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Beth Mooney’s unbeaten 96 powered Gujarat Giants to a 186/5 complete, resulting in an 81-run victory over UP Warriorz within the Girls’s Premier League. Giants’ bowlers dismantled UPW, who managed solely 105.
Beth Mooney stole the present in opposition to UP Warriors. (Sportzpics Photograph)
Beth Mooney smashed an unbeaten 96 as an all-round Gujarat Giants thrashed UP Warriorz by 81 runs in a one-sided Girls’s Premier League match right here on Monday.
Mooney missed out what may have been the primary century for any participant this WPL season however her 59-ball unbeaten knock with 17 fours powered Gujarat Giants to a formidable 186/5, in opposition to which the hosts crumbled with none resistance.
Chasing a goal of 187, UPW may solely make 105 from 17.1 overs because the Giants climbed up from the fifth spot to the second within the factors desk. UPW, who had been positioned third earlier than the sport, are actually fifth.
UP Warriorz slipped to 36/5 within the eighth over following a disastrous begin and none of their batters may put up any resistance in opposition to the Giants’ bowlers, who wrecked havoc on an under-pressure batting line-up.
Deandra Dottin (2/14) started with two wickets within the opening over, dismissing Kiran Navgire (0) and Georgia Voll (0), whereas Kashvee Gautam (3/11), Meghna Singh (1/21), Tanuja Kanwar (3/17) and Ashleigh Gardner (1/9) chipped in with very important breakthroughs.
UP Warriorz’s prime order was discovered struggling in opposition to the early motion with the brand new ball as lack of sound judgement and approach landed them in hassle, which was adopted by the absence of a fight-back from the center order when the situations had change into comparatively simpler.
Grace Harris, who survived an in depth leg-before attraction early on, struck three fours to make 25 off 30 balls and she or he was the one specialist batter from her facet to be amongst runs.
Not one of the Indian batters within the UP Warriorz’s middle-order may hassle the scorers. Vrinda Dinesh fell for one, skipper Deepti Sharma made six and Shweta Sehrawat scored 5.
Chinelle Henry scored a late 14-ball 28 with three fours and two sixes and Uma Chetry made 17 however their efforts may solely cut back the margin to some extent.
Earlier, Mooney was left stranded on 96 not out as Gujarat Giants scored 186 for 5.
Mooney cracked as many as 17 boundaries from solely 59 balls in her innings however with 10 runs wanted to achieve a triple-digit rating within the final over, she may solely handle 5.
The left-handed Australian batter Mooney consolidated for the Giants with India’s Harleen Deol (45) after an early blow within the type of Dayalan Hemalatha (2), including 101 runs for the second wicket off 68 balls.
Mooney was belligerent on each the edges of the wicket together with her flicks and drives, piercing the sphere with ease.
Deol notched up her highest rating of the season with a 32-ball 45 with six hits to the fence however couldn’t get to the non-public milestone of a half-century.
Sophie Ecclestone (2/34) bowled a vital spell for the hosts UP Warriorz of their first match on the Ekana Stadium, accounting for Deol and the harmful Deandra Dottin (17).
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