TORONTO (AP) — Indiana Fever guard Kelsey Mitchell sat out the fourth quarter of Tuesday night’s 101-95 win at Toronto because she was overheated, coach Stephanie White said.
The WNBA's second-leading scorer, Mitchell had eight points in the span of less than a minute late in the third quarter to reach 29 points for the game. She then went to the locker room and did not return to the floor at steamy Scotiabank Arena.
“This is two games in a row where we played in really, really hot environments,” White said. “All indications are right now that she was just overheated.”
Mitchell scored 20 points in 36 minutes on Sunday as the Fever needed overtime to win 95-91 at Atlanta.
Last October, Mitchell was sent to a hospital to receive fluids after going to the floor with leg cramps in the third quarter of a 107-98 overtime loss to Las Vegas in the decisive Game 5 of the WNBA semifinal series.
White said she wasn’t aware of any link between Tuesday’s incident and last year's.
Mitchell scored 16 points in the first quarter against the Tempo. She scored at least 20 points for the 20th consecutive game, matching Las Vegas’ A’ja Wilson for the longest such streak in WNBA history.
“She just can get a shot at any time,” White said. “She gets a shot for herself, her gravity creates shots for everybody else. It’s nice to know that you can give her the ball and let her go to work. There aren’t a lot of players that can just create the kinds of shots that she does.”
Mitchell shot 11 for 16 Tuesday and made 4 of 6 from 3-point range. She was 3 for 3 at the free-throw line.
Mitchell came in averaging a career-high 24.2 points per game. Wilson leads the WNBA in scoring at 26.1 points.
Caitlin Clark added 24 points Tuesday in her first visit to Canada as a player as the Fever won their fifth straight and 10th of 12.
Clark and Mitchell have each scored 20 or more in the same game 16 times this season, a WNBA record. Diana Taurasi and Cappie Pondexter did it 15 times with Phoenix in 2008.
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Indiana Fever's Kelsey Mitchell (0) scores past the Toronto Tempo defence during the first half of a WNBA basketball game in Toronto on Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2026. (Chris Young/The Canadian Press via AP)
Indiana Fever's Kelsey Mitchell (0) drives as Toronto Tempo's Kia Nurse (11) and Marina Mabrey (3) defend during the first half of a WNBA basketball game in Toronto on Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2026. (Chris Young/The Canadian Press via AP)
BIRMINGHAM, England (AP) — Pakistan fielded a new-look team but the same old problems resurfaced as it plunged to 100-7 at lunch after being put into bat by England in the third and final cricket test at Edgbaston on Wednesday.
The touring team, which caused a major surprise by sending seven players home after its second-test defeat at Lord's, plus the head coach and the bowling coach, made four changes to the side but the batters were all at sea yet again.
England claimed a first breakthrough when the recalled Saim Ayub was trapped lbw for a duck to give quick bowler Ollie Robinson his 100th test wicket.
Jofra Archer then forced Azan Awais into offering mid-on fielder Josh Tongue a low, diving catch off a leading edge.
Abdullah Shafique was next to go, caught low down by Dan Lawrence at third slip off Robinson.
Shan Masood became the fourth wicket to fall when he lobbed the ball to mid-wicket off fast bowler Archer following a poor cross-bat stroke.
Fellow paceman Tongue then removed Pakistan captain Babar Azam before dismissing debutants Ghazi Ghori and Imran Randhawa, lbw and clean bowled respectively.
Saud Shakeel, who made a fighting 97 in a losing cause at Lord's, was the one shining light for Pakistan as he reached lunch on 37 not out. Razaullah Khan, another debutant, was unbeaten on 11.
England took an unassailable 2-0 lead in the series after beating Pakistan by 194 runs at Lord's.
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England's Josh Tongue appeals unsuccessfully, during day one of the third cricket test match between England and Pakistan, at Edgbaston, in Birmingham, England, Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2026. (Mike Egerton/PA via AP)
England's Jofra Archer, left, celebrates the wicket of Pakistan's Azan Awais, during day one of the third cricket test match between England and Pakistan, at Edgbaston, in Birmingham, England, Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2026. (Mike Egerton/PA via AP)
Pakistan's Azan Awais walks off the pitch, after being dismissed by England's Jofra Archer, during day one of the third cricket test match between England and Pakistan, at Edgbaston, in Birmingham, England, Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2026. (Mike Egerton/PA via AP)
England's Ollie Robinson celebrates the wicket of Pakistan's Abdullah Shafique, caught out by Dan Lawrence, during day one of the third cricket test match between England and Pakistan, at Edgbaston, in Birmingham, England, Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2026. (Mike Egerton/PA via AP)
England's Josh Tongue, right, celebrates the wicket of Pakistan's Ghazi Ghori, during day one of the third cricket test match between England and Pakistan, at Edgbaston, in Birmingham, England, Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2026. (Mike Egerton/PA via AP)
England's Ollie Robinson appeals, during day one of the third cricket test match between England and Pakistan, at Edgbaston, in Birmingham, England, Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2026. (Mike Egerton/PA via AP)
