The Mumbai Indians opener Hayley Matthews has slammed her fourth WPL fifty during the 2025 season match against UP Warriorz.
Her fifty came in 35 deliveries in the side’ run chase against Deepti Sharma’s side at Ekana Cricket Stadium. She amassed 564 runs in 24 WPL matches at an average of 24.52 and a strike rate of 117.50 which includes three fifties.
Her partnership along with Nat Sciver-Brunt created the momentum MI needed to march towards victory. In the pursuit of chasing UPW’s 150 runs, Hayley Matthews and Amelia Kerr opened the innings while Chinelle Henry opened the bowling attack.
However, Chinelle picked the wicket of Amelia Kerr for 10 runs which made Nat Sciver-Brunt walk in. Mumbai Indians scored 50 runs in the power play for a wicket.
The duo went on to stitch a 92-run partnership for the second wicket. Grace Harris picked the wicket of Nat Sciver for 37 runs, but Harmanpreet Kaur joined Matthews to quick the side’s victory.
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Batting first, Georgia Voll and Grace Harris opened the innings for UP Warriorz while Shabnim Ismail opened the bowling attack. The Australia duo went on to score 50 in the powerplay.
With Hayley Matthews providing a crucial breakthrough for Mumbai dismissing Harris for 28 runs in the 8th over, Voll went on to slam her maiden WPL fifty.
However, Kiran Navgire was sent on duck by Amelia Kerr. With the dismissal of the Voll for 55 runs, UP Warriorz lost three wickets for 90 runs.
MI gained momentum in the match as the dismissed the middle order at regular interval. UP Warriorz went on to lose 6 wickets in the middle overs for 121 runs after finishing strongly in the powerplay.
UP lost the wickets of Grace Harris, Georgia Voll, Kiran Navgire, Vrinda Dinesh and Chinelle Henry.
Hayley Matthews picked her second wicket dismissing Shweta Sehrawat for duck while Parunika bagged the wicket of Uma Chetry for 1.
Bowling the last over, Amelia Kerr bagged the wickets of Deepti Sharma and Sophie Ecclestone to complete her five wicket haul. UP Warriorz went on to score 150 runs losing 9 wickets in their 20 over innings.
