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Harleen Deol of UP Warriorz and Harmanpreet Kaur, Captain of Mumbai Indians during the Match 8 of the TATA Women’s Premier League 2026 between Mumbai Indians and UP Warriorz at DY Patil Stadium, Navi Mumbai, India, on January 15, 2026. (CREIMAS for WPL)
UP Warriorz Harleen Deol who was retired out in the last match vs Delhi Capitals on Wednesday, bounced back in style with a match-winning half century 24 hours later. On Wednesday, with Harleen batting on 36-ball 47 with 3 overs to go in UPW’s 158/3 run chase, the franchise went left field and retired the Indian out in favour of South African Chloe Tryon. It ultimately didn’t produce the required result as DC went on to win. On Thursday against MI, Harleen scored a scintillating 64 as she powered the UPW to their first win of the season.
Even Mumbai Indians and India skipper Harmanpreet Kaur expressed surprise that Harleen was retired out on Wednesday. “Yeah, definitely. I think she’s shown what, you know, why she’s there in the side and what she can bring to the team. And I think today she batted beautifully and I think she’s someone who always wanted to do well for her team. Yeah, surprised to see she was retired in the last game, but I think she came up with very positive mindset and I hope she’ll continue that,” she said on Thursday.
Talking about the incident, however, Harleen said that she didn’t think too much about it.
“Actually, yesterday also I was batting well but as you saw today, how Chloe can change the scenario. For me I just took it in that way. Chloe is someone who can hit big so probably that didn’t go our way. That is the only thing which happened,” she said after the match.
“Nothing. It’s just normal preparation for me. Nothing different. I was batting well yesterday also. There’s no point just keep stressing on that thing. Honestly yesterday it gave me a lot of confidence in fact, because first two game didn’t go my way. But then I went on and figured out a few things, I was just trying to overhit, this wicket is not something which you know for me as a batter to just keep overhitting and just more on timing based things,” she added.
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