Kiran Navagire scored 53 runs in 43 balls.

UP Warriors batsman Kiran Navagire could not find a sponsor for her bat in WPL i.e. Women’s Premier. Because of this, Navagire came out to bat by writing the name of former Indian team captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni on his bat. Navagire played a brilliant half-century innings of 53 runs in 43 balls and contributed significantly to the team’s victory.

Navgire came out to bat by writing Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s name MSD in short form and his jersey number 07 on the bat. He wrote Dhoni’s name on the back side of the bat.

Dhoni’s photo on social media as well
Kiran Navagire has also put Dhoni’s photo on his social media account. Navagire is active on Instagram. He has put MS Dhoni’s photo in his profile picture. Navagire has more than 4500 followers on Instagram.

Kiran Navagire’s Instagram account.

The team had lost 3 wickets in the powerplay itself, then Navagire took over
Chasing the target of 170 runs, the team of UP Warriors lost 3 wickets in the powerplay itself. Kiran Navagire took over from here, scoring 53 runs. After Navagire, Harris and Eccleston overturned the match with aggressive batting to win their team. Alyssa Healy 7, Shweta Sehrawat 5, Tahlia McGrath 0, Deepti Sharma 11, Simran Shaikh 0 and Devika Vaidya were dismissed for 4 runs in the rest of the UP batters.

UP Warriors bought for Rs 30 lakh
Born in Solapur, Maharashtra, Kiran is playing for Uttar Pradesh Warriors in the Women’s Premier League. In the auction, the franchise bought him for a base price of Rs 30 lakh. She is from Maharashtra but, in domestic cricket she plays for Nagaland team.

Made debut for India in 2022
Navagire made his debut for India in September 2022. He played his first T20 International match against England. She was dismissed after scoring 7 runs in her debut.

started playing cricket with the village boys
Talking to Geo Cinema before the start of WPL, Kiran Navgire had said that I started playing cricket only after watching Dhoni. I have followed Dhoni since he won the World Cup for India in 2011. I didn’t know there was such a thing as women’s cricket. I had started playing cricket casually with the village boys. After that I fell in love with this sport.

UP won by 3 wickets
UP Warriors defeated Gujarat Giants by 3 wickets in a thrilling match of Women’s Premier League on Monday. Batting first, Gujarat scored 169 runs losing 6 wickets in 20 overs. In reply, UP chased the target in the last over. UP needed 53 runs off the last 18 balls. The team’s batter Grace Harris hit an aggressive fifty and gave UP the win. He scored an unbeaten 59 off 26 balls. He was awarded the Player of the Match for this performance. Kim Garth took 5 wickets from Gujarat.