmanpreet Kaur won the toss in the match and decided to bowl. Which once again proved right. So far this season, the first bowling teams have dominated and something similar happened in this match. Batting first, the team of Gujarat giants could score 120 runs in 20 overs and was all out. During this, Harleen Deol scored the highest 32 runs. Apart from him, no batsman could cross the 20 -run mark.
Haley Mathews, on the other hand, was Mumbai's most successful bowler. Haley Mathews spent only 16 runs in 4 overs and made 3 batsmen their victims. At the same time, Amelia Kerr and Nat Cyre-Brant managed to take 2-2 wickets. Shabnim Ismail also took a wicket.
Chasing a target of 121 runs, NAT Cyre-Bunt played a match winning innings for Mumbai Indians. Nate Cyver-Bunt scored 57 runs off 39 balls with the help of 11 fours. This is the second consecutive half-century of Nat Cyver-Brant in this season. Earlier, he also played a half -century innings in the initial match. At the same time, Haley Mathews contributed 17 runs and Amelia Kerr contributed 19 runs and, due to which Mumbai achieved the target in 16.1 overs at the loss of 5 wickets. This is Mumbai's 5th win against Gujarat. That is, in the Women's Premier League, the Gujarat team has not been able to beat Mumbai Indians even once.