{"id":363553,"date":"2026-01-10T23:41:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T23:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/363553\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T23:41:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T23:41:11","slug":"wpl-2026-results-nat-sciver-brunt-scores-70-as-mi-bounce-back-to-beat-dc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/363553\/","title":{"rendered":"WPL 2026 results: Nat Sciver-Brunt scores 70 as MI bounce back to beat DC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">England captain Nat Sciver-Brunt bounced back with a difficult first game with a 46-ball 70 and two wickets as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/scorecard\/e-233915\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mumbai Indians beat Delhi Capitals<\/a> by 50 runs in the Women&#8217;s Premier League.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sciver-Brunt did not hit a six but struck 13 fours in the defending champions&#8217; 195-4. Captain Harmanpreet Kaur also scored 74 not out from 42 balls.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">South African Lizelle Lee then hit a Sciver-Brunt slower ball to mid-on in the fourth over of the chase and the all-rounder later added the wicket of India international Sneh Rana.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She finished with 2-29 from three overs as Delhi were bowled out for 145 in 19 overs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the earlier fixture, Australia international Ash Gardner&#8217;s 65 not out helped <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/scorecard\/e-233914\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gujarat Giants beat UP Warriorz<\/a> by 10 runs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Giants put on 207-4 with Anushka Sharma contributing 44, Sophie Devine 38 and Georgia Wareham 27.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Australia left-hander Phoebe Litchfield scored 78 from 40 balls in reply, giving Warriorz a real shot at a tough chase, but the innings fell away when Litchfield was caught with 58 runs needed from 27 balls. They finished on 197-8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England captain Nat Sciver-Brunt bounced back with a difficult first game with a 46-ball 70 and two wickets&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363554,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-363553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}