🏏WPL 2024: Match 3: Gujarat Giants W vs Mumbai Indians W🏏

🏏WPL 2024: Match 3: Gujarat Giants W vs Mumbai Indians W at Bengaluru on 25/02/2024 at 7:30 PM IST🏏

Defending champions Mumbai Indians will play their second WPL 2024 match against the Gujarat Giants tonight (February 25) at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium. The match will begin at 7:30 PM IST.

The Mumbai Indians started the new season on a winning note against the Delhi Capitals on Friday. Sajeevan Sajana's last-ball six helped the Mumbai-based franchise register a four-wicket win against the Capitals.

The Gujarat Giants, meanwhile, will play their first match of WPL 2024 tonight. The Giants suffered two big defeats in their two meetings against the Mumbai Indians last season. MI will be keen to maintain that dominance this year.

Gujarat Giants Women vs Mumbai Indians Women Pitch Report

The Bengaluru wicket has produced a couple of nail-biting encounters thus far this season. Expect a similar pitch tonight at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, with the batters having a field day at the office.

Gujarat Giants Women vs Mumbai Indians Women Weather Forecast

There is no chance of rain during the match hours in Bengaluru tonight. The skies will be clear with periodic clouds, with the temperature expected to be in the range of 24 degrees Celsius. Humidity levels will hover around 73%.

Gujarat Giants Women vs Mumbai Indians Women Match Prediction

Mumbai Indians bulldozed the Gujarat Giants twice in the previous edition of the Women's Premier League. Considering how MI outplayed the Giants in WPL 2023, the Mumbai-based franchise will start as the favorites to win tonight. Fans can expect a closer contest tonight, but Mumbai should take the two points home.

GUJ-W vs MUM-W Prediction Picks:

Wicketkeepers: Beth Mooney, Yastika Bhatia

Batters: Harmanpreet Kaur, Laura Wolvaardt, Phoebe Litchfield

All-rounders: Hayley Matthews, Nat Sciver-Brunt, Amelia Kerr, Ashleigh Gardner

Bowlers: Shabnim Ismail, Saika Ishaque

Gujarat Giants (GG) will begin their Women’s Premier League (WPL) 2024 campaign with a match against defending champions Mumbai Indians (MI) at the M.Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru on Sunday, February 25. This will be the third match of WPL 2024. The first two games of the edition produced last-ball thrillers, with MI beating Delhi Capitals (DC) in game one and Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) getting the better of UP Warriorz in Match 2.

Gujarat Giants had a forgettable WPL 2023 campaign. They finished last in the points table, with only two wins and six losses from eight matches. GG began their campaign last season as well with a match against Mumbai Indians at the Dr DY Patil Sports Academy in Navi Mumbai. Sent into bat, Mumbai Indians put up 207/5 on the board and then knocked over Gujarat for 64 in 15.1 overs.

GG could never recover from the setback and ended up losing five of their next seven matches. While they had a poor campaign last year, they will be keen to put things right this time. On that note, we analyze three reasons why Gujarat Giants are the dark horses for WPL 2024.

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This is GG's campaign opener and MI will be playing in their second fixture, after having defeated Delhi Capitals in the season opener. Captained by Beth Mooney, Gujarat will be aiming to overcome their demons from the inaugural season. Last season, they finished bottom of the standings with two wins in eight matches, and also lost Mooney in the first match of the season, which was also against MI. They lost the opener by 143 runs and never really recovered.

MI sealed a thrilling win against DC in the opener, clinching victory by four wickets. Chasing 172, MI had to rely on a last-ball six by S Sajana as they reached 173/6. They also saw sizzling half-centuries from Yastika Bhatia and skipper Harmanpreet Kaur.

Squads:

Gujarat Giants Squad: Beth Mooney(w/c), Laura Wolvaardt, Harleen Deol, Phoebe Litchfield, Ashleigh Gardner, Veda Krishnamurthy, Dayalan Hemalatha, Sneh Rana, Tanuja Kanwar, Meghna Singh, Mannat Kashyap, Shabnam Md Shakil, Priya Mishra, Trisha Poojitha, Kashvee Gautam, Tarannum Pathan, Kathryn Bryce, Lauren Cheatle

Mumbai Indians Women Squad: Hayley Matthews, Yastika Bhatia(w), Nat Sciver-Brunt, Harmanpreet Kaur(c), Amelia Kerr, Pooja Vastrakar, Amanjot Kaur, S Sajana, Shabnim Ismail, Keerthana Balakrishnan, Saika Ishaque, Chloe Tryon, Fatima Jaffer, Issy Wong, Humaira Kazi, Jintimani Kalita, Priyanka Bala, Amandeep Kaur

Defending champions Mumbai Indians launched their WPL 2024 campaign with a nerve-shredding win over Delhi Capitals earlier this week. Needing five runs to win off the final delivery in Bengaluru, S Sajana smashed a six to seal a six-wicket win.

The Harmanpreet Kaur-led unit now runs into Gujarat Giants who will be playing in their first game of the season.

Gujarat Giants vs Mumbai Indians head-to-head in WPL

Matched Played - 2

Gujarat Giants Won - 0

Mumbai Indians Won - 2

In previous season, Giants face heavy defeats from Mumbai. In the first match, MI beat GG by 143 runs while in the second, Mumbai emerged victorious by 55 runs in WPL 2023.