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WPL 2025: MI’s Unstoppable Trio Continue Their Domination
Follow UsIt was a day for the all-rounders for Mumbai as they took their team to an easy win over Gujarat Giants
The Mumbai Indians (MI) trio of all-rounders Nat Sciver-Brunt, Amelia Kerr and Hayley Matthews continued their domination in the Women’s Premier League (WPL).
Playing against Gujarat Giants in match number five of the 2025 edition of the league, the trio created multiple records while taking their team to victory, the first of the season for Mumbai.
While the three of them took seven wickets between them, with Matthews taking three and Sciver-Brunt and Kerr picking two each, they also contributed heavily with the bat in what was not a big chase.
Matthews scored 17 while Kerr made 19. However, Sciver-Brunt was the MVP of the game as she smashed her fifth fifty. However, she got out for 57, when the team was only seven runs away from victory.
Not only did she become only the fifth player to record five or more fifty plus scores in the league, but it took the English batter's tally of boundaries past 100 with the help of her 11 fours.
Players to have hit 100+ boundaries in the WPL
113 - Meg Lanning
104 - Nat Sciver-Brunt
101 - Shafali Verma
Thanks to this knock of hers, Sciver-Brunt became only the fourth player to cross the 600-run mark in WPL history. After her 57, the 32-year-old is now the third highest run-scorer in the league. As a result, she is the highest scorer for MI in the league as well.
Most runs in WPL history
708 - Meg Lanning
664 - Ellyse Perry
641 - Nat Sciver-Brunt
604 - Shafali Verma
Apart from Sciver-Brunt, Matthews closed in on Sophie Ecclestone as the highest wicket taker in WPL history as well. The West Indian, after her three wicket haul in this game, reached 28 wickets, just one short of Ecclestone’s tally of 29 wickets.
Most Wickets in WPL history
29- Sophie Ecclestone
29- Hayley Matthews
26- Amelia Kerr
Kerr, on her part, entered an elite list as well. She became only the second player to complete the double of 250 runs and 25 wickets in the league.
Players to score 250+ runs and take 25+ wickets in the WPL
Hayley Matthews
Amelia Kerr