DC’s Nandani Sharma has been pushed to second spot despite her 1 for 26 against GG in the three-run defeat, and going past her to the top is Sophie Devine, GG’s star allrounder, who now has 15 wickets to Nandani’s 14 after returning 4 for 37, which also won her the Player-of-the-Match award.
It was Devine’s second haul of three or more wickets in the WPL this season. She hasn’t gone a single match without picking up at least a wicket. Nandani has the same record, of not going a game without at least a wicket, and her 5 for 33 early in the tournament remains one of two five-wicket hauls this season; Shreyanka Patil of Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) has the other one.
Behind Devine and Nandani are MI’s Amelia Kerr and DC’s N Shree Charani on 12 wickets, the RCB duo of Lauren Bell and Nadine de Klerk on 11, and Patil with ten.
Nat Sciver-Brunt, last season’s Orange Cap winner, went to the top of the run-scorers’ table after hitting the first century of the season, 100 not out off 57 balls against RCB. She now has 319 runs – the only one to go past the 300-run mark – and is followed by team-mate Harmanpreet Kaur, who has 260 runs.
Behind them are Phoebe Litchfield of UP Warriorz (UPW) with 243 runs, RCB’s Smriti Mandhana with 236, and DC’s Lizelle Lee with 230.
