GG vs UPW highlights, WPL 2026: Gujarat Giants win by 10 runs against UP Warriorz

It is the Gujarat Giants who have ended up victorious in this game, but it was hard work. They have dominated for the most part, but during that middle phase when Litchfield and Sehrawat were batting, it did seem like things would get tricky but once those two were scalped, it was one-way traffic. That's it from us for today folks do join for out next game later in the evening between Mumbai and Delhi.

Well, Sehrwat has fallen here, and Phoebe Litchfield has fallen too. She tried to play the inside-out shot against Sophie Devine and got caught on the boundary. The momentum of this game seems to have changed yet again here. UP Warriorz could have done with a few more partnerships through the middle.

The counterassault is on here. Both Sherawat and Litchfield are taking the attack on to the Giants. It is a proper range, hitting from Sherawat since she has come. He is tall and has long-levers and getting enough behind her shots to clear the in-field and also a thing which is working out for UP is they have a left-hand and right-hand players in the middle which will allow them to target both sides of the boundaries.

Litchfield is playing a cracking innings here. She is getting those boundaries away with minimal risk shots, and that is always a sign of a generational talent. And there is no introduction needed of her at this venue as she slammed a sublime ton during the World Cup semifinal against India. As we update, Meg Lanning has fallen. It was a bit of a nothing innings from her, and Warhem picks up Harleen Deol, too.

Both Renuka and Kashvee have been able to swing through the air in those earlier overs and good on skipper Gardner who kept them in the attack unlike Meg Lanning who went in with over spells which can always be a double edged sword and in the afternoon we have seen UP coming on the wrongside of it.

It is going to be a tough chase for UP Warriorz; they will need a good start in the powerplay in the first six overs. For the Giants its all about scalping wickets. This is still a preety good batting strip and under lights it might get even better. Intresting chase coming up do stay with us.

That is a gigantic total for the Gujarat Giants winning the toss and opting to bowl first, with the number of bowling at disposal Meg Lanning would not have anticipated them to give away these many runs. More than poor bowling, the wicket has been superb for the batters. Ash Gardner and Anushka Sharma have been quite superb through the middle overs, and their partnership was the key behind that score. Warriorz have a massive chase on their hands do stay with us to get all the updates.

Well 100-run partnership has come to an end, and it is Anushka Sharma who finally perishes. Dottin did slip in the slower one under the bat through the day, and Anushka tried to time that one instead of using her power and ended up giving a straight catch to the long-on fielder. The stage is set for Giants they can make this score anything. Winning the toss and opting to bowl first Meg Lanning would be wondering if they should have batted first.

Anushka Sharma has looked good here since she walked in. He compsure has been top-notch, and in addition to that, she has also managed to pick her boundary areas quite smartly. Batting in the middle order is an important skill to have, which is to find the boundaries through the middle overs with risk-free cricket and mind you, she is in her debut and seems like quite a talent.

Shikha Pandey bowled the final over of the powerplay and got rid of Sophie Devine. It was a fuller delivery, which the batter tried to squeeze through the mid-wicket boundary. Obviously, she would have wanted it go a bit finer than what it eventually did. She ended up giving a simple catch to cow-corner. Neverthless they have a platform do the Gujarat Giants to get a good score on the board.

Three overs into the innings, Meg Lanning has already opted to use three seamers here early on. There is not much from the surface, usually the games in the noon, the pitch tends to stick a bit, but today the ball has come in straight lines and does seem like a belter of a surface for GG to make the most of. Both Mooney and Devine time and again through their international career has shown time and again that they have the skill set to hit some hefty blows.

"We are here for the first of two games today. We are on pitch number 4, two over from yesterday's game and it looks like a pretty good deck. The boundaries are 53 metres to my right, 58 to the left, and 66 metres straight down the ground. There’s good grass cover as well. We did see a little more turn than expected yesterday. It was the first game, so there were a few nerves around, but what really stood out to me was the death overs. RCB didn’t quite nail their execution at the back end, and the key area was right where we’re standing now. The strike rate from this length - the slot - was incredible. Batters moved down the pitch, bowlers missed their length, and anything in that danger zone went at over 200. If you pushed the length a little fuller, or went slightly back of a length with the slower ball, it was far more effective. So I’d be encouraging the UP Warriorz and Gujarat Giants bowlers today to stay out of the slot and hit those fuller lengths - yorkers if you can - especially at the death," analyse Charles Dagnall and Kate Cross.

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"Well, we know that she (de Klerk) has the capacity to score whatever runs are needed in the last over. But yeah, I think we just didn’t bowl one good ball, which was needed in the last over. Sometimes this happens. We gave her two or three chances and when you keep giving a batter chances, they always come back with an even stronger mindset. So yeah, we can’t say the last over didn’t go our way - we got a few chances, but we missed them," Harman said after the match

Beth Mooney, Sophie Devine, Ash Gardner, Bharti Fulmali, Kanika Ahuja, Kashveen Gautam, Georgia Wareham, Renuka Singh, Tanuja Kanwar, Rajeshwari Gaikwad, Titas Sadhu.

Hello and welcome to our live blog of Gujarat taking on UP in the second game of the WPL. It is an afternoon affair, the first one of the season. It is still January, so the temperatures will be kinder to both sets of players. Do stay with us and catch all the live action. It is going to be a fascinating game of cricket.