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Amelia Kerr and Amanjot Kaur enactment up a brave combat and forged an 83-run concern for the sixth wicket. But successful the end, their efforts proved futile arsenic the Mumbai Indians went down to the UP Warriorz by 22 runs, for the 2nd clip successful 3 days, successful a Women’s Premier League fixture.
Meg Lanning led from the beforehand with a 45-ball 70 and Phoebe Litchfield struck 61 disconnected 37 balls to usher Warriorz to 187 for 8 astatine the D.Y. Patil Stadium connected Saturday (January 17, 2026). Mumbai Indians were connected the backmost ft for astir of the chase, arsenic they mislaid the archetypal 5 wickets for conscionable 69 runs successful 11 overs.
While the defending champion was staring astatine a large decision arsenic nary of the top-order batters could emergence to the occasion, Kerr (49 n.o., 28b, 6x4, 1x6) and Amanjot (41, 24b, 4x4, 3x6) brought the crippled to life, making astir of the reprieves.
However, Shikha Pandey bowled a choky spell astatine the decease and yet broke the concern with a crisp instrumentality drawback to sent backmost Amanjot arsenic Mumbai yet fell short.
Mumbai changed its opening brace erstwhile again and went up with Hayley Matthews and Sajeevan Sajana. But the determination did not wage disconnected arsenic the concern did not past 3 overs arsenic the location squad struggled successful the PowerPlay. It was a time erstwhile neither Harmanpreet Kaur nor Nicola Carey could measurement up.
Warriorz dominated successful each department. Despite losing opener Kiran Navgire for a duck, Warriorz rode connected Lanning and Litchfield’s 119-run concern disconnected conscionable 74 balls to prehend power of the innings. As Mumbai dropped rather a fewer catches, the 2 went connected to people gritty fifties.
Amanjot broke the concern by removing the left-handed Litchfield. Matthews struck successful the adjacent implicit to disregard Lanning and enactment the brakes connected the Warriorz’s innings. However, Harleen Deol and Chloe Tyron provided the finishing touches with quick-fire cameos and guided them to a total, which proved enough.
