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A tale of Deepti’s dominance: fifty with the bat, hat-trick with the ball for UP Warriorz

Poulomi Chakraborty

Deepti Sharma's duel excellence in WPL 2024 (Source: @ImTanujSingh/x.com)Deepti Sharma's duel excellence in WPL 2024 (Source: @ImTanujSingh/x.com)

A cricket match, the thrills fly with a blistering knock or with a magical spell, but when one player delivers both, the madness crosses beyond the sky. Whenever it's about an Indian all-rounder, people think of someone like Ravindra Jadeja, but there is another superhuman.

Deepti Sharma, one of the min faces of the Indian Women’s side, is one of the sharpest all-rounder on the field who speaks with her reflex. Just not in the international, the big stage of the Women’s Premier League has already witnessed her all-round brilliance.

In the 2024 season of the tournament, Deepti smashed a half-century along with an outstanding hat-trick against the Delhi Capitals Women. Even after UP Warriorz released her, her dominance that night still echoes loudly.

Deepti raises her bat with a fiery half-century

After the IPL was introduced to world cricket, the T20 format underwent a revolution, but women’s cricket was running behind. Then came the Women’s Premier League, a game-changer that unlocked a new era of stars and jaw-dropping performances. Among the rich history of the tournament, Deepti Sharma’s all-round brilliance against the Delhi Capitals Women in WPL 2024 still stands tall.

While batting first in the match, Alyssa Healy came to open the innings with Kiran Navgire, but Navgire’s dismissed early, scoring only five runs. As the pressure mounted over the UP Warriorz, Deepti Sharma joined the skipper and stitched a crucial partnership. But after Healy was dismissed, they lost some quick wickets.

At that time, the Warriorz needed a saviour, and Deepti Sharma tightened the grip and guided the team towards a grand total. After reaching the half-century mark in 45 balls, she played a crucial knock of 59 runs in 48 balls with a strike rate of 122.91.

A hat-trick makes this match echo through time

After her electrifying knock in the first innings, the world was amazed by her heroics. But when the fans thought the heroics were already over, Deepti Sharma held her brilliance back with the ball at where she left with the bat. While defending the total, she secured her first scalp, removing captain Meg Lanning in 60 runs.

In the match, Deepti stunned the fans with an outstanding hat-trick, but it came thrillingly. After the 14th over, she came back to attack in the 19th over and sent back Annabel Sutherland in just six runs. In the very next delivery, she sent back Arundhati Reddy on a golden duck. After securing Reddy’s dismissal, she registered the first hat-trick in WPL’s history.

As the fans were in awe of her masterclass, she marked her fourth scalp on the day, dismissing Shikha Pandey in the same over. In front of Deepti Sharma’s ruthless performance, the DC batters had a nightmare, but the match witnessed a thrilling finish.

Just when a stunning chase seemed within reach, Grace Harris removed Titas Sadhu and flipped the script, sealing a thrilling one-run win for UP Warriorz. The international stage witnessed her brilliance, but with that all-round brilliance wrote a history in WPL.