Nate Sciver-Brunt’s brilliant fifty, Mumbai Indians set the target of 162 runs for UP Warriors

WPL 2026: The 8th match of the Women’s Premier League 2026 between Mumbai Indians and UP Warriors is being played at DY Patil Stadium. UP Warriors won the toss and decided to bowl first. Batting first, Mumbai Indians scored 161 runs for 5 wickets. Nat Sciver-Brunt played the highest innings of 65 runs for the team.

Harmanpreet Kaur did not score runs today

G Kamalini and Amanjot Kaur came to open for Mumbai Indians who came to bat first after losing the toss. There was a partnership of 43 runs for the first wicket between the two openers, but then Amanjot Kaur was out after scoring 38 runs on 33 balls. After this, G Kamalini also went away after scoring only 5 runs. Captain Harmanpreet Kaur also could not do anything special and was out after scoring 16 runs on 11 balls.

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Nat Sciver-Brunt scored a brilliant half-century

After this, after playing a brilliant innings Nat Sciver-Brunt Pavilion returned. He played an inning of 65 runs in 43 balls, which included 9 fours and a six. Apart from this, Nicola Carey returned unbeaten after scoring 32 runs on 20 balls and took the team’s score to 161. During this he hit 5 fours. Whereas for UP Warriors, Deepti Sharma, Shikha Pandey, Sophie Ecclestone and Asha Shobhana took 1 wicket each.

A momentum-changing partnership!

In-form Nicola Carey and Nat Sciver-Brunt turning it around for Mumbai Indians 💙

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This is the playing 11 of both the teams:

Playing 11 of Mumbai Indians: G Kamalini (wicketkeeper), Emily Kerr, Nate Sciver-Brunt, Harmanpreet Kaur (captain), Nicola Carey, Sajeevan Sajna, Amanjot Kaur, Poonam Khemnar, Shabnim Ismail, Sanskriti Gupta, Triveni Vashishtha.

Playing 11 of UP Warriors: Kiran Navgire, Meg Lanning (captain), Phoebe Litchfield, Harleen Deol, Shweta Sehrawat (wicketkeeper), Chloe Tryon, Deepti Sharma, Sophie Ecclestone, Asha Shobhana, Shikha Pandey, Kranti Gaur.

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