Gujarat included five foreign female players in the playing 11 against Mumbai Indians, know how it happened
Gujarat Giants vs Mumbai Indians, WPL 2024: BCCI has changed a rule of WPL this year. According to this, if a team includes a foreign player from an associate country in its playing 11, then it can play an extra foreign player.
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The Women's Premier League (WPL) is in its third season, and the Gujarat Giants (GG) are playing against the Mumbai Indians (MI), the reigning champions. The Gujarat Giants have accomplished something in this WPL match at M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru that has never been done before.
The Gujarat Giants' playing eleven for this game includes five foreign players. Cricket fans are perplexed as to how this occurred after that. In fact, in the Indian Premier League (IPL) and Women's Premier League (WPL), a team may only have four foreign players in its playing eleven, per the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). However, the question of how Gujarat used five players in this game then comes up.
BCCI has changed a rule of WPL this year. According to this, if a team includes a foreign player from an associate country in its playing 11, then it can play an extra foreign player. Gujarat has included Katherine Bryce in this match being played against Mumbai Indians. Bryce is from Scotland. Apart from Bryce, Gujarat's playing 11 includes captain Beth Mooney, Phoebe Litchfield, Ashley Gardner and Lee Tahuhu.
In this match, Mumbai Indians captain Harmanpreet Kaur won the toss and decided to bowl first. Mumbai played its first match of this season against Delhi Capital (DC). Mumbai won that match by four wickets. In such a situation, Harmanpreet Kaur has not made any changes in her team for this match. The first season of WPL was not good for Gujarat Giants. The team had won only 2 out of 8 matches and was at the bottom of the points table with four points. In such a situation, the team would like to start this season with a win.
Playing 11 of Team Gujarat Giants: Beth Mooney (captain & wk), Veda Krishnamurthy, Harleen Deol, Phoebe Litchfield, Ashley Gardner, Dayalan Hemlata, Sneh Rana, Tanuja Kanwar, Katherine Bryce, Lee Tahuhu, Meghna Singh.
Playing 11 of Team Mumbai Indians: Harmanpreet Kaur (captain), Hayley Mathews, Yastika Bhatia (wk), Nate Sciver-Brunt, Amelia Karr, Pooja Vastrakar, Amanjot Kaur, Sajeevan Sajna, Shabnim Ismail, SB Kirtan, Saika Ishaq.
