🏏WPL 2026: Match 15: RCB W vs DC W at Vadodara on 24/01/26🏏 - Page 3

RCB have had a near invincible tournament so far. They've won big and narrow, all their batters have come to the fore. DC have had a less complete show. It leaves them needing three wins in their remaining three games to guarantee qualifications, two wins in three will leave them depending on other results.

18:30 Local Time, 13:00 GMT: Royal Challengers Bengaluru are flying high. They are the only unbeaten side in the competition, five wins out of five, and the first team to book their place in the finals. These are numbers not usually associated with RCB, but that’s just how dominant they’ve been this season. Every game has thrown up a new match-winner, every pressure moment has found a new hero - very much echoing the men’s team last year. Everything they’ve touched has turned to gold, and right now, they look like clear favourites to go all the way. Standing in their way today are the Delhi Capitals. It’s been a season of two halves for them so far. A disappointing Mumbai leg saw them manage just one win from four games, but they’ve bounced back strongly in Vadodara with a confidence-boosting victory and arrive here with momentum on their side. To knock off this RCB juggernaut, DC will need to be right on top of their game across all three departments. When these two teams last met, Smriti Mandhana led RCB to a comfortable eight-wicket win. Can Jemimah Rodrigues inspire a response, avenge that defeat, and keep Delhi’s revival on track?

Delhi Capitals Women have won the toss and have opted to field

Pitch and Conditions: "We have a brand new, fresh pitch. It looks slightly different than the ones we have played on previously. I am just going to go about 3-4 meters down, there's lot more grass on here, the cracks have got that live grass, I think it is going to be slightly better for batting, maybe even higher scores. The dimensions - 52 meters to my left hand side, 57 to my right and down the ground it's 66 meters. Firstly, the batters will love the extra bit of grass. It has been the most challenging surfaces that we have seen so far. Look at the SR - anything in the channel line or around the fourth stump is difficult to get away, and it is no surprises that when you see the wickets at this venue, it has very much been the channel - straight line. RCB are the best bowling side by a mile in this tournament so far, it has been really about the powerplay. All their wickets have been in that channel or the stump line, that has been really effective. I think, Delhi must-win game for them tonight, if they can get on top of RCB in that powerplay, Shafali Verma and Lizelle Lee can definitely do that, they will love the extra bit of grass and few short boundaries. Hopefully a high-scoring one. 158 is the average score and 166 is the average winning score, and you need few more than that tonight," inform Charles Dagnall and Katey Martin.

Teams:

Royal Challengers Bengaluru Women (Playing XI): Grace Harris, Smriti Mandhana(c), Georgia Voll, Gautami Naik, Richa Ghosh(w), Nadine de Klerk, Radha Yadav, Arundhati Reddy, Shreyanka Patil, Sayali Satghare, Lauren Bell

Delhi Capitals Women (Playing XI): Shafali Verma, Lizelle Lee(w), Laura Wolvaardt, Jemimah Rodrigues(c), Marizanne Kapp, Niki Prasad, Sneh Rana, Chinelle Henry, Shree Charani, Nandni Sharma, Minnu Mani

Smriti Mandhana: We were looking to field. We thought about it today, it is a lot windy, there might not be too much dew. The tournament is such that whenever we wanted to field, we haven't got that. It is a good thing. We are still thinking about doing the small things right. We have one change - Aru is fit and she comes in for Prema.

Jemimah Rodrigues: We are going to bowl first. Under lights the ball will skid on and the dew also will come on. It will still stay low. We have two changes - Henry is in and Manni is back. The youngsters coming in bring in a lot of energy.

Delhi Capitals Women have won the toss and have opted to field

Recent Performance

Last five matches

RCB-W W W W W W
DC-W L L W L W

RCB have had a near invincible tournament so far. They've won big and narrow, all their batters have come to the fore. DC have had a less complete show. It leaves them needing three wins in their remaining three games to guarantee qualifications, two wins in three will leave them depending on other results.

Chinelle Henry to Smriti, FOUR, no slip for Smriti and the ball goes exactly in that direction. This would have been a regulation catch. They had one to Harris but not to Smriti. Full and shaping away,

The ball is talking: Henry and Kapp have got the ball to nip around, causing problems to RCB's openers. They have been unlucky so far but expect a wicket or two before the powerplay ends.

Back to back fours for Smriti from Nandini Sharma

5.3

W

Marizanne Kapp to Grace Harris, out Caught by Wolvaardt!! There it is.. Something was bound to happen. Harris looks to play the big shot and perishes in the process. Delhi have their breakthrough and Jemi is ecstatic. Grace Harris c Wolvaardt b Marizanne Kapp 9(13) [4s-2]

Marizanne Kapp to Grace Harris, THATS OUT!! Caught!!