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WPL 2023:The Eliminator match of Women’s Premier League (WPL) was played between Mumbai Indians (MI) and UP Warriors (UPW). In this match played at the DY Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai, Mumbai Indians defeated UP Warriors by a huge margin of 70 runs with the help of a brilliant hat-trick by fast bowler Issy Wong.
UP Warriors have won the toss and decided to bowl first. Mumbai scored 182 runs for four wickets in 20 overs. In response, the UP team was reduced to 110 runs in 17.4 overs. Issy Wong took four wickets for 15 runs in four overs. With this, she became the first player to take a hat-trick in the Women’s Premier League.
Kiran Navagire fought alone for UP. She was dismissed after scoring 43 runs off 27 balls. He did not get any support from the other end. Deepti Sharma 16, Grace Harris 14 and Alyssa Healy were dismissed after scoring 11 runs.
Grace Harris’s bat also did not work in the important match. She got out after scoring 14 runs off 12 balls. She was caught by Issy Wong off Natalie Seaver Brunt. After this Navagire started batting furiously from one side. But Issy Wong created history in her last over. Taking a hat-trick, he put UP on the back foot. Wong is the first bowler to take a hat-trick in the WPL. Wong gave Mumbai a big breakthrough by dismissing Kiran Navagire on the second ball of the 13th over. Navagire was becoming a threat to the team. He scored 43 runs off 27 balls. During this, he hit four fours and three sixes. Navagiro was caught by Natalie Siever. After his dismissal, Issy Wong clean bowled Simran Sheikh on the third ball. He then completed his hat-trick by clean bowling Sophie Ecclestone on the fourth ball.
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. We have young girls doing well on the field, we have always spoken about getting some runouts and that was a crucial point in the game.
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.
