MI W vs UP W 8th Match WPL 2026: Match Preview, Probable XIs, Pitch Report and Winner Prediction

Mumbai Indians Women (MI W) and UP Warriorz Women (UP W) are ready to face each other in the 8th match of the Women’s Premier League (WPL) 2026 at DY Patil Sports Academy, Navi Mumbai, on Thursday, January 15. This match is scheduled to begin at 7:30 PM IST. Stay tuned with our MI W vs UP W prediction, team preview, pitch report, player stats and winner prediction ahead of this exciting contest.

Mumbai Indians women, who started the tournament with a defeat, but they performed well in the last two games, winning both games easily. In the last match, they won by 7 wickets against Gujarat Women. Moreover, Harmanpreet Kaur performed well due to knock, MI W won comfortably.

On the other hand, UP Warriors Women are a good team, but their performance has been disappointing, as they have lost three consecutive matches so far. So, they will try their best to get their first win against MI Women.

Head-to-Head Record: Till now, a total of 7 T20 WPL matches have been played between these two sides, in which the Mumbai Indians Women performed outstandingly and won 5 matches, while UP Warriorz won twice. Moreover, the Mumbai Indians Women also did well in the last five head-to-head clashes as they won four, so it will be difficult for UP Warriorz to beat them.

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Mumbai Indians Women Preview

The Mumbai Indians have won both the previous matches by giving a strong performance. They also performed well in the last match against the Gujarat Giants and won the match by 7 wickets. Mumbai batted brilliantly despite getting a huge target of 193 in the last match. Certainly, Mumbai won the match in the last match on the basis of their strong batting. They definitely look to continue it next match as well.

Mumbai Indians Women performed brilliantly in the batting department in the last match as they chased down a huge target of 193 runs. While Amanjot Kaur scored 40 runs in 26 balls, Nicola Carey also played an innings of 38 runs in 23 balls. But the most brilliant knock came from skipper Harmanpreet, who played an unbeaten knock of 71 runs in 43 balls and won the match for Mumbai.

Mumbai Indians Women’s bowling is considered excellent, but their performance in the last match was not good. Apart from Shabnim Ismail, the other bowlers proved to be expensive as they conceded a lot of runs. However Shabnim Ismail, Hayley Matthews, Nicola Carey, and Amelia Kerr took a wicket each. But they were unable to stop Gujarat Giants’ battersbto score runs. They must improve in their bowling lineup.

UP Warriorz Women Preview

So far, nothing seems to be going in the UP Warriorz’ favour in this tournament. They have faced consecutive defeats in all three matches played so far. Batting first in the previous match against Delhi Capitals Women, they scored 154 runs but lost the match by seven wickets. The Up Warriors will definitely want to win the match from here at any cost, for which they will have to perform well.

In batting, UP Warriors had performed averagely in the last match as they set a target of 155 runs while batting first against Delhi Women, in which the most important contribution was the innings of 54 runs in 38 balls by captain Meg Lanning. Apart from her, Harleen Deol also played a good innings of 47 runs in 36 balls, but the performance of the other batsmen was disappointing. They must need to do well in the next game to win the match.

In bowling, UP Warriorz bowlers didn’t perform well in the previous game against Delhi. After scoring 154 runs while batting, he needed to give Delhi an early blow, but he failed in doing so. This is why Delhi Capitals batsmen played comfortably and were successful in winning the match without taking any risks. Only Deepti Sharma and Asha Shobhana managed to take wickets, while the rest of the bowlers’ performance was absolutely disappointing.

MI W vs UP W Probably Playing XI 

Mumbai Indians Women: Gunalan Kamalini, Hayley Matthews, Amanjot Kaur, Nat Sciver-Brunt, Harmanpreet Kaur (C), Amelia Kerr, Sajeevan Sajana, Poonam Khemnar, Shabnim Ismail, Sanskari Gupta, Triveni Vasistha

UP Warriorz Women: Kiran Navgire, Meg Lanning (C), Phoebe Litchfield, Harleen Deol, Shweta Sehrawat, Deepti Sharma, Deandra Dottin, Sophie Ecclestone, Asha Sobhana, Shikha Pandey, Kranti Gaud

MI W vs UP W Pitch Report

The pitch at DY Patil Sports Academy, Navi Mumbai, generally offers a batting-friendly surface. Four of the last seven matches have been high scoring at this venue, with 190-plus runs being scored in seven innings. It shows that this ground is excellent for the batters; they will get the opportunity to score high runs. It shows that this ground is like  heaven for the batters. However, the pacers will get wicket-taking opportunities in the initial overs, while the spinners can perform well in the middle overs.

The weather on Thursday at Dr. D.Y. Patil Sports Academy, Navi Mumbai is expected to be sunny, around 33°C, with 0% chance of rain, low 28% humidity and light winds near 11 km/h.

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MI W vs UP W Winner Prediction

Mumbai Indians Women have performed brilliantly in the last match, while UP Warriorz have won three consecutive matches, also looking at the past records, it is clear that Mumbai have always dominated Warriorz. Moreover, Mumbai is currently in brilliant form, so they will be favourites to win this match. 

On the other hand, UP Warriors have good players in the squad who have the ability to perform well in any situation, but right now their performance is not up to expectations, due to which Warriorz is losing matches continuously; however, they will try their best to surprise Mumbai by performing better in this match.

Our Prediction: Mumbai Indians Women

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