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In the fourth match of the Women’s Premier League (WPL) 2026, Gujarat Giants (GG) opening batsman Sophie Devine batted brilliantly against Delhi Capitals (DC) and played a half-century (95). She was unlucky to miss scoring the first century in WPL history by just 5 runs. She had earlier been out on 99 runs. Thanks to his innings, GG team was successful in making a strong start in the match. Let us know his innings and statistics.
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How was Divine’s innings and partnership?
After losing the toss and opting to bat first, GG got a great start from Divine and wicketkeeper batsman Beth Mooney (19). Both made a partnership of 94 runs in 49 balls for the first wicket. However, during this period, Mutthi batted with restraint, while Dewani adopted an aggressive approach and played big shots all around the field. She was out after scoring 95 runs in 42 balls with the help of 7 fours and 8 sixes.
Divine scored 32 runs in one over of Sneh Rana.
Divine’s stormy innings can be gauged from the fact that he scored 32 runs in the over of DC spinner Sneh Rana, who came in the sixth over of the innings. He hit fours on the first 2 balls and then 6 sixes in a row. This has been the most expensive over in WPL history. Earlier this record was in the name of Deepti Sharma of UP Warriors, who gave away 28 runs against Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) in WPL 2025.
Divine hit joint maximum number of sixes in an innings.
With this innings, Devine has now become the batsman who has jointly hit the most number of sixes in an innings in WPL history. In this case, he has equaled Ashley Gardner (8 vs RCB, 2025) and Chinley Henry (8 vs DC, 2025). The big thing is that Divine has done this feat for the second time. Earlier, while playing for RCB in WPL 2023, he had hit 8 sixes against GG.
Third highest individual score in WPL history
Devine’s innings of 95 runs is also the third highest individual score in WPL history. The highest score of this league is also jointly recorded in the name of Divine (99 vs GG, 2023) and UPW’s Georgia Woll (99* vs RCB, 2025). At second place are Alyssa Healy (96* vs RCB, 2023) and Beth Mooney (96* vs UPW, 2025). Similarly, at number three are Divine (95 vs DC, 2026) and Harmanpreet Kaur (95* vs GG, 2024).
How has been Divine’s WPL career?
Divine started his WPL career in the year 2023. So far, she has managed to score 513 runs in 20 matches at an average of 28.50 and strike rate of 162.34. His best performance has been 99 runs. Similarly, so far she has been successful in scoring 3,431 runs in 146 T-20 international matches at an average of 28.12 and strike rate of 120.38. This also includes 1 century and 21 half-centuries.
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