Mumbai Indians (MI)’s Natalie Siver-Brunt scored the first century in Women’s Premier League (WPL) history. Batting first in Vadodara on Monday, Mumbai scored 199 runs. Siver-Brunt scored 100 and Hailey Matthews scored 56 runs. Hailey also took 3 wickets in bowling. Bengaluru showed fight, but the team could reach only 184. Hayley-Brunt made a century partnership at the Kotambi Stadium. Mumbai, who came to bat first, lost the wicket of Sajeevan Sajna in the third over itself. She could score only 7 runs. Hayley Matthews then made a century partnership with Nate Siver-Brunt. Hailey was out after scoring 56 runs on 39 balls. Captain Harmanpreet Kaur was out after scoring 20 runs and Amanjot Kaur was out after scoring 4 runs. Amelia Kar remained not out after scoring 1 and Siver-Brunt scored 100 runs. The team scored 199 runs after losing 4 wickets. Lauren Bell took 2 wickets from Bengaluru. Nadine de Klerk and Shreyanka Patil got 1 wicket each. Bad start for Bengaluru: RCB, which started chasing the target of 200 runs, had a very bad start. The team lost 5 wickets for 35 runs. Grace Harris 15, captain Smriti Mandhana 6, Georgia Voll 9, Gautami Nayak 1 and Radha Yadav were out without opening the account. Wicketkeeper Richa Ghosh then along with Nadine de Klerk took the team past 50. De Klerk was out after scoring 28 runs. Arundhati Reddy could score only 14 runs, while Sayali Satghare could not even open the account. Richa tried to take the team closer to the target by scoring a fifty, but the team remained far away from victory. Richa was out after scoring 90 runs, in front of her Shreyanka Patil scored 12 runs on 5 balls. Apart from Hailey Mathews, Shabnim Ismail and Amelia Kar took 2 wickets each for Mumbai. Amanjot Kaur got 1 wicket. Mumbai’s third win: By defeating Bengaluru, Mumbai achieved its third win in 7 matches. The team has lost 4 matches, but reached second position with 6 points. RCB suffered its second consecutive defeat, but the team has already made it to the playoffs with 10 points from the first 5 wins.
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