After Beth Mooney's brilliant batting, Kashvi Gautam and Tanuja Kanwar's excellent bowling helped Gujarat Giants beat UP Warriors by a huge margin of 81 runs in the Women's Premier League (WPL) match. This is the second biggest win of a team in terms of runs in the history of this tournament. On the basis of Beth Mooney's innings of 96 runs, Gujarat Giants scored 186 runs for the loss of five wickets in 20 overs. In reply, UP Warriors were all out for 105 runs in 17.1 overs. While chasing the target against Gujarat, UP Warriors' batting was not good and the team did not look in a good position at any time.

UP's batting was poor while chasing the target

Chinelle Henry scored the highest 28 runs for UP Warriors, while opener Grace Harris played an innings of 25 runs. Four batsmen of UP could not even open their account, while three batsmen could not even reach double digits. For UP, Kiran Navgire and Georgia Voll returned to the pavilion without opening their account, while Vrinda Dinesh scored one and captain Deepti Sharma returned to the pavilion after scoring six runs. Apart from this, Shweta Sehrawat was out after scoring five runs, Uma Chhetri 17 and Sophie Ecclestone 17 runs. For Gujarat, Kashvi and Tanuja took three wickets each, while Deandra Dottin took two wickets. At the same time, Meghna Singh and captain Ashley Gardner got one wicket each.

Great partnership of Mooney-Deol

Earlier, UP Warriors won the toss and decided to bowl first. Gujarat did not have a good start while batting first and lost a wicket in the very first over. Chinelle Henry gave the first blow to Gujarat by dismissing Hemlata. Hemlata was out after scoring two runs off three balls. UP gave an early blow by dismissing Hemalata in the very first over, but Mooney and Harleen Deol took charge of Gujarat's innings. There was a century partnership between the two for the second wicket which was broken by Ecclestone. Mooney scored an unbeaten 96 off 59 balls with the help of 17 fours. Mooney was close to scoring the first century in WPL history, but missed it by a very small margin.

Mooney hit a half-century

Beth Mooney continued to bat brilliantly from one end for Gujarat and she hit a half-century. There was a great partnership between Mooney and Harleen Deol for the second wicket which was broken by Sophie Ecclestone by dismissing Harleen. Harleen was also moving towards a half-century, but was dismissed after scoring 45 runs off 32 balls with the help of six fours. There was a partnership of 101 runs between Mooney and Harleen for the second wicket. This is the fourth-highest partnership in the history of Gujarat in WPL.

For Gujarat, Deandra Dottin scored 17, captain Ashley Gardner scored 11, Phoebe Litchfield scored eight and Dayalan Hemalatha scored two runs. Meanwhile, Bharti Fulmali remained unbeaten after scoring two runs. For UP, Sophie Eccleton took two wickets, while Chinelle Henry, Deepti Sharma and Kranti Gaur got one wicket each.