Nat Sciver-Brunt’s WPL 2025 supremacy decoded: Focus on boundary percentage, early caution and targeting leg side

“I don’t really know. On any given day, you could get some runs or not,” Nat Sciver-Brunt said after the Women’s Premier League 2025 final. Sportstar breaks down Sciver-Brunt’s season with the bat and what set her apart from the rest: Treading carefully A look at the stats of the top 10 batters in this year’s Orange Cap standings - which includes Ellyse Perry, Hayley Matthews, Shafali Verma, Harmanpreet Kaur, Meg Lanning, Ashleigh Gardner, Beth Mooney, Harleen Deol, and Richa Ghosh - reveals that Sciver-Brunt didn’t bat recklessly. Moreover, she also had the second-lowest dot ball percentage - an improvement from last year’s 42.3 percent - just behind Perry’s 29.6 in the top 10 list, highlighting Sciver-Brunt’s penchant for always looking for runs, either through running between the wickets or finding the boundary. The 2017 World Cup winner might have invented the ‘Natmeg’ shot - a cheeky flick between the legs through backward square-leg - during that tournament, but a deeper look reveals that 235 of these 347 runs on the leg-side were scored between mid-on and forward square-leg this WPL.