By Admin 
GGW vs UPW WPL 2026: In the second match of the Women’s Premier League 2026, Gujarat Giants, playing first, have scored 207 runs. Captain Ashley Gardner played an inning of 65 runs. Gujarat has become the first team to cross the 200-run mark in the 2026 season. Gujarat had scored 104 runs in the first 8 overs, but its net run rate slowed down in the next 12 overs. Anushka Sharma also contributed 44 runs.
This is the biggest score of Gujarat Giants in the Women’s Premier League. This is only the third time that Gujarat has scored 200 or more in WPL. Earlier, the highest score of Gujarat Giants was 201 runs, which it made against RCB in the year 2023.
Ashley Gardner’s half century
Gujarat Giants captain Ashley Gardner scored 65 runs in 41 balls. He scored 22 runs in the first 20 balls of his innings. But the captain picked up the pace after that and scored 43 runs in the next 21 balls. Let us tell you that Gardner has also become the batsman who has scored the most fifties for Gujarat Giants in WPL. This was his sixth fifty. Beth Mooney had scored 50 or more for Gujarat 5 times.
Anushka Sharma scored 44 runs playing 30 balls. There was a partnership of 103 runs between him and Gardner. In the last overs, Georgia Wareham played a brilliant inning of 27 runs in 10 balls and helped Gujarat take its score beyond 200. Whereas Bharti Phulmali played a cameo inning of 14 runs in 7 balls. Sophie Ecclestone took 2 wickets for UP. Whereas Shikha Pandey and Diandra Dottin took one wicket each.
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