WPL 2026 Points Table After DC vs MI Match: Delhi Capitals Jump Up To 4th Place, Harmanpreet Grabs Orange Cap

Days after reeling at the bottom of the WPL points table, Delhi Capitals made a little but notable jump with a thrilling win over defending champions Mumbai Indians on Tuesday. Jemimah Rodrigues led Delhi Capitals to a much-needed

seven-wicket win over Mumbai Indians in the WPL with a composed, unbeaten fifty on a challenging surface.

Chasing 155, Delhi started strongly through Lizelle Lee and Shafali Verma before slipping in the middle overs. Jemimah steadied the innings and finished the job with support from Marizanne Kapp. Earlier, the Mumbai Indians again struggled in the powerplay but Nat Sciver-Brunt’s fluent 66 not out and Harmanpreet Kaur’s 41 lifted them to 154 for 5. The win was Delhi’s second of the season, while Mumbai suffered their fourth defeat.

The victory aided DC move up to the 4^th spot, displacing Gujarat Giants. But most importantly, Jemimah & Co. are still alive in the race to the playoffs. RCB stand atop with 10 points and the ‘Q’ mark, while MI, despite the defeat, managed to retain their second position.

WPL 2026 Points Table

POSITION	TEAM	MATCHES	WINS	LOSSES	NO RESULT	POINTS	NRR
1	RCB (Q)	5	5	0	0	10	1.882
2	MI	6	2	4	0	4	0.046
3	UPW	5	2	3	0	4	-0.483
4	DC	5	2	3	0	4	-0.586
5	GG	5	2	3	0	4	-0.864

Orange Cap

Harmanpreet Kaur on Tuesday played a crucial knock against DC, amassing 41 runs off 33 deliveries. With her innings, she dethroned Phoebe Litchfield from the top of the top-scorers chart and bagged the Orange Cap again with 240 runs in 6 matches. Nat Sciver-Brunt, who top-scored with a 45-ball 65, now stands second, while DC’s Lizelle Lee grabbed the third spot following her 46-run innings on Tuesday evening. Litchfield slipped to fourth spot and Meg Lanning is 5^th currently.

POSITION	PLAYER	TEAM	MATCHES	RUNS
1	Harmanpreet Kaur	MI	5	240
2	Nat Sciver-Brunt	MI	5	219
3	Lizelle Lee	DC	5	213
4	Phoebie Litchfield	UPW	5	211
5	Meg Lanning	UPW	5	193

Purple Cap

DC’s Nandini Sharma has been in decent form, but she could pick just one wicket on Tuesday against MI. She returned figures of 1/36, moving up to the third spot on the list of highest wicket-takers of the season.

RCB’s Nadine de Klerk leads the chart with 10 wickets, while Amelia Kerr of MI follows next with as many wickets.

POSITION	PLAYER	TEAM	MATCHES	WICKETS
1	Nadine de Klerk	RCB	5	10
2	Amelia Kerr	MI	5	10
3	Nandini Sharma	DC	5	10
4	Lauren Bell	RCB	5	9
5	Sophie Devine	GG	5	9