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Royal Challengers Bengaluru Women beat Delhi Capitals Women by six wickets in the Final of the WPL 2026 to win their second WPL title. DC reached their 4th successive WPL final and have lost all of them. They have now lost two finals to Mumbai Indians and two to RCB Women. Delhi Capitals Women started really well putting up 49 runs for the first wicket partnership before Shafali Verma fell for 20. Lizelle Lee continued to motor along but soon she was dismissed as Delhi Capitals were reduced to 72/2 in 7.3 overs. The game was right in the balance. Delhi captain Jemimah Rodrigues came into bat and showed intent straight away. Jemimah Rodrigues completed her half-century and put Delhi in a dominant position. The last four overs were carnage from Delhi Capitals as Chinelle Henry smashed 35 runs of just 15 balls while Wolvaardt scored 44 runs of 25 balls as Delhi Capitals Women had a grand finish. They reached 203/4.
In the chase for RCB-W it was their captain Smriti Mandhana who stole the show with a classy 87 while Australian Georgia Voll scored a half century. They made a chase of more than 200 look very easy and got to the target in the final over when Radha Yadav smashed couple of boundaries to Shree Charani to win them the Title. It is also the first time that RCB are the defending champions in both IPL and WPL simultaneously. Let us look at how this season panned out and the winners list in the history of WPL. We also take a look at the orange and purple cap leaderboard in this article.
WPL Winner List
- 2023 – Mumbai Indians Women
- 2024 – Royal Challengers Bengaluru Women
- 2025 – Mumbai Indians Women
- 2026 – Royal Challengers Bengaluru Women
Orange Cap Leader board
- Smriti Mandhana (RCB-W) – 377 runs
- Harmanpreet Kaur (MI-W) – 342 runs
- Nat Sciver-Brunt (MI-W) – 321 runs
- Lizelle Lee (DC-W) – 320 runs
- Laura Wolvaardt (DC-W) – 317 runs
Purple Cap Leader board
- Sophie Devine (GG-W) – 17 wickets
- Nandani Sharma (GG-W) – 17 wickets
- Nadine de Klerk (RCB-W) – 16 wickets
- Amelia Kerr (MI-W) – 14 wickets
- Shree Charani (DC-W) – 14 wickets
