The entertainment must be at its peak. WPL 2023 allows us to enjoy the most interesting women’s cricket matches. Just like the men’s Indian Premier League, WPL 2023 is also gaining quite popularity. It is definitely gaining all the attention.
There are a lot of predictions about the matches. Everyone seems to be a cricket expert now. Most of the match predictions we are witnessing are about the UP Warriorz vs Mumbai Indians match. Both are extremely strong teams. Therefore, it is difficult to predict the winner for the UPW vs MI WPL 2023 match.
Still, we are trying to guess by looking into the structure of both teams, as below.
UP Warriorz
Alyssa Healy, the Australian batsman is leading the team. In fact, she and the whole team is expecting to win in the UP Warriorz vs Mumbai Indians match. However, before commenting on it, let us have a look at their performance till now.
So far, UP Warriorz did play 2 matches in the Women’s Premier League 2023. Their very first match was against Gujarat Giants. The opponent was able to set a target of 170. And UP Warriorz did win the match with one ball remaining. Kiran Navgire and Grace Harris, did score fifties. Which of course played a crucial role in the team’s win.
Now the second match, which they did play on March 8. It was against Delhi Capital, whose batting lineup is quite good. They set a huge target of 212 runs, However, UP Warriorz was only able to score 169 in 20 overs. Though, they still had 5 wickets remaining. But they lacked the strike rate.
UP Warriorz Squad : WPL 2023
The captain and vice-captain are Alyssa Healy and Deepti Sharma respectively. Deepti is a great Indian all-rounder. The team has 6 more all-rounders in the squad. Those are Devika Vaidya, Grace Haris, Parshavi Chopra, S Yashasri, Sophie Ecclestone, and Tahila Mcgrath.
Shweta Sehrawat is the other Batsman accompanying Alyssa in WPL 2023 matches.
In addition, two of the epic bowlers Rajeshwari Gayakwad and Lauren Bell, are with UP Warriorz too.
Therefore, the whole squad seems quite strong.
Mumbai Indians
Here is the team who did win 2 out of 2 matches in WPL 2023. The very first WPL 2023 match was between Mumbai Indians and Gujarat Giants on March 4. The performance of Mumbai Indians was exceptionally well. Batting first, MI did score 207 runs in 20 overs. That too, losing just 5 wickets. On the other hand, the bowling was not less too. The whole team GG was not able to score even 70 runs. They were all out at mere 64 runs.
The epic performance of Mumbai Indians winning, we did see in the second match too. It was against RCB. The whole team of Royal Challengers Bangalore was out in 18.4 overs. Thus, setting a target of 166 runs. Which the MI achieved in just 14.2 overs. In fact, they did lose just one wicket. This definitely shows the level of performance of both the bowling and batting sides of MI.
And also Delhi Capitals was all out at 18 overs with 105 runs, which Mumbai Indians achieved in just 15 overs with 8 wickets remaining.
Mumbai Indians Squad: WPL 2023
The Indian star cricketer and great all-rounder, Harmanpreet Kaur, is the Captain of MI. Besides her, MI to has a lot of all-rounders. 11 in total, to be specific. Those are Neelam Bisht, Amanjot Kaur, Amella Kerr, Chloe Tryon, Hayley Matthews, Heather Graham, Jintimani Kalita, Pooja Vastrakar, Issy Wong, Humairaa Kaazi, and Natalie Sciver Brunt.
Yastika Bhatia and Priyanka Bala are the two wicketkeepers. Dhara Gujjar is the only full-time batter on the MI team. Moreover, Saika Ishaque and Sonam Yadav are two more bowlers we will see in WPL 2023 match.
Match Prediction of UP Warriorz vs Mumbai Indians
As we have gone through both teams line up. In addition, we are well aware of their performance so far in the WPL 2023. Clearly, in UPW vs MI, the latter team has more of an edge. As in both of the matches they did play so far, they were precisely on their side from the very start.
In fact, both bowlers and batters did perform exceptionally too. Opening Batters of Mumbai Indian Yastika Bhatia and Hayley Matthews, are the 2 pillars of Mumbai Indian success so far this very 1st season with Harmanpreet Kaur’s captaincy and sending Natalie Sciver Brunt in 3rd for batting and pressurizing the opponent’s bowlers.
Whereas, UPW did lose from Delhi capital with a huge difference. UP Warriorz has 4 points from 3 games. They have the ability to win the game vs Mumbai Indians. It’s on Alyssa Healy how she gonna use her team against the team with a 100% win record.
UP Warriorz is comparatively weaker and they lost against Delhi Capitals by 42 runs. If they want to win, they have to pressurize Mumbai Indian opening batters.
However, as per our prediction, Mumbai Indians will continue with the 100% win record this WPL.
In conclusion…
The predictions in cricket can never be accurate. All we can do is guess. Though, we can calculate the data. But never forget, cricket often changes the result at the very last ball too.
However, it seems as per current stats, that MI might be winning. As they do have all players in great form currently.
Still, nothing can be said with 100% assurance. But, one thing we are sure of is the ultimate fun you are going to have in the UP Warriorz vs Mumbai Indians match. So, cheer for your favorite team. And, Good luck. Of course, the best team will win.
