🏏WPL 2023 - UP Warriorz W vs Mumbai Indians W: Eliminator🏏 - Page 16

Healy: We catch Sciver on 6, the game could be ours. We backed ourselves with ball in hand. Can't comment too much, will probably be fined (the catch from Anjali that was given not out). Anjali claimed it, and it looked good in latest. Our strength in this whole tournament has been we've hung in there. We haven't played our best cricket. I'm really proud of this group. No one was talking about the UP Warriors (as favourites). The two best teams have made it to the final. I'm proud of our group to have a crack. It's not all about lifting the trophy. Some areas we'll need to fix up. What we've got is something special at our franchise. There's so many talented players in our group and Kiran is one of them.

10.43pm: Utter domination from Mumbai Indians, who have advanced to the WPL final with a 72-run win against UP Warriorz. Nat Sciver-Brunt's fifty and Amelia Kerr and Pooja Vastrkarar's handy contributions steered Mumbai to 182 for 4, Issy Wong's four-for rattled Warriorz in the chase. Kiran Navgire hit a 27-ball 43 but it wasn't enough. They needed at least one big partnership but losing four early wickets meant they was no support for Navgire from the other end to keep them going.

UP, on the other hand, were heavily dependent on their Aussie trio of Healy, Tahlia McGrath and Grace Harris in the batting department and all three of them failed to deliver in this game. Kiran Navgire was the only shining light with 43 off 27 balls but with no one to support her, UP just were always behind the game. Earlier with the ball, they leaked plenty of runs at the death and that dropped catch of Natalie Sciver-Brunt when she was on just 6 cost them heavily in the end. They did well to get to the Eliminator though but could not match the class of Mumbai in this game.

Issy Wong: Nat deserves it, she really held the innings together, she batted well and helped us to a big score, so she probably deserves it. It's all a bit surreal, it's been a bit of a whirlwind for the last couple of weeks. Put in a bit of hard yards for the last couple of years in the gym and rewarding to enjoy all of that. Under lights, it swung. The square allows you to keep the swing going even in the later stages of the innings. We knew if we look after the ball, then we can get it to swing. I was just trying to hit the stumps, Soph got the better of last time, I did not want to land in her spoit. She said well bowled, she is a good friend and she is a quality cricketer as well. It's a bit more exciting as you know each other well. The job's not done. You don't enter competitions to make the semi-finals, you enter them to be competitive and try to win it.

Harmanpreet Kaur | MIW captain: We have a decent bowling wicket, we know anyone can come and take wickets. Wongy is always excited to bowl, today she was always there and very happy. She is someone who can take us through any game [on Nat Sciver-Brunt]. We have young girls doing well on the field, we have always spoken about getting some run-outs and that was a crucial point in the game. They have a very positive energy and are happy to have them. They are a very good side and we just want to enjoy the final.

Nat Sciver-Brunt | Player of the Match: The crowd was incredible tonight. The noise when Wongy took the hat-trick was incredible, if we could bottle that energy up and take it, it would be great. The wicket tonight was very nice for batting. We needed a good score on the board to defend it. It was very enjoyable bating out there, surprised myself with a few shots actually. I have said thank you for dropping me. She would usually take those, luck of the draw fortunately. It swung nicely up here, really good fun. Yeah absolutely and really excited to make it to the final and hopefully enjoy yourselves. Hopefully, start on 0 and see how we go from there.

Congratulations to Mumbai for winning the match.👏

Congratulations to Nat Sciver-Brunt for winning the Player of the Match award.👏

Mumbai will meet DC in the finals on 26th.

Cheers..

its finally MI vs DC

as expected

Maza aayega MI ko final haarte hue dekh ke

Originally posted by: la_Reine

Maza aayega MI ko final haarte hue dekh ke