WPL 2025, Match 16 Review: Amelia Kerr, Hayley Matthews help MI-W overcome UP-W

At the Ekana International Cricket Stadium in Lucknow on Thursday, March 6, the Mumbai Indians Women defeated the UP Warriorz Women by six wickets and nine deliveries remaining in Match 16 of the Women’s Premier League 2025.

UP Warriorz had a very successful powerplay, increasing their team’s score to fifty. Georgia Voll was obviously the more aggressive of the two, making it a very different start from the opening hitters. Grace Harris played 22 deliveries for just 21, whereas Voll had sped to 24 off 14 deliveries. A significant total to be posted was suggested by a 12-run seventh over. The last delivery of the eighth over was the first breakthrough of the evening.

Amelia Kerr took her first wicket of the match in the same over that Voll reached her first WPL fifty.

Three calm overs followed Voll’s dismissal. The momentum changed in Mumbai’s favour in the fifteenth over, when Kerr’s leg-spin claimed a few wickets. In the shortest format, Kerr ultimately suffered her first five-wicket loss. UP lost nine wickets and reached 150 at the end of their innings.

Kerr left on the last delivery of the third over, despite hitting a handful of boundaries in the opening two overs of the run-chase. Despite this, Hayley Matthews and Nat Sciver-Brunt continued to build a strong partnership. In a genuinely game-changing 92-run partnership, they reduced the needed run rate to less than a run-per-ball.

To give UP some relief, the two left in consecutive overs. The new batsmen at the crease were Harmanpreet Kaur and Amanjot Kaur. It appeared to be a close finish after a few overs of disciplined bowling and Kaur’s departure. But in the end, Amanjot and Yastika Bhatia used a few boundaries to end the match. With their fourth victory in six games, Mumbai moved up to second place in the standings.