BENGALURU: For years, a towering Jamaican exhibited his big-hitting prowess at the M Chinnaswamy stadium. On Saturday night, the reminiscence of Chris Gayle’s fireworks was on display.
His fellow Jamaican Chinelle Henry lit up the night with a 23-ball 62 (2×4;8×6), The Uttar Pradesh Warriorz batter tore into the Delhi Capitals‘ bowling attack to lift her team to 177/9.
Henry shared the limelight with her teammate Grace Harris, as the spinner became the third player to register a hat-trick in the history of the WPL. In the last over, she claimed the wickets of Niki Prasad, Arundathi Reddy and Minnu Mani off the first three deliveries to signal her team’s 33-run win, their first of the season. The Capitals’ folded for 144 in 19.3 overs.
Until Grace’s last-over heroics, Warriorz bowling attack was led by rookie pacer Kranti Goud (4/25), who gave her team an early breakthrough as Capitals skipper Meg Lanning lost her stumps in the fifth over. With the wick et of a rampaging Jemimah Rodrigues (56; 35b; 8×4; 1×6) in the 15th over, she put her team on course for victory.
Brief Scores: UP Warriorz 177/9 in 20 overs (C Henry 62; MKapp 2/18, J Jonassen 4/31) beat Delhi Capitals 144 in 19.3 overs (J Rodrigues 56; K Goud 4/25, G Harris 4/15) by 33 runs