DTVHINDIWPL 2024: Water sprinklers started automatically in Mumbai Indians vs Gujarat Giants match, match had to be stopped
This incident happened during the 18th over of Mumbai’s innings. Mumbai Indians-Gujarat Giants (Image Credit- Twitter The 16th match of the ongoing Women’s Premier League (WPL) was played between Mumbai Indians and Gujarat Giants (MI vs GG) yesterday on March 9. Let us tell you that in this match, when Mumbai Indians came to bat in the second innings, some such incident happened during the 18th over of their innings, due to which the match had to be stopped for some time. Let us tell you that for some time during Mumbai’s innings, the water sprinklers present in the stadium started working on their own, due to which the match had to be stopped for some time. Here Gujarat captain Beth Mooney refused to play on the wet outfield, due to which the match had to be stopped for some time. However, after this, with the help of supershopper, the ground was dried and prepared for the remaining game in a short time. But during this time the photo and video of this incident went viral on social media within no time. See some viral photos of this incident All of a sudden sprinklers automatically went on in between overs! The match was halted for a few minutes! Beth Mooney denied playing due to wet outfield near boundary! #WPL2024 pic.twitter.com/R6eqRfBeHO — Nilesh G (@oye__nilesh) March 9, 2024 On the other hand, if we tell you the condition of this match, Mumbai Indians made the most successful run chase in the history of Women’s Premier League in this match and won the match by 7 wickets. Talking about the match, Gujarat won the toss and decided to bat first and scored 190 runs at the loss of 7 wickets in 20 overs. For Gujarat, Beth Mooney played the captaincy innings and scored 66 runs, while D Hemalatha played a brilliant inning of 74 runs. After this, when Mumbai set out to chase the target of 191 runs given by Gujarat, it was easily achieved by losing 3 wickets in 19.5 overs. For Mumbai, captain Harmanpreet played a brilliant unbeaten inning of 95* runs in 48 balls. During this innings, Harman hit 10 fours and 5 skyscraper sixes.
