🏏WPL 2023: UP Warriorz W vs Mumbai Indians Women : Match 10🏏 - Page 2

Originally posted by: Viswasruti

Yes, there will be a guessing game like last year and expecting you to participate .⭐️

Most probably, Mumbai Indians W will win this coveted maiden cup. ⭐️

MI?? Nice.

With UP Warriorz thrashing Royal Challengers Bangalore in their last game, it will be interesting to see Mumbai Indians playing against another team full of confidence.

If UP Warriorz can make a good start in this match then they will have a chance but if Mumbai Indians get on top early then they are very unlikely to reduce their intensity.

Mumbai Indians have a very good batting line-up and arguably the best bowling attack in the tournament. We expect UP Warriorz to have some good moments but we are backing Mumbai Indians to win again.

Mumbai Indians Women have been on a roll in Women's Premier League as they have won three games quite convincingly. With 6 points and a healthy net run rate of +4.228, they are placed on the top spot in the points table. And today they will take on UP Warriorz at the Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai. With the crowd support behind the Women in Blue, they have brushed aside sides one after another and they'll be looking forward to replicating the same even today. The Warriorz have won a couple of games as well, but will they be able to overcome the Mumbai challenge?

UP Warriorz have won the toss and chose to bat first. Healy confirms that Ismail is replacing Harris.

Looks like Grace Harris is unwell, which means Shabnim Ismail could be back in the XI for Warriorz.

Harmanpreet: We are looking for a good game, they did well in the previous game. Pooja is not playing.

Alyssa Healy: We are going to have a bat. The teams have put up big totals, if we can do that, we will be able to restrict them. Ismail comes in for Harris. We executed well with bat and ball, we have confidence. I think we are enjoying our cricket and our company.

UP Warriorz have won the toss and have opted to bat

Let me bask in Virat's glorious century today. ❤️

Playing XIs:

Mumbai: Yastika, Matthews, Sciver-Brunt, Harmanpreet, Kerr, Gujjar, Wong, Kazi, Amanjot, Kalita, Ishaque.

Warriorz: Vaidya, Healy, Sehrawat, Navgire, McGrath, Deepti, Ismail, Shaikh, Ecclestone, Sarvani, Gayakwad.

Suds tells me that: "Ahead of the start of the WPL, Harmanpreet spoke highly of batter Dhara Gujjar, who top-scored for Bengal in the Senior Women's T20 Trophy. She picked Gujjar as one of the players to look forward to from the Mumbai Indians squad. Did well in the two intra-squad warm-up games as both head coach Charlotte Edwards and Harmanpreet alluded to."

Mustafa Moudi: "Seems like UPW is using odd-even rule for Harris and Ismail. Harris plays Odd matches and Ismail will get Even matches !!"

Jon Lewis, UP Warriorz Head coach: Our team is going well, I think they are really gelling well as a group. Getting to know each other as people, which is such a big task in such a short span of time. They are feeling relaxed and feeling confident going into this game. Domestic players are incredibly skillful and incredibly talented.

There's a lot of space for them to grow and get better, which is why this competition has been put together. You might not see amazing performances from them in the really short term, but in the long term, there's incredible talent in this country, and I am expecting big things in the future. You got to think about the team your playing against, and what are your strengths. It's a very small competition in terms of the number of teams involved as we match up against the same team pretty quickly. You learn by watching other teams. We have been relaxing between the games, it's important. The girls played some golf yesterday. Lisa Sthalekar (mentor) has been great, you can see her energy on the TV, and she is a good people connector. She's connecting the Indian local players to the international stars, I think she has done a great job.

Charlotte Edwards, MI Head coach: They (openers) batted really well the other night, their partnership has been vitally important. Yastika is coming into her own now, we want her to go out there with a licence to play with that left-hand, right-hand combination with Hayley (Mathews) who has been in wonderful form. We are planning for each game, and not taking anything for granted, because in T20s things can shift pretty quickly.

For me it's about picking the best team for each individual game and hopefully we have enough wins to get to that final stage. The pitches have been fantastic, there have been a lot of runs on show, but at the DY Patil if you bowl well, you have got the rewards. Really proud of our bowling unit as we have managed to take wickets in the powerplay. Hopefully we'll continue to do that tonight. Harmanpreet has been fantastic behind the scenes, she has worked really closely with the senior players as well. It's been nice to see them all watch talk about the game. It's obviously been very impressive.