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Harmanpreeet Kaur, Amanjot Kaur
NEW DELHI: Two Kaurs, a Carey , and a fistful of dropped catches – that was each Mumbai Indians needed to pursuit down Gujarat Giants’ 193 and unafraid a seven-wicket triumph astatine the DY Patil Stadium successful Navi Mumbai. Mumbai Indians comfortably achieved the people successful the sixth lucifer of the Women’s Premier League 2026 connected Tuesday, leaving Ashleigh Gardner’s Gujarat Giants short.Mumbai Indians chased down Gujarat Giants’ people with 7 wickets successful manus successful the sixth lucifer of the Women’s Premier League 2026 connected Tuesday.Mumbai Indians needed 193 to win. The pursuit began with an aboriginal setback arsenic some openers were dismissed for a full of 37 wrong the archetypal 5 overs.
Amanjot Kaur and Harmanpreet Kaur past steadied the innings with a 72-run partnership. Amanjot scored 40 disconnected 26 balls, portion Harmanpreet made 71 disconnected 43 deliveries.After Amanjot’s dismissal successful the 13th over, Mumbai Indians remained successful control. Nicola Carey joined Harmanpreet and added momentum to the pursuit with 38 disconnected 23 balls. Mumbai Indians reached the people comfortably successful 19.2 overs to registry a seven-wicket win.
Earlier, Gujarat Giants posted 192 for 5 successful 20 overs aft being asked to bat first. Openers Sophie Devine and Beth Mooney got Gujarat disconnected to a speedy start, hitting 4 boundaries successful the 2nd over. Devine was dismissed for 8 disconnected 4 balls by Shabnim Ismail, leaving Gujarat astatine 26 for 1 successful 3 overs.Kanika Ahuja past struck a six and a 4 successful the adjacent implicit arsenic Gujarat moved to 40 for one. At the extremity of the powerplay, Gujarat were 62 for one, their third-best powerplay people successful WPL history.Amelia Kerr removed Mooney for 33 disconnected 26 balls successful the seventh over. Nicola Carey dismissed Gujarat skipper Ashleigh Gardner successful the 10th over. Gardner scored 20 disconnected 11 balls arsenic Gujarat reached 99 for 3 astatine the halfway stage.Hayley Matthews dismissed Kanika Ahuja for 35 disconnected 18 balls successful the 11th over, reducing Gujarat to 101 for four. Georgia Wareham and Ayushi Soni past added stability. Gujarat were 130 for 4 aft 15 overs.
Soni, who made 11 disconnected 14 balls, was retired retired aft the 16th over.In the last 4 overs, Wareham and Bharti Fulmali enactment unneurotic an unbeaten 56-run partnership. Fulmali scored 36 not retired disconnected 15 balls, portion Wareham finished connected 43 not retired disconnected 33 deliveries. Their basal helped Gujarat Giants adjacent connected 192 for five.
