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Most Wickets in WPL 2023: Highest wicket-taker in Women’s Premier League 2023 full list

Gurpreet Singh
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Most Wickets in WPL 2023: Highest wicket-taker in Women's Premier League 2023 full list

The inaugural edition of the Women’s Premier League has finally reached its business end, with the twenty league matches resulting in the bottom two placed teams in Royal Challengers Bangalore Women and Gujarat Giants Women, being eliminated from the tournament.

The tournament so far has been dominated by the overseas cricketers in both batting and the bowling department. Four out of the top-5 leading run-scorers in WPL 2023 so far have been Australians, in the list where an Indian name (Shafali Verma) only appears from the sixth position onwards.

In fact, apart from Shafali Verma and Harmanpreet Kaur, none of the Indian batters have come up with consistent or notable performances in WPL 2023 so far.

Most Wickets in WPL 2023

Even in the bowling department, four of the top-5 leading wicket-takers in WPL 2023 so far are the overseas picks. England and UP Warriorz bowling allrounder Sophie Ecclestone is at the top spot thus far with 14 wickets across 8 innings, at a strike rate and economy rate of 13.5 and 6.22 runs per Over respectively.

The one Indian bowler who has managed to impress one and all in WPL 2023 so far is Mumbai Indians Women’s left-arm spinner from South Kolkata- Saika Ishaque.

Presently placed at the third spot in the list, Saika has scalped 13 wickets across 8 innings so far, at a strike rate and economy rate of 13.0 and 6.81 runs per Over respectively. Her contribution has been vital in MI Women’s journey towards sealing the playoffs spot, who will now face UP Warriorz in the ‘Eliminator’ scheduled to take place on March 24 (Friday).

Highest wicket-taker in Women’s Premier League 2023 full list

PlayerInnsWicketsEconomy rate
Hayley Matthews10165.94
(Mumbai Indians Women)
Sophie Ecclestone9166.61
(UP Warriorz Women)
Issy Wong10156.46
(Mumbai Indians Women)
Amelia Kerr10156.45
(Mumbai Indians Women)
Saika Ishaque10157.00
(Mumbai Indians Women)

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Gurpreet Singh

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Gurpreet Singh is a Cricket writer at The Sportsrush. His platonic relationship with sports had always been there since childhood, but Cricket managed to strike a special, intimate nerve of his heart. Although his initial dream of playing the sport at the highest level couldn't come to fruition, Gurpreet did represent the state of Jharkhand at the under-14 level. However, almost like taking a pledge to never let the undying passion for Cricket fade away even a tad, he made sure to continue the love relationship by assigning the field of journalism as an indirect Cupid. He thus, first finished his bachelor's in journalism and then pursued the PG Diploma course in English journalism from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC). Soon after and since 2019, he has been working at The Sportsrush. Apart from sports, he takes keen interest in politics, and in understanding women and gender-related issues.

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