MUM­BAI – Hay­ley Matthews’ all around bril­liance car­ried the Mum­bai In­di­ans Women in­to the fi­nal of the Women’s Pre­mier League (WPL) via a 47-run vic­to­ry over the Gu­jarat Gi­ants Women in their Elim­i­na­tor match at the Brabourne Sta­di­um in In­dia on Thurs­day.

Matthews blast­ed 77 from 50 balls and to­geth­er with Nat Sciv­er-Brunt, who al­so scored 77, pro­peled the Mum­bai In­di­ans Women to a com­pet­i­tive 213 for four from their 20 overs,

The West In­dies Women’s cap­tain then re­turned to snag 3-31 as the Gi­ants were dis­missed for 166 from 19.2 overs.

The Gi­ants were dealt an un­time­ly blow when star all-rounder De­an­dra Dot­tin was ruled out of the match with an in­jury five min­utes be­fore the toss.

They would have been ru­ing their de­ci­sion to field first when Matthews and Sciv­er-Brunt were locked in a 133-run part­ner­ship for the sec­ond wick­et that com­plete­ly changed the mo­men­tum of the game.

Matthews hit 10 fours and three six­es, while Sciv­er Brunt launched 10 fours and two six­es in their part­ner­ship that spanned just 12 overs.

And when Matthews even­tu­al­ly lost her wick­et to Danielle Gib­son, cap­tain Har­man­preet Kaur belt­ed a bound­ary-stud­ded 36 from 12 balls with four six­es and two fours to en­sure the Mum­bai In­di­ans fin­ished strong­ly.

Gib­son took 2-40 from her four overs for the Gi­ants.

The Gi­ants then lost wick­ets at reg­u­lar in­ter­vals dur­ing their chase, as Gib­son, who made 34, Phoebe Litch­field (31) and Bhar­ti Ful­mani (30), all got starts but failed to push on.

The Mum­bai In­di­ans will face the Del­hi Cap­i­tals in the fi­nal on Sat­ur­day.

CMC