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Mumbai Indians143 for 2 (Sciver-Brunt 75*, Matthews 59) beat UP Warriorz 142 for 9 (Harris 45, Vrinda 33, Sciver-Brunt 3-18) by eight wickets
Another Sciver-Brunt show
She came in early when MI were 6 for 1 in the fourth over, with Matthews struggling to get her timing and rhythm back. Chinelle Henry was swinging the ball both ways, making it difficult to score off in the powerplay. But Sciver-Brunt took only five balls to prove that wrong.
She welcomed Saima Thakor with a hat-trick of fours in the sixth over by sending the ball to long-on, deep square leg and deep cover. She played deep in the crease, put her bottom hand to good use and effortlessly maneuvered the ball to both sides of the pitch.
When there was width on offer, she cut fiercely, and when the length was short, she pulled behind and in front of square and toyed with the Warriorz bowlers. She brought up her fifty off 29 balls with nine fours and brought the equation down to 54 off 47 balls. This included a hat-trick of fours off Henry as well, in the 11th over.
From there, it was cakewalk for MI as Matthews also found her feet and started hitting boundaries. Overall, Sciver-Brunt struck 13 fours in her 44-ball stay.