Mumbai Indians’ Issy Wong Creates History, Bags First-Ever WPL Hat-trick. Watch | Cricket News

Mumbai Indians’ 20-year-old pacer Issy Wong created historical past within the inaugural version of the Women’s Premier League, bagging the event’s first-ever hat-trick within the Eliminator conflict towards UP Warriorz. Issy stepped up when her franchise wanted her probably the most, taking a complete of 4 wickets for simply 15 runs in 4 overs as Mumbai went on to beat UP by a whopping 72 runs within the digital semi-final on Friday. In the method, Mumbai entered the ultimate of the event, organising a date with Delhi Capitals.

Wong, who’s from England, bagged the massive wickets of Alyssa Healy, Kiran Navgire, Simran Shaikh and Sophie Ecclestone — with the final three coming in succession — to finish her treble. In the thirteenth over, get bagged the wicket of Navgire because the UP batter seemed to hit a giant one however discovered the protected palms of Nat Sciver-Brunt. On the subsequent ball, Wong produced a stunner to bowl out Simran Shaikh for a duck. On the hat-trick ball, Wong despatched Sophie Ecclestone packing for 0 too. Here’s the video:

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Take a bow Issy Wong

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Nat Sciver-Brunt’s half-century helped Mumbai Indians submit 182/4 towards UP Warriorz within the Eliminator.

Sciver-Brunt slammed an unbeaten 72 off 38 deliveries whereas Melie Kerr performed a knock of 29 runs in 19 balls. For UP Warriorz Sophie Ecclestone bagged two wickets whereas Parshavi Chopra and Anjali Sarvani known as one every.

When the Right-hander Nat Sciver-Brunt then got here out to bat. The duo of Brunt and Matthews performed cautiously, slamming boundaries at common intervals.

Matthews’s enterprising knock was minimize brief after 16-year-old Parshavi Chopra produced a shocking supply to ship again the Mumbai batter. She scored 26.

Captain Harmanpreet Kaur got here out to the center on the fall of Matthew’s wicket. Brunt then opened up, as she slammed Parshavi for back-to-back sixes and limits within the twelfth over of the sport, garnering 16 runs.

Sophie Ecclestone then got here up with a superb supply to take away Harmanpreet for 14 within the thirteenth over.

Melie Kerr changed the skipper on the crease. Sciver-Brunt continued her red-hot kind as she slammed UP bowlers throughout the bottom whereas additionally stealing singles and turning the strike over. Sciver-Brunt introduced up her much-needed fifty off simply 26 balls, within the sixteenth over of the innings.

Sciver-Brunt slammed Rajeshwari Gayakwad for back-to-back boundaries within the seventeenth over, scoring 13 runs.

Kerr, nevertheless, fell prey to Ecclestone on the rating of 29. New batter Pooja Vastrakar and Sciver-Brunt hammered Deepti Sharma for 18 runs, slamming two sixes and one 4 within the final over, to information their group’s whole to 182/4 in 20 overs.

With PTI inputs