WPL 2026: Harmanpreet Kaur Leads Orange Cap Race As MI Rise To 2nd Position In Points Table

Defending champions Mumbai Indians chased down the target of 193 runs in 19.2 overs on Tuesday (January 13) to secure a big win by seven wickets over Gujarat Giants. In the sixth match of WPL 2026, played at Dr DY Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai, MI rode on Harmanpreet Kaur’s unbeaten 71-run knock from 43 balls to successfully chase down their highest total in WPL history and extend their winning run to two matches.

The win over Ashleigh Gardner-led side on Tuesday helped MI pip them and take the No. 2 position in the WPL 2026 points table. The Mumbai-based franchise have 4 points to their credit from three matches played so far.

GG also have four points from three matches, but due to a better Net Run Rate (NRR), MI are ahead of them.

Royal Challengers

Bengaluru also have four points to their credit, but their NRR is far superior to MI.

With MI’s eighth straight win over GG in WPL, RCB remain the only team in WPL 2026 who have a 100% win record. The Smriti Mandhana-led side opened their campaign with a three-wicket win over MI on Friday (January 9), and then on Monday (January 12), they defeated UP Warriorz by 9 wickets.

WPL 2026 points table

POSITION	TEAM	MATCHES	WINS	LOSSES	NO RESULT	POINTS	NET RUN RATE
1.	Royal Challengers Bengaluru	2	2	0	0	4	+1.974
2.	Mumbai Indians	3	2	1	0	4	+0.901
3.	Gujarat Giants	3	2	1	0	4	+0.105
4.	Delhi Capitals	2	0	2	0	0	-1.350
5.	UP Warriorz	2	0	2	0	0	-2.443

Orange Cap

Harmanpreet’s second unbeaten half-century in WPL 2026 not only helped her lead the Mumbai Indians to their second win of the ongoing season, but she has also moved to the No. 1 position in the list of batters with the most runs in WPL 2026. In three matches of the ongoing season, with the help of two half-centuries, she has amassed a total of 165 runs.

GG’s Sophie Devine, who could only manage to score 8 runs from four balls on Tuesday, is in second place now. She has 141 runs to her name. Her GG skipper, Ashleigh Gardner, is in third place with 134 runs and is followed by RCB opener Grace Harris, who played a super knock of 85 runs from 40 balls in the 144-run chase on Monday.

MI’s Nicola Carey, who remained unbeaten on 38 runs from 23 balls against GG, is in 5th place now with a total of 99 runs to her name in three matches for MI.

Most runs in WPL 2026

POSITION	PLAYER	TEAM	MATCHES	RUNS	BEST SCORE
1.	Harmanpreet Kaur	Mumbai Indians	3	165	74*
2.	Sophie Devine	Gujarat Giants	3	141	95
3.	Ashleigh Gardner	Gujarat Giants	3	134	65
4.	Grace Harris	Royal Challengers Bengaluru	2	110	85
5	Nicola Carey	Mumbai Indians	3	99	40

Purple Cap

Ace spinner Amelia Kerr and medium pacer Nicola Carey dismissed one GG batter each on Tuesday to extend their tally of wickets to 6 in WPL 2026. They are now 2nd and 4th in the list of bowlers with the most wickets in WPL 2026. GG all-rounder Sophie Devine picked up Amanjot Kaur’s wicket in the match against the Mumbai Indians to retain her fifth position in the Purple Cap race. She has 5 wickets in three WPL 2026 matches.

Most wickets in WPL 2026

POSITION	PLAYER	TEAM	MATCHES	WICKETS	BEST FIGURES
1.	Nandini Sharma	Delhi Capitals	2	7	5/33
2.	Amelia Kerr	Mumbai Indians	3	6	3/24
3.	Nadine de Klerk	Royal Challengers Bengaluru	2	6	4/26
4.	Nicola Carey	Mumbai Indians	3	6	3/37
5.	Sophie Devine	Gujarat Giants	2	5	2/21

Delhi Capitals’ Nandini Sharma, who will be in action on Wednesday (January 14) against UP Warriorz, is leading the Purple Cap race. In two matches, she has accounted for the dismissal of 7 batters.