Alyssa Healy has proven as soon as extra why she’s the very best ODI batter within the sport whereas Tahlia McGrath has demonstrated why she’s the top-ranked T20 participant in ladies’s cricket.
Yet even with their newest spectacular fifties within the Women’s Premier League, the 2 Australians have been nonetheless unable to derail Mumbai Indians’ outstanding unbeaten begin to the match as the house staff made it 4 wins out of 4 on the Brabourne Stadium on Sunday.
Australia’s World Cup-winning ladies have been in glowing type all through the primary two weeks because the WPL reached its midway level.
Yet it is considerably ironic that Mumbai, the one one of many 5 groups who’ve not really used their sole Aussie recruit – Heather Graham cannot break into the dominant beginning XI – are the outfit dominating the occasion.
Opting to bat first, Warriorz captain Healy cracked 58 off 46 balls to launch their innings and McGrath then breezed in with 50 off 37 because the pair shared a third-wicket partnership of 82.
But as soon as they have been each dismissed by the match’s main wicket-taker Saika Ishaque within the area of three balls, the momentum disappeared and the Warriorz stuttered to 6-159.
Still a good whole, English star Nat Sciver-Brunt (45no off 31) and India’s nationwide staff captain Harmanpreet Kaur (53no off 33) made it look straightforward meat as their unbroken partnership of 106 eased Mumbai to their goal on 2-164, profitable by eight wickets with 15 balls to spare.
McGrath solely bowled one over and it received clocked for 19 with Kaur belting her for 4, 6, 4 and 4 in consecutive deliveries.
“We were probably 15 to 20 runs short,” reckoned Healy, suggesting that her personal innings “was as scratchy as it comes”.
“We didn’t score as many boundaries as the Mumbai Indians did. We also bowled too much junk and gave too many boundaries.”
The Warriorz did not get any luck both. Behind the stumps within the eleventh over, keeper Healy was already celebrating when the stumps lit up as Kaur was bowled by Anjali Sarvani – however the bails merely would not budge.
At midway, the Warriorz are nonetheless third on 4 factors behind Meg Lanning’s second-placed Delhi Capitals on six factors, with Mumbai on eight.
Lanning stays the match’s main scorer with 206 runs, whereas Healy is second on 185.
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
