Hayley Matthews in motion in WPL 2025.© BCCI/Sportzpics
Hayley Matthews adopted up her knock of 77 by selecting 3-31 as Mumbai Indians arrange a title conflict in Women’s Premier League (WPL) 2025 with the Delhi Capitals after beating Gujarat Giants by 47 runs within the Eliminator on the Brabourne Stadium right here on Thursday. After knocks of 77 from Hayley and Nat Sciver-Brunt, together with a panoramic 36 from captain Harmanpreet Kaur, took MI to an enormous 213/4, the West Indies captain shone along with her off-spin bowling to select three wickets, as GG have been bowled out for 166 in 19.2 overs. She additionally obtained good help from Amelia Kerr, who picked two wickets, whereas Nat and Shabnim Ismail have been additionally among the many wickets as they sealed MI’s place in enjoying the summit conflict towards DC on the similar venue on Saturday.
Shabnim struck for Mumbai when Beth Mooney’s exterior edge was pouched by Hayley, shifting to her proper at first slip. Harleen Deol and Danielle Gibson hit 5 boundaries between themselves earlier than the previous was run out by an correct throw from Sanskriti Gupta and Yastika Bhatia, dislodging the stumps in time.
Hayley made a large dent into GG’s already behind-going chase by castling Asheigh Gardner for eight. Despite Danielle and Phoebe Litchfield coping with boundaries, it could not assist in bringing the required run price all the way down to a manageable one for GG.
A robust throw by Amanjot Kaur from deep mid-wicket resulted in Danielle being run out for 34, whereas Phoebe missed a googly from Amelia and was stumped for 31. After a mix-up resulted in Kashvee Gautam’s run out, Bharti Fulmali and Simran Shaikh tried delaying the inevitable with a flurry of boundaries earlier than the previous’s off-stump was knocked down by Hayley.
From there, Amelia, Nat and Hayley took a wicket every to make sure MI made it to their second WPL closing and hold their clear slate towards GG intact in entrance of their residence crowd comprising their staff homeowners and IPL staff counterparts.
Brief scores:
Mumbai Indians 213/4 in 20 overs (Nat Sciver-Brunt 77, Hayley Matthews 77; Danielle Gibson 2-40, Kashvee Gautam 1-30) beat Gujarat Giants 166 in 19.2 overs (Danielle Gibson 34, Phoebe Litchfield 31; Hayley Matthews 3-31, Amelia Kerr 2-28) by 47 runs
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