{"id":419013,"date":"2026-01-17T11:49:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T11:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/419013\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T11:49:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T11:49:07","slug":"mi-bring-in-matthews-and-reddy-ask-unchanged-upw-to-take-first-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/419013\/","title":{"rendered":"MI bring in Matthews and Reddy, ask unchanged UPW to take first strike"},"content":{"rendered":"

Toss Mumbai Indians chose to bowl vs UP Warriorz<\/p>\n

After losing to the same opposition in their last game, Mumbai Indians<\/a> (MI) captain Harmanpreet Kaur<\/a> won the toss and elected to field in the day game against UP Warriorz<\/a> (UPW) at the DY Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai on Saturday.<\/p>\n

MI made two changes from their last game, with Shabnim Ismail rested and Hayley Matthews<\/a> coming in. Batter Poonam Khemnar was unavailable for the game, so they handed a debut to medium pacer Kranthi Reddy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Speaking to ESPNcricinfo prior to the start of the WPL<\/a> season, MI’s bowling coach and mentor Jhulan Goswami<\/a> had said of Reddy: “She has been a special, talented cricketer. During the trials and domestic matches, our scouting coaches liked her accuracy. She was able to bowl consistent areas and also has a different kind of action – she has a little bit of a slingy kind of action, which is what we like about her.”<\/p>\n

UPW captain Meg Lanning<\/a> said they would have also liked to chase. They named an unchanged XI from their win over MI as they look to rack up back-to-back victories after a difficult start to the season.<\/p>\n

As things stand, MI are second on the table, with Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) ahead of them, while UPW are bottom.<\/p>\n

Mumbai Indians: 1 G Kamalini (wk), 2 Hayley Matthews, 3 Nat Sciver-Brunt, 4 Harmanpreet Kaur (capt), 5 Amelia Kerr, 6 Amanjot Kaur, 7 Nicola Carey, 8 Sajeevan Sajana, 9 Sanskriti Gupta, 10 Kranthi Reddy, 11 Triveni Vasistha<\/p>\n

UP Warriorz: 1 Kiran Navgire, 2 Meg Lanning (capt), 3 Phoebe Litchfield, 4 Harleen Deol, 5 Shweta Sehrawat (wk), 6 Chloe Tryon, 7 Deepti Sharma, 8 Sophie Ecclestone, 9 Asha Sobhana, 10 Shikha Pandey, 11 Kranti Gaud<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toss Mumbai Indians chose to bowl vs UP Warriorz After losing to the same opposition in their last…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419014,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-419013","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cricket","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}