🏏WPL 2024: Match 14: UP W vs MI W at Delhi 🏏 - Page 9

Nat Sciver-Brunt, Player of the Match: (On their performance) Very happy. We wanted to put some things right from the last game. We probably did not get off to the best of starts. To assess the conditions and then get that total, it was very good. (On what led to the early wickets) We knew it was going to be a bit low but you're not really sure until you play on it. Instinct takes over sometimes and makes you take square options. It is such a quick outfield, as soon as it goes past the ring, it races away. (On her back-foot play) I like playing on the back foot and that has been a strength of mine (for a while). (On the slower ball that bowled Khemnar) Very happy with that. That is a change-up I have been working on to bowl consistently. Happy with it. Getting a couple of wickets at that point was a bonus. Really happy to restrict them to that total and help our NRR.

Harmanpreet Kaur, Mumbai Indians captain: While batting, we initially thought we were short. But when they came to bat, we figured out that we actually managed very well (with the bat). The partnership (between me and Sciver-Brunt) was the key. She batted really well today. She was playing her shots and I was just rotating strike. Amelia also contributed really well. They bowled well, did not give us anything easily. When we were batting, we knew that there was something in the pitch. I told them (my teammates) it was not a big total on the board but that we could manage well, if we vary the pace and bowl at the stumps. (On Saika Ishaque) Saika is smart, she knows what to do. (On the chat before the Navgire wicket) Whenever she is going to bowl a yorker, she has to bowl with her full pace. I was telling her if she has to bowl that, she has to go all-out.

A fairly one-sided game, and that is now how it seemed at the half-way stage. This match becoming a procession was all down to the Mumbai Indians. Ismail lit up the second innings with a fiery spell, which included a contender for ball of the tournament to Healy. Ishaque was similarly impressive, picking up three wickets and hoodwinking the batters with her flight and guile. The rest of the bowlers chipped in too, and ensured that the Warriorz could not generate momentum at any stage of the innings.

Speaking of the Warriorz, they were set back early and could never recover. They seemed too reliant on their overseas batting contingent again. Healy perished inside the powerplay, as did Athapaththu. Harris was 0 off 14 at one point, and that perhaps summed up their run-chase. Deepti did get a half-century but that was well after the game had gone by.

Congratulations to MI for winning the match.

Congratulations to Nat Sciver-Brunt for winning the PoTM award.

Cheers..

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Congratulations to the Mumbai Indians for their comfortable victory.

Thank you Prizi and Soni for the score updates and other details regarding the match.

Today's Match Details:

Delhi Capitals Women vs UP Warriorz, 15th Match

Series: Womens Premier League 2024

Venue: Arun Jaitley Stadium, Delhi

Date & Time: Mar 08, 07:30 PM LOCAL

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