Women's Premier League First match of today: Opening ceremony from 5:30 pm

 

First season of the historic Women's Premier League (WPL) begins today. The first match will be played between Mumbai Indians and Gujarat Giants at DY Patil Stadium in Mumbai from 7:30 pm. Before that, the opening ceremony will also start at DY Patil Stadium from 5:30 pm.

Kriti Sanon and Kiara Advani will perform

This is the first season of WPL. Before the first match of the season, there will be an opening ceremony of about one to one and a half hours. The ceremony will start at 5:30 pm at DY Patil Stadium in Mumbai. In this, Bollywood actresses Kriti Sanon and Kiara Advani will be seen performing. Hip-hop singer AP Dhillon will also perform.

Toss will be at 7 o'clock

There will be a match between Gujarat Giants and Mumbai Indians at DY Patil Stadium in Mumbai. Half an hour after the toss at 7 pm, the first ball of the match will be bowled at 7:30 pm. Mumbai will be captained by Harmanpreet Kaur while Beth Mooney is the captain of Gujarat.

pitch report

So far 2 Women's T20 International matches have been played at DY Patil Stadium. The teams batting once first and once second won the matches. Here the biggest score in the first innings is 187 runs in the name of Australia. Australia has also chased the biggest score of 173 runs here. In such a situation, a lot of runs will be seen on the pitch.

Mumbai Players like Harman, Sewer, Kerr

In Mumbai stars Harmanpreet Kaur besides big names like Chloe Tryon, Amelia Kerr, Natalie Sciver and Pooja Vastrakar. There are good foreign players in the team, but due to the lack of domestic players, there are problems in making a balanced playing-11.

Ashley Gardner present in Gujarat

Women's T20 World Cup player of the tournament Ashley Gardner and player of the final Beth Mooney are in Gujarat. Mooney is the captain of the team and the team also has top class all-rounders like Georgia Wareheim, Sneh Rana, Annabel Sutherland, Kim Garth, Manasi Joshi and Harleen Deol.

Possible playing-11

Mumbai Indians:

Harmanpreet Kaur (c), Yastika Bhatia (wk), Hayley Mathews/Chloe Tryon, Amelia Kerr, Heather Graham, Natalie Sever Brunt, Pooja Vastrakar, Amanjot Kaur, Saika Ishaka, Neelam Bisht and Sonam Yadav.

Gujarat Giants:

Beth Mooney (c), Sophia Dunkley, Kim Garth/Annabel Sutherland, Harleen Deol, Ashley Gardner, Sushma Verma (wk), Tanuja Kanwar, Sneh Rana, Manasi Joshi, Monika Patel and Dayalan Hemlata.