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Mumbai Indians' Nat Sciver-Brunt celebrates her period during the Women's Premier League (WPL) 2026 T20 cricket lucifer betwixt Royal Challengers Bangalore and Mumbai Indians, astatine BCA Stadium, successful Vadodara, Gujarat. (PTI Photo)
Mumbai Indians all-rounder Nat Sciver-Brunt made past successful the Women’s Premier League by scoring the tournament’s first-ever period during MI’s lucifer against Royal Challengers Bengaluru connected Monday.Facing the 2024 WPL champions successful a must-win game, Sciver-Brunt scored an unbeaten 100 disconnected 57 balls, hitting 16 fours and 1 six to anchor Mumbai’s innings.
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This was the archetypal period successful WPL history. In the existent season, Sciver-Brunt present leads the tally charts with 319 runs successful six innings astatine an mean of 79.75. Her tally includes 1 period and 3 half-centuries, with a onslaught complaint of implicit 154.She besides became the archetypal batter to people much than 300 runs successful 3 antithetic editions of the WPL.
Her champion play came past year, erstwhile she played a cardinal relation successful Mumbai Indians’ rubric win, scoring 523 runs successful 10 matches astatine an mean of 65.37 and a onslaught complaint of implicit 152, with 5 fifties and a apical people of 80 not out.Overall, Sciver-Brunt has scored 1,346 runs successful 35 WPL matches and innings astatine an mean of 51.76. Her grounds includes 1 period and 11 half-centuries, the astir fifty-plus scores by immoderate batter successful the league.
She has besides won 2 WPL titles and was named Player of the Tournament past season.With 5 period partnerships, Sciver-Brunt has been progressive successful much 100-run stands than immoderate different batter successful WPL history. Meg Lanning, Shafali Verma, Smriti Mandhana and Hayley Matthews travel with 4 each.In the match, RCB chose to tract first. After an aboriginal wicket, Sciver-Brunt and Hayley Matthews added 131 runs for the 2nd wicket.
Matthews scored 56 disconnected 39 balls, including 9 fours. MI skipper Harmanpreet Kaur contributed 20 disconnected 12 balls, with 2 fours and a six, successful a 42-run stand.Mumbai Indians finished connected 199 for four. For RCB, Lauren Bell was the astir palmy bowler, taking 2 wickets for 21 runs successful 4 overs.Mumbai Indians defeated Royal Challengers Bengaluru by 15 runs to stay successful contention for Women's Premier League play-offs.
