WPL Live Score, Mumbai Indians vs UP Warriorz: Quick Wickets Leave UPW Struggling in Chase of 128

Time-out. UP Warriorz would welcome it to refresh after an eventful start. They have made 39/3 in 8 overs and the scoreline could’ve been worse if not for three dropped catches. Tahlia McGrath (9*) and Grace Harris (8*) are the two unbeaten batters in the middle. UPW need 89 runs in 72 deliveries with seven wickets remaining.

Grace Harris walks in next and gets off the mark with a boundary – a short delivery cut away for four through backward point. 8 runs and a wicket in the over. UPW 35/3 in 7 overs, chasing 128.

WICKET! That’s a superb take from wicketkeeper Yastika Bhatia. A short delivery down the leg side from Nat Sciver-Brunt and Kiran Navgire goes for a pull shot but instead the ball kisses the glove and Bhatia goes low to her left to take it one-handed. Navgire scored 12. UPW 27/3 in 6.1 overs, chasing 128.

DROPPED! Oh MI fielders are having a nightmare now. Wicketkeeper Yastika Bhatia has dropped a catch of Tahlia McGrath on 0. Issy Wong would have two in two. How costly this would prove?

WICKET! A loud appeal for LBW against Alyssa Healy turned down. Issy Wong is confident. She signals her captain to go for the review. DRS pressed into action. Healy lined up for a flick but missed the shot. No spike on ultraedge and ball tracker says it would have hit the leg-stump. Big wicket for MI. UPW 20/2 in 5.1 overs, chasing 128.

Left-arm spinner Saika Ishaque, who has been displaced as the leading wicket-taker of WPL 2023 by Soophie Ecclestone, comes into the attack. A single from the over. UPW 21/1 in 5 overs, chasing 128.

A productive over for UP Warriorz after a nervy start. Alyssa Healy gets an edge past the short fine leg region for a four and then Kiran Navgire steps out to launch the final delivery from Hayley Matthews over the bowler’s head for a six. 13 runs from the over. UPW 20/1 in 4 overs, chasing 128.

Nat Sciver-Brunt cannot believe her luck. Two catches have been dropped by her fielders off successive deliveries. The first drop was in the deep and it was a sitter as the fielder failed to hold onto the ball that would have sent back UP Warriorz captain back for a duck. And the next drop was at point – another regulation catch – this time Kiran Navgire was the beneficiary on 0. UPW 7/1 in 3 overs, chasing 128.

Hayley Matthews’ first over results in a wicket and a run via wide. Kiran Navgire has walked in at no. 3 to join Alyssa Healy. UPW 2/1 in 2 overs, chasing 128.

WICKET! Wow! Sensational stuff from Mumbai Indians captain Harmanpreet Kaur. Hayley Matthews strikes with her first delivery of the innings. Devika Vaidya went for a drive by going forward but got an outside edge. Harmanpreet was stretched her right hand for a one-handed catch at first slip.  Vaidya scored 1. UPW 1/1 in 1.1 overs, chasing 128.

Nat Sciver-Brunt with a tidy start for Mumbai Indians, keeps UP Warriorz to just a single in the first over. Devika Vaidya has gotten off the mark off the final delivery of the over. UPW 1/0 in 1 over, chasing 128.

Alyssa Healy and Devika Vaidya are out in the middle for UP Warriorz to get their chase of 128 underway. Nat Sciver-Brunt with the new ball for Mumbai Indians. Here we go!

WICKET! A run-out off the final delivery of the over as well. Deepti Sharma hits the bulls eye again to run out Shaika Ishaque (0) who wanted to steal a single but was caught well short at the non-striker’s end. Mumbai Indians have been bowled out for 127 in 20 overs.

WICKET! That’s some excellent thinking from Deepti Sharma. Issy Wong called Jitnimani Kalita for a second run but she said on. Wong persisted and Kalita relented. The throw came to Deepti Sharma at the non-striker’s end up she instead went for the striker’s end where Wong was headed to. A direct hit. Third umpire called into action and Wong hasn’t made her ground. Superb. End of a fine innings – 32 off 19. MI 127/9

Sophie Eccleston showing why she’s the world’s best T20I bowler. Just four singles in her fourth and final over. She finishes with figures of 3/15. MI 116/8 in 19 overs.

WICKET! There goes another one. Deepti Sharma bowls a quick delivery. Dhara Gujjar goes for a slog-sweep, misses the shot and gets bowled. She scored 3. MI 11/8 in 17.5 overs.

WICKET! Stump to stump bowling from Rajeshwari Gayakwad and Humaira Kazi has been cleaned up while going for a slog sweep. This is her second scalp of the innings and Gayakwad finishes her spell. MI 103/7 in 17 overs.

Humaira Kazi goes for a flick and gets herself a couple to bring up MI’s 100 in 16.4 overs.

WICKET! Brilliant from Sophie Ecclestone and Alyssa Healy. This one was bowled down the leg-side as Amanjot Kaur stepped out and Healy does well to take the bails off after the batter gets beaten. Amanjot scored 5. MI 98/6 in 15.5 overs. Time-out.

DROPPED! That’s a shocker. A regulation catch of Issy Wong dropped and worse, the ball trickles away for a four. Wong was on 10.