WPL 2026: RCB Take No. 1 Position In Points Table, Grace Harris 3rd In Orange Cap Race

Royal Challengers Bengaluru chased down the target of 144 runs in just 12.1 overs on Monday (January 12) to secure a big win by 9 wickets over UP Warriorz in match No. 5 of the Women’s Premier League (WPL) 2026 played at Dr DY Patil Sports Academy in Navi Mumbai. RCB skipper Smriti Mandhana won the toss and opted to bat first, after which they managed to restrict the UPW to just 143/5 in their quota of 20 overs. The Meg Lanning-led side was struggling at 50/5 in 8.2 overs before Deepti Sharma (45*) and Deandra Dottin (40*) added an unbeaten 93 runs for the sixth wicket to help them post a decent total on the board.

But the target of 144 runs didn’t prove too much for the Bengaluru-based franchise, who rode on Grace Harris’s 85-run knock from

40 balls and Mandhana’s unbeaten 47 from 32 balls to seal the deal.

The win on Monday is RCB’s second straight win in WPL 2026, and with a total of four points and a net run rate of +1.964, they now top the WPL 2026 points table.

On the other hand, after losing their second WPL 2026 match in a row, UP Warriorz have now dropped to the last position. They have 0 points, and their net run rate is -2.443.

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.	Gujarat Giants	2	2	0	0	4	+0.350
3.	Mumbai Indians	2	1	1	0	2	+1.175
4.	Delhi Capitals	2	0	2	0	0	-1.350
5.	UP Warriorz	2	0	2	0	0	-2.443

Orange Cap

Grace Harris hammered 85 runs from just 40 balls for RCB on Monday in the 144-run chase. Her super show with the bat helped her bag the Player Of The Match (POTM) award, and she now also moves to the No. 3 position in the list of batters with the most runs in WPL 2026. In two matches for RCB, she has 110 runs to her credit.

UP Warriorz No. 3 batter Phoebie Litchfield is in fourth place with 98 runs to her name in two matches. She made 78 runs against GG on Saturday and scored 20 against RCB.

New Zealand’s Sophie Devine, who is part of Gujarat Giants in WPL 2026, continues to lead the Orange Cap race. She has 133 runs to her credit in two matches played so far. She is followed by GG teammate and captain Ashleigh Gardner. Gardner, who played a knock of 65 runs in GG’s first match of the WPL 2026 season against UP Warriorz on Saturday, scored 49 runs from 26 balls on Sunday. She overall has 114 runs to her name in two matches.

Most runs in WPL 2026

POSITION	PLAYER	TEAM	MATCHES	RUNS	BEST SCORE
1.	Sophie Devine	Gujarat Giants	2	133	95
2.	Ashleigh Gardner	Gujarat Giants	2	114	65
3.	Grace Harris	Royal Challengers Bengaluru	2	110	85
4.	Phoebie Litchfield	UP Warriorz	2	98	78
5.	Lizelle Lee	Delhi Capitals	2	96	86

Purple Cap

South African all-rounder Nadine de Klerk, who dismissed four Mumbai Indians batters in the first match of WPL 2026, picked up two wickets in her first two balls on Monday as well. She overall finished the match with figures of 2 for 28 in four overs. De Klerk has 6 wickets to her name in WPL 2026, and she has now jumped to the No. 2 position in the list of bowlers with the most wickets in WPL 2026.

Most wickets in WPL 2026

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

Only Nandini Sharma of Delhi Capitals is ahead of her in the Purple Cap race.

The 24-year-old cricketer from Chandigarh, who made her WPL debut for Delhi Capitals on Sunday against Mumbai Indians in Navi Mumbai, has 7 wickets to her credit in two matches played so far. Nandini, who picked up 2 wickets for 26 runs on her WPL debut, dismissed five GG batters on Sunday and also took a hat-trick in the last over of the Gujarat Giants innings.