Saika Ishaq: The first match of the Women’s Premier League (WPL) 2023 was completely one-sided, with Mumbai Indians women’s team registering a massive 143-run win against Gujarat Giants. In this match, where Mumbai team captain Harmanpreet Kaur won everyone’s heart with the bat, in bowling, 27-year-old left-arm spinner Sayka Ishaq contributed significantly to the team’s victory by taking 4 wickets.
The team of Gujarat Giants got the target of 208 runs in 20 overs in this match. However, the team was reduced to scoring 64 runs in 15.1 overs. In this, Saika got 4 wickets alone by giving just 11 runs in her 3.1 overs bowling. Talking about Sayka, she comes from Bengal and she started her career from Kalighat Women’s Club.
After this Sayka also played in Under-19 and Under-23 tournaments. Since then, she has been seen playing continuously along with becoming an important member of the Bengal women’s team. Apart from this, in the year 2021, Saika impressed with her performance while playing for India Women-D and in the year 2022 for India Women-A.
Impressed everyone with his bowling in the very first match
Sayka Ishaq has now also become the first such bowler in the Women’s Premier League, in whose name the feat of taking 4 wickets in a match has been recorded. Saika took her first wicket in WPL as Annabel Sutherland, whom she did the work of sending to the pavilion on a personal score of just 6.
After this Sayka made her second victim Georgia Wareham. At the same time, in the form of the last 2 wickets, Saika did the work of sending Mansi Joshi and Monika Patel to the pavilion. On the basis of this performance, Sayaka has impressed everyone along with winning their hearts.
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