In the 15th match of Women’s Premier League 2025 played at Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Stadium in Lucknow, Gujarat Giants registered a strong victory by defeating UP Warriors by 81 runs.
Beth Mooney’s stormy innings, Gujarat put a huge score on the board!
Batting first, Gujarat Giants scored a strong score of 186/5 in 20 overs.
Gujarat Giants’ top scorers:
- Beth Mooney – 96* runs (59 balls, 17 fours)
- Harleen Deol – 45 runs (32 balls, 6 fours)
- Deandra Dottin – 17 runs (8 balls, 2 fours, 1 six)
UP Warriors’ best Bowlers:
- Sophie Ecclestone – 4 overs, 34 runs, 2 wickets
- Chinelle Henry – 4 overs, 31 runs, 1 wicket
- Deepti Sharma – 4 overs, 37 runs, 1 wicket
UP Warriors’ weak batting, Kashvi Gautam shines!
Chasing the target of 187 runs, the entire team of UP Warriors collapsed after scoring just 105 runs in 17.1 overs.
Kashvi Gautam and Tanuja Kanwar from Gujarat’s side did not give the UP batsmen a chance to recover by bowling lethally.
UP Warriors’ top scorers:
- Chinelle Henry – 28 runs (14 balls, 3 fours, 2 sixes)
- Uma Chettri – 17 runs (22 balls, 1 Four)
- Grace Harris – 25 runs (30 balls, 3 fours)
Lethal bowlers of Gujarat Giants:
- Kashvi Gautam – 3 overs, 11 runs, 3 wickets
- Tanuja Kanwar – 3.1 overs, 17 runs, 3 wickets
- Deandra Dottin – 3 overs, 14 runs, 2 wickets
- Meghana Singh – 2 overs, 28 runs, 1 wicket
Strong victory of Gujarat Giants, Beth Mooney and Kashvi Gautam shined!
Thanks to Beth Mooney’s innings of 96 runs and Kashvi Gautam’s lethal bowling (3/11), Gujarat Giants defeated UP Warriors by 81 runs.
With this win, Gujarat Giants further strengthened their position in the points table.
WPL GG vs UPW Women After Match Statement
Beth Mooney is undoubtedly today’s Player of the Match. Here’s what she has to say: The way we started with the bat, Harleen and I had that big partnership and it set us up beautifully. Had that impetus from Deandra, Ash and Phoebe later on. Looks like a nice blueprint and hopefully teams will start batting first (laughs). (When did she assess conditions?) Probably during the game. I’ve faced a lot of their bowlers in international cricket and I understood their plans. Decided to go down the ground. Batting first you’ve got to sum up the conditions really quickly and do what works out best for you.I thought Harleen did that quickly and batted fantastically well. We’re very lucky in this team that we have a couple of left-handers in the top-order. Having left and right throughout the innings helps especially if there are a few different spinners in the opposition. I can help the right-handers by facing left-arm spin and they can help taking on the right-arm offies. The great thing about playing the WPL is you learn about different players from around the world. Yeah that’s right (was forcing Harleen to run hard). No resting at the non-striker’s end when I’m out there batting. Hopefully she can get back for a couple of my twos the next game (grins).
Ashleigh Gardner (Gujarat Giants captain):
Yes, which is really nice (defending). Obviously set up by a fantastic innings from Beth Mooney. A bummer she couldn’t get a hundred but a nice partnership with Harleen that set it up for D-Dot (Dottin) to come and do her thing. There’s always things you can improve on. In the last five overs you want to limit dot balls which we probably had a few there, whether it was not getting Moons or strike or hitting out from the first ball. If anything, that was probably the one nitpicky thing but it was a great game. (On the total) Those runs are always good because you know the other team has to go hard from ball one.
I spoke to the team and said that we had to bowl well and take those chances. We set the tone really early – Deandra doing what she does so well, to swing the ball, she’s so skillful and Kashvee was fantastic. We’ve been so close this year in so many games. That first game, we always reflect on that, it could have gone either way. We’ve played some really good cricket. Being able to rest between every game is something we’ve spoken about. Making sure that now that a game’s finished, we turn up for the next game. Against Delhi Capitals we know it’ll be a tough match. They’re all tough matches here on but we’re looking forward to it.
Phoebe Litchfield (Gujarat Giants):
Yeah to come out here and play the way we did, a very happy camp. We spoke about it in the last three games and finally we managed a near perfect performance. We had a really good practice session yesterday. This was the best wicket we played on in India. Moons understood the pitch very well and conveyed to us that 180 was needed. Yeah I think, it was a clinical knock. Beth is a 360 player, when she gets in it’s very difficult to get her out. Once she gets over 20, it gets very difficult, have faced the brunt in domestic cricket.
Yeah I think the way Dottin and Kashvee bowled with the ball was quite special. It was a great sight to see from the slip. It nicely floated off the outside edge, it was fun indeed. Yeah hopefully we have lifted the very negative net run rate.
