Follow UsNat Sciver-Brunt has had a stellar run in the current season of the Women’s Premier League (WPL), and the Orange Cap on top of her head is a sign of that. She continued batting in the same vein in the Eliminator against the Gujarat Giants on March 13, scoring 77 off just 41 deliveries.
Not only was it the joint-highest score in a WPL knockout, but it was also her fifth half-century knock in this edition of the competition. No other batter has hit more than four half-centuries in one WPL season. She walked in when Mumbai Indians (MI) were batting at run a ball in the fifth over of the Eliminator at 26/1, and Yastika Bhatia was just dismissed by the debutant Dani Gibson.
She immediately got the innings going by using her feet against Tanuja Kanwer’s left-arm spin and didn’t stop after that, getting boundaries at regular intervals. She hit 10 fours and two sixes in her innings and kept running the quick runs as well in the middle to help MI reach 213/4, which is the highest total ever scored in a knockout game of the WPL. Skipper Harmanpreet Kaur used her muscle at the end and scored 36 off just 12 deliveries to swell the total, which is also the third-highest in the history of the WPL overall.
5 - Nat Sciver-Brunt, 2025*
4 - Tahlia McGrath, 2023
4 - Meg Lanning, 2024
4 - Ellyse Perry, 2025
Had she scored three more runs, Sciver-Brunt would have been the first-ever batter to score 1000 runs in the WPL, with 997 runs, the highest run-scorer in the competition's history.