As we keep juggling between the Senior Women’s Trophy and the Women’s Big Bash League, here’s your weekly dose of the heady cocktail. And as always, it’s spiked with some absolutely stellar performances by our MI girls. Let’s not waste time ..

Women’s Big Bash League

Harman’s beast mode unleashed!

Try all you want, you CANNOT keep her out. In the three matches she was a part of this week, she smashed a 52 (vs Perth Scorchers), a 47 (vs Sydney Sixers) , and in the one game where she scored only 13 (vs Sydney Thunder), she made sure she picked up two wickets. Yea, that’s another week of Kaptaan Kaur being Kaptaan Kaur.

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A rare Hayley blip

She really has spoilt us with her eight Player of the Match awards in a row. This week though, in the WBBL, was a quiet one: 8(12) vs Sydney Thunder, 31(24) vs Perth Scorchers, 5(6) vs Sydney Sixers.

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Nat’s back, and it’s like she was never away

She may’ve had a couple of months on the cold burner owing to injury, but Nat Sciver-Brunt with her 33-ball 53 has wasted no time in walking right back into her purple patch. Oh, she’s a ledge!

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Amelia-I’ll-do-it-all-Kerr

Just when you think she cannot raise the bar further, Our Mumbai-Kerr ups herself. After a miserly spell of 4-0-16-2 against Brisbane Heat Women, she smashed ten fours in style to rake up a 43-ball 59 and seal the deal for the Hurricanes.

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Chloe starts slow, finishes with a bang

A 16(15) against the Perth Scorchers, a 4(9) against the Adelaide Strikers, and then came the punch: a 13-ball 26 against the Renegades in dusting off the target of 105 in quick time.

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Senior Women’s T20 Trophy

Humariraa maar rahi hai!

A 15-ball 33 against Mizoram Women, followed by a slightly more measured 22-ball 27 in an important stand with Jemimah Rodrigues in the all-important pre-quarter final against Andhra Women, and then an anchored 18 against MP in the quarters to get Mumbai to advance into the semis. She’s putting up her entire range on show!

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Saika’s unstoppable spin-web, Priyanka’s finishing touches

Surely even Spiderman won’t have these many victims caught up in his giant webs. With four wickets for seven runs to single-handedly strangle Saurashtra Women in Bengal’s final league game before the knockouts, Saika Ishaque is having a dream run to derail their chase of 154, set up thanks to a flourishing cameo of 20 off 14 balls by Priyanka Bala.

In the quarter-final against the mighty Railways Women, Saika was once again at her stingy best: 4-0-12-0, to restrict them to an under-par target of 95. In that chase of, post which  Priyanka dropped anchor and was nearly there right until the end to steer Bengal Women home, to book a semis date with Mumbai.

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The Amanjot heartbreak

She had an all-round show (31 with the bat, 1/12 with the ball), but Amanjot Kaur ended up on the wrong side of the result, as Uttarakhand Women inflicted a major surprise, beating them with one wicket to spare in a thriller of a contest in the quarter-final. Earlier in the week, she once again was Punjab Women’s star-batter, with a 30-ball 41 after coming in at number four, and finishing as the top-scorer as the rest of the batting fell apart.

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Vastrakar’s rare off-day, and MP’s subsequent crash-out

She wasn’t quite there with both bat (14 off 16) and ball (0/26), and despite her giving it her all on the field with her captaincy, MP Women couldn’t stop Mumbai Women from sneaking past them in the quarter final.

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Yastika’s smashing start goes in vain

After falling early in the final league game against Delhi Women, Yastika Bhatia came out all guns blazing in the quarter-final against Kerala, smashed a 24-ball 29, but alas, she was all too alone!

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Jinti and raw pace = CARNAGE!

A wicket in the first over, a wicket in the middle when a partnership was growing, and then two at the death to blow away the tail. That’s was Jintimoni Kalita was against the Punjab Women.