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Sunday, March 16, 2025

Matthews helps Mumbai Indians maintain dominance over Giants

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Sport Desk
6 days ago
20250311
Mumbai Indians allrounder Hayley Matthews, right, celebrates one of her three wickets against the Gujarat Giants Women.

Mumbai Indians allrounder Hayley Matthews, right, celebrates one of her three wickets against the Gujarat Giants Women.

MUM­BAI, In­dia – Hay­ley Matthews pro­duced yet an­oth­er stel­lar all-around per­for­mance as the Mum­bai In­di­ans Women beat the Gu­jarat Gi­ants yet again, to put them­self in prime po­si­tion to gain an au­to­mat­ic fi­nal berth in the Women’s Pre­mier League (WPL) on Mon­day.

Matthews scored a brisk 27 from 22 balls at the top of the or­der as the Mum­bai In­di­ans post­ed 179 for six from their 20 overs, and then re­turned to take three wick­ets as the Gi­ants were bowled out for 170 to give the home side a nine-run vic­to­ry.

It was the sixth time in six matchups that the Mum­bai In­di­ans de­feat­ed the Gi­ants in the WPL.

Af­ter be­ing sent in to bat, Mum­bai were led by cap­tain Har­man­preet Kaur, who blast­ed 54 from 33 balls, Nat Sciv­er-Brunt made 38 and Aman­jot Kaur hit 27 from 15 balls.

De­an­dra Dot­tin went wick­et­less in her four overs that went for 44 runs.

Matthews then took the key wick­ets of Gi­ants’ cap­tain Ash­leigh Gard­ner for a duck, Sim­ran Shaikh and Priya Mishra with her off spin to end with 3-38 from four overs.

Amelia Kerr took 3-34 while Shab­n­im Islmail fin­ished with 2-17.

Dot­tin made just 10 from 11 balls be­fore be­ing bowled by Kerr.

The re­sult means that if the Mum­bai In­di­ans win their fi­nal pre­lim­i­nary match against the Roy­al Chal­lengers Ben­galu­ru on Tues­day, they will fin­ish top of the ta­ble and book a di­rect spot in the WPL fi­nal.

How­ev­er, if they lose, they will have to face the Gi­ants in an Elim­i­na­tor, with the win­ner play­ing the Del­hi Cap­i­tals Women in the fi­nal.

CMC


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