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“I don’t really know (how she’s been consistent). I ride the highs whilst I can, and I’m pretty sure there’s some lows around the corner, but that’s cricket, isn’t it? On any given day, you could get some runs or not,” Nat Sciver-Brunt stated after the Ladies’s Premier League (WPL) 2025 last.
Whereas the English all-rounder won’t know the key behind her consistency, she should have accomplished one thing proper to run away with the Orange Cap and the ‘Most Valuable Player’ of the season award, aside from serving to Mumbai Indians carry its second WPL title.
“Nat’s commitment; her partner’s expecting and despite that to come here and dominate like she did in the WPL is special for me,” stated MI’s mentor and bowling coach Jhulan Goswami.
Whereas Sciver-Brunt chipped in with 12 wickets this season – together with two essential scalps within the last – it’s her efficiency with the bat that has stood out.
She ended the 2025 version with 523 runs, changing into the primary participant to build up greater than 500 runs in a single season. Furthermore, she additionally turned the primary to cross 1000 runs within the WPL.
Sportstar breaks down Sciver-Brunt’s season with the bat and what set her aside from the remaining:
Treading fastidiously
A have a look at the stats of the highest 10 batters on this 12 months’s Orange Cap standings – which incorporates Ellyse Perry, Hayley Matthews, Shafali Verma, Harmanpreet Kaur, Meg Lanning, Ashleigh Gardner, Beth Mooney, Harleen Deol, and Richa Ghosh – reveals that Sciver-Brunt didn’t bat recklessly.
With the bottom false shot share (11.5) amongst this group, the England worldwide trode fastidiously all through her 10 innings, serving to her notch up scores of 80*, 57, 42, 75*, 18, 37, 38, 69, 77, 30.
One space wherein the 32-year-old has improved this season is her document in opposition to tempo. During the last two seasons, she most well-liked to assault the spinners greater than quick bowlers. Nevertheless, this 12 months has seen her mete out equal therapy to tempo (273 runs in 188 balls) and spin (250 runs in 155 balls).
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Furthermore, she additionally had the second-lowest dot ball share (30), simply behind Perry’s 29.6 within the high 10 checklist, highlighting Sciver-Brunt’s penchant for at all times in search of runs, both by operating between the wickets or discovering the boundary.
Dealing in 1s and 4s
Of all of the batters who took to the crease throughout the 5 franchises, Sciver-Brunt holds the distinctive distinction of scoring in extremes.
She took essentially the most variety of singles (141) and smacked the best variety of fours (84). Subsequent in line in these two parameters are Perry (105 singles) and Lanning (45 fours).
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Throughout her solely two unbeaten knocks in WPL 2025, Sciver-Brunt ran 26 singles and despatched the ball to the boundary 13 instances in opposition to Capitals (February 15), whereas she took 21 singles and scored 13 fours in opposition to UP Warriorz (Feb 26).
By the leg facet
Over the three WPL seasons, the MI all-rounder’s favorite a part of the sphere to attain in has been the leg-side. This 12 months too she has caught to accumulating runs by the on-side regardless of masterfully sending fielders on a leather-based hunt all all through the bottom.
As many as 347 of her 523 runs have come on the leg-side. Even within the earlier two editions, Sciver-Brunt had scored greater than 70 per cent of her runs on this area.
The 2017 World Cup winner might need invented the ‘Natmeg’ shot – a cheeky flick between the legs by backward square-leg – throughout that event, however a deeper look reveals that 235 of those 347 runs on the leg-side have been scored between mid-on and ahead square-leg this WPL.
Nat Sciver-Brunt of Mumbai Indians in motion.
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Nat Sciver-Brunt of Mumbai Indians in motion.
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And when depositing the ball in these areas, Sciver-Brunt likes to both drive or unleash the pull. This previous season, she scored 145 and 115 runs by them, respectively.
After a glowing season within the WPL, Sciver-Brunt will surely hope to experience these highs as a lot as she will be able to with a few house collection in opposition to West Indies and India within the close to future, and an ODI World Cup on the horizon.
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