With defending champions Mumbai Indians losing their second match on the bounce, both incidentally to the same opponent, skipper Harmanpreet Kaur rued the missed chances in the match against UP Warriorz on Saturday. She also stressed that the team needed to a more positive mindset during the powerplay. “We wanted to chase as a group. And I think even though we didn’t bowl well, we were still able to restrict them to less than 200 runs, which was a good thing. But I think in batting, we were not great in the powerplay. Every game, we are not coming up with a positive mindset in the powerplay. That’s something we really need to work on in the batting powerplay,” she said after the match. “Unfortunately, we missed a few chances in between. At this level, if you keep missing chances, the other team is going to put a lot of pressure on you. That’s exactly what happened today. As a team, we need to discuss this because we’ve been making a lot of mistakes. I know we have a very good side, but if we come together and make fewer mistakes, that can really help us win matches,” she added. Also Read | WPL 2026: Meg Lanning, Phoebe Litchfield shine as UP Warriorz outclass Mumbai Indians by 22 runs in Navi Mumbai finale UPW Captain Meg Lanning and fellow Australian Phoebe Litchfield struck dominating half centuries to set up Warriorz’s comprehensive 22-run win over Mumbai Indians. With the win, UP Warriorz stamped their dominance over Mumbai Indians in the WPL season 4 as they had also beaten the same opponents by seven wickets on Thursday. This was Mumbai’s third loss in five matches while UP Warriorz notched up their second win in five games. Sent in to bat, Lanning (70) and Litchfield (61) made Mumbai bowling look ordinary with their impressive batting and shared 119 runs for the second wicket off just 76 balls to take UP Warriorz to 187 for 8. Story continues below this ad Chasing 188, Mumbai struggled all throughout with their top batters failing to make it count. Openers Hayley Matthews (13) and Sajeevan Sajana (10) fell at the same team score of 23 while one-down Nat Sciver-Brunt (15) and Nicola Carey (6) were also dismissed in quick succession.
‘We need to discuss this because we’ve been making a lot of mistakes’: MI skipper Harmanpreet Kaur rues missed chances vs UP Warriorz
