Women's T20 League

Match 20: UP-W vs DEL-W

Preview

The 20th Match of the Women’s T20 League will be played between UP-W and DEL-W on Monday, 20th March 2023, at 07:30 PM IST at Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai. It's the battle between the table toppers Delhi and the third-placed Uttar Pradesh in the league who also have qualified for the next round. Both sides will be heading for this after winning their last league match.

Meg Lanning-led DEL-W can secure a direct passage to the final with a win against UP-W Alyssa Healy on Tuesday. The leaders of the table now Lanning and Co are currently at the top of the table with 10 points after Mumbai in the last fixture by 9 wickets and chased the target in 9 overs. The courtesy of Lanning's 32, Verma's 33 and Capsey's 38 helped DEL-W to ensure its 5th win of the tournament and overtake MUM-W in the points table.

Harmanpreet Kaur-led MUM-W is in second position with 10 points and an inferior net run rate after suffering a thrashing defeat from DEL-W on Monday. Delhi has to win their match on Tuesday and hopes that MUM-W either loses their match against BLR-W or doesn’t win by a huge margin.

On the other hand, Healy-led UP-W would want to maintain their winning ways and register a convincing win against the table toppers. Both the teams are well-balanced and the match promises to be a thrilling affair. UP-W won its last match by 3 wickets while chasing a huge target of 179 runs against Gujarat, with that win UP ensured its qualification for the next round and successfully eliminated both Gujarat and Bangalore.

Match Details

Match: UP-W vs DEL-W, Match 20, Women's T20 League

Date: Tuesday, 21st March

Time: 07:30 PM

Venue: Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai

Pitch & Weather Report

The team batting second in the 8 T20s of the Women's T20 League has chased the target on 6 occasions. DEL-W has won 3 out of the four games played at this Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai. The last five games have shown chasing targets will be an ideal choice. The team winning the toss should bowl first.

Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai holds a capacity of 50,000 spectators and has hosted 2 T20WIs and 8 Women's T20 League games so far.

The maximum temperature will remain at 28°C, with a low of 26°C with 61% humidity, and a wind speed of 18 Km/hr for the 20th Match, the Women's IND T20 on Mar 21 b/w UP-W vs DEL-W. The weather in Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai during the match day will be clear and no rain is predicted in this evening encounter.

UP-W vs DEL-W Squads

UP-W: Alyssa Healy (c & wk), Devika Vaidya, Kiran Navgire, Grace Harris, Tahlia McGrath, Simran Shaikh, Sophie Ecclestone, Deepti Sharma, Shweta Sehrawat, Anjali Sarvani, Rajeshwari Gayakwad, Shabnim Ismail, Lauren Bell, Shivali Shinde, Laxmi Yadav, Parshavi Chopra, Soppadhandi Yashasri

DEL-W: Jemimah Rodrigues, Shefali Verma, Marizanne Kapp, Meg Lanning, Alice Capsey, Shikha Pandey, Jess Jonassen, Laura Harris, Radha Yadav, Arundhati Reddy, Minnu Mani, Poonam Yadav, Sneha Deepthi, Taniyaa Bhatia, Titas Sadhu, Jasia Akhter, Aparna Mondal and Tara Norris

UP-W vs DEL-W: Probable XIs

UP-W: Alyssa Healy (c & wk), Devika Vaidya, Kiran Navgire, Grace Harris, Tahlia McGrath, Simran Shaikh, Sophie Ecclestone, Deepti Sharma, Shweta Sehrawat, Anjali Sarvani, Rajeshwari Gayakwad

DEL-W: Meg Lanning (c), Shafali Verma, Marizanne Kapp, Jemimah Rodrigues, Alice Capsey, Jess Jonassen, Taniya Bhatia (wk), Minnu Mani, Shikha Pandey, Radha Yadav, Tara Norris

Match Prediction

It's going to be a good encounter between two sides who have already qualified for the next round of the Women's T20 League competition. But Delhi will be eyeing to finish on the top by winning this last league encounter and securing its berth for the Final. While UP-W wants to win this match as well to end the league in 2nd spot. We say DEL-W to win this match.

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