Chirra Ravikanthreddy (India), Gayathri Venugopalan (India), N Janani (India, TV)
Referee
Varsha Nagre (India)
Toss
Gujarat Giants Women elected to bowl
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Over 17
Runs: 2
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Over 18
Runs: 3
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Over 19
Runs: 7
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Over 20
Runs: 2
All Overs
Player of the Match
Harmanpreet Kaur
51(30)
Player of the Series
Hayley Matthews
Lucky Winner
Analysis
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Updated: 10 Oct 09:19
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So, that is it myself, Karthik Raj as I sign off on behalf of my co-commentators, Pratyush Rohra and Sooryanarayan Sesha. Cricketing action doesn't stop today with an ECL fixture lined up at 12.00 AM. There is also more matches coming up tomorrow with the WPL, PSL, ECL, CWC League 2 all continuing! Until next time, it is a warm good-bye!
Harmanpreet Kaur (Mumbai Indians captain): Credit goes to the support staff and all the team-mates. I think everyone is so positive and they are all ready to do well for the team. I want to give credit to the support staff as they have been helping and trusting the players from Day 1. Yes definitely when we got this team, I was very happy. When you have a combination like that, you are always positive and that helps. When we played the last game on this pitch, found that it won't be easy initially to score runs. Leg-side was short when the medium-pacers were bowling, that's why I went there.
Harmanpreet Kaur has been named as the 'Player of the Match'
Time for the Post-match Presentation!
Nat Sciver-Brunt: (Making the final) No, we've already qualified. Amazing! Looking at the teams, everyone has their strengths. (Taking the new ball) I'm enjoying it. There wasn't much swing tonight. The dew is finally here. It's been good to open the bowling and put pressure on the batters from the start. (Batting getting tested) In-form batters is good in the competitoon but it's good to get other people out in the middle to get used to the conditions. Today was tricky but we did well in the end. (Talk in the dressing room) I guess we're just trying to be consistent. We're performing well and we just want to try and take each game as it comes. Not to be too complacement. We're doing well and playing with heart. (Moving out from CCI to DY Patil) It's a little bit of a different surface. The seamers seem to enjoy it. We'll see when we get there and take it from there.
Sneh Rana (Gujarat Giants captain): I'm proud of the girls. To restrict MI to under 160 was commendable but it wasn't enough. We restricted them early and it was a chasable score, but again. (Majority of dismissals being lbw) I think the batters need to focus on playing through the line. We just need two good partnerships in our batting and we would have got through. She (Harleen) was fantastic tonight. She took a great catch and was great in the field. Good job, Harleen! I already mentioned that we need partnerships to sail through. I'm sure we will work on it.
So, a very quiet end to the game with Mumbai Indians registering a massive 55-run victory. With this, Mumbai have five victories from five matches to top the points table by a massive margin and they also become the first team to qualify for the play-offs! The table-toppers set up the match with an impressive batting performance as they posted 162-8.
Defending 163, the start couldn't have been better for Mumbai as Nat-Sciver Brunt got Sophia Dunkley trapped in front off the very first delivery. Sabbineni Meghana and Harleen Deol looked to stitch a partnership but they couldn't match up to the asking rate during the Powerplay. The task only got tougher in the sixth over as Hayley Matthews removed Meghana and Sutherland in quick succession. A few overs later, Issy Wong dismissed Harleen Deol LBW with a superb slower ball. Ash Gardner was the next to go as Jintimani Kalita pulled off a cracking catch off Amelia Kerr's bowling in the tenth over.
From there on, the chase went nowhere while Dayalan Hemalatha holed out to long-off courtesy Kerr's bowling in the 12th over. The skipper Sneh Rana tried to fight hard with the bat but her 20-run knock was brought to an end by the prolific Nat Sciver-Brunt. Nat added another with Harmanpreet Kaur coming up a superb low catch to send back Kim Garth. In the end, Hayley Matthews also got herself a three-fer by dismissing Tanuja Kanwar while the duo of Sushma Verma and Mansi Joshi batted out the overs!
20
overs
107/9score
0
1
0
0
1
0
runs
Sushma Verma*
18(19)
Mansi Joshi
7(9)
Saika Ishaque
0/20
19.6 Saika Ishaque to Sushma Verma, on the good length outside the off-stump. Sushma chops it to cover, no run. It's the first time Saika Ishaque hasn't taken a wicket in a game during this tournament, but it's still MI's day. After five wins in five games, the Mumbai Indians seal their qualification for the finals!
19.5 Saika Ishaque to Mansi Joshi, sliding into the pads on this occasion. Worked off the pads for a single through square leg
19.4 Saika Ishaque to Mansi Joshi, tossed up on the good length at the middle stump. Mansi compactly blocks it out, no run
19.3 Saika Ishaque to Mansi Joshi, floated on the good length outside off. Pushed into the covers but there's no run there, no run
19.2 Saika Ishaque to Sushma Verma, into the pitch outside the off-stump. Chopped to extra cover where Harmanpreet allows a single to be taken
19.1 Saika Ishaque to Sushma Verma, into the pitch wide outside the off-stump. Sushma chops it to cover, no run
Mansi Joshi and Sushma Verma seem to be just getting some batting practice under the bag. The Gujarat Giants will be very disappointed with this batting effort overall!
19
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105/9score
1
0
1
1
4
0
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Mansi Joshi*
6(6)
Sushma Verma
17(16)
Issy Wong
1/19
18.6 Issy Wong to Mansi Joshi, slower one at the back of a length, much straighter this time. Mansi nudges it into the leg-side, no run
18.5 Issy Wong to Mansi Joshi, FOUR! Back of a length slower one outside the off-stump. Mansi throws her hands at it to slice it away through backward point. Matthews was in a race with the ball with the latter winning the race
18.4 Issy Wong to Sushma Verma, another short delivery that's been pulled away to deep mid-wicket for another single
18.3 Issy Wong to Mansi Joshi, banged it in short this time. Mansi crunches her pull to deep mid-wicket to bring up the 100 for Gujarat Giants
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Sushma Verma
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Saika Ishaque
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