WPL 2026: Meg Lanning guides UP Warriorz to comprehensive win over Mumbai Indians

With this win, the Meg Lanning-UP Warriorz registered their second win in five matches, whereas the Mumbai Indians suffered their third defeat in as many games.

While chasing a challenging target of 188 runs, the Mumbai Indians were restricted to 165/6 in 20 overs after a good bowling performance by the UP Warriorz.

Mumbai Indians lost their top five batters, Hayley Matthews (13), Sajeevan Sajana (10), Nat Sciver-Brunt (15), and captain Harmanpreet Kaur (18) as the two-time champions slumped to 69-5 at one stage.

However, Amelia Kerr's unbeaten 49 and Amanjot Kaur's 41 tried hard, but UP Warriorz tight bowling helped them to seal a victory at the DY Patil Stadium.

With the ball, Shikha Pandey (2/30), Kranti Gaud (1/32), Sophie Ecclestone (1/33), Deepti Sharma (1/35), and Chloe Tryon (1/18) were among the wicket-takers for UP Warriroz.

Earlier, Meg Lanning and Phoebe Litchfield helped the UP Warriorz set a challenging total of 187/8 in 20 overs against the Harmanpreet Kaur-led Mumbai Indians.

UPW lost an early wicket in the form of Kiran Navgire as MI's Nicola Carey (1-38 in four overs) got rid of the opener for a golden duck.

However, the UPW captain Meg Lanning (70 off 45 balls, including 11 boundaries and two sixes) stitched a 119-run partnership off 74 balls alongside Australian compatriot Phoebe Litchfield (61 runs off 37 balls, including seven boundaries and three sixes).

With her 70-run innings, Lanning now has the most fifty-plus scores in the history of WPL. She now has 11 fifty-plus scores in 32 WPL innings, followed by MI's Harmanpreet Kaur, who has 10 fifty-plus scores in 30 innings. Nat Sciver-Brunt also has 10 fifty-plus totals in 32 WPL innings.

Amelia Kerr, bowling the final over of the innings, wreaked havoc as she gave just two runs and claimed three wickets (Harleen Deol, Sophie Ecclestone and Deepti Sharma) and kept UP to surpass the 190-run mark and finish with 187/8 in 20 overs. Kerr finished with the figures of 3-28 in four overs.

With her three-wicket haul, Kerr became the first player in WPL history to reach the 50-wicket milestone. She now has 50 wickets in 34 matches at an excellent average of 17.26. She is seven wickets ahead of the second-placed Hayley Matthews, who has 43 wickets in 31 WPL matches. (ANI)