Mumbai Indians’ left-arm spinner Saika Ishaque presently leads the record of Women’s Premier League (WPL) wicket-takers with 9 wickets in her kitty, and it has left England pacer Kate Cross mighty impressed.
“She’s jumped significantly ahead of Hayley Matthews, her teammate. She bowls stump-to-stump, and she changes the angles at which she bowls. She bowled with the cap and I don’t think she wants to take it off,” Kate was quoted as saying by Sports18 and JioCinema.
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WPL 2023: Dominant Mumbai Indians register third consecutive win
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<p>Mumbai Indians produced a scientific efficiency to thrash Delhi Capitals by eight wickets within the seventh match of the Women’s Premier League 2023 on Thursday.</p>
<p>This was Mumbai’s third consecutive victory within the league. <br /></p>
<p>Mumbai Indians are on the prime of the desk with six factors. <br /></p>
<p>On the opposite hand, Delhi Capitals suffered their first loss and are on the second place with 4 factors.<br /></p>
<p>Riding on good bowling performances from Issy Wong (3/10), Saika Ishaque (3/13) and Hayley Matthews (3/19), Mumbai Indians bowled out Delhi Capitals for 105 in 18 overs.<br /></p>
<p>Issy, Saika and Hayley saved selecting essential wickets for Mumbai at common intervals as solely two Delhi batters Meg Lanning (43 off 41) and Jemimah Rodrigues (25 off 18) confirmed some battle.<br /></p>
<p>In reply, opener Yastika Bhatia performed a nice knock (41 off 32) for Mumbai Indians earlier than getting out within the ninth over. <br /></p>
<p>Yastika’s knock was studded with 8 boundaries<br /></p>
<p>Thereafter, Delhi Capitals eliminated one other opener Hayley Matthews (32 of 31) within the twelfth over however it was not sufficient as Nat Sciver-Brunt (23 not out) and Harmanpreet Kaur (11) performed some adventurous pictures to maintain the score-board shifting.<br /></p>
<p>Nat Sciver and Harmanpreet stitched a quickfire stand of 32 runs for the third wicket as Mumbai Indians chased down the goal in 15 overs with eight wickets in hand.<br /></p>
Saika has grabbed the chance that WPL has given to the gamers, particularly those that are uncapped, to showcase their expertise.
On Thursday, within the match between MI and Delhi Capitals, Saika took out Shafali Verma, Meg Lanning and Jemimah Rodrigues in a game-changing spell to set the bottom for an eight-wicket victory for Mumbai Indians.
“She’s been a real find for this tournament and it’s great for her (captain Harmanpreet Kaur) to have players like that to throw the ball to her because she can find the breakthrough and T20 cricket is all about taking wickets,” mentioned Kate.
Kate additionally felt that Mumbai, the one undefeated aspect within the competitors, are a agency contender for the title now.
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“Mumbai have been absolutely formidable. They look complete in every single department. They dropped a few catches early and that’s the only thing you can say about tonight that they didn’t get perfect. They’ve been a brilliant team to watch. Who’ll catch them? I am not too sure.”
(With company inputs)
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com
