🏏WPL 2026: Match 20: DC W vs UPW W at Vadodara on 01/02/26🏏 - Page 6

Congratulations to DCW for their cakewalk type win against listless UPW.

UP Warriorz Women

122/8

Delhi Capitals Women

(18.4/20 ov, T:123) 126/5

Match Over

Stats view

Current RR: 6.75

• Last 5 ov (RR): 33/3 (6.60)

Win Probability

DC-W 98.02%

UPW-W 1.98%

Congratulations to DC for winning the match and reaching the semi finals, I mean Eliminator. It was in their hands and they grabbed it with both hands.

DC Women Innings

18.4 Deepti Sharma to Rodrigues, FOUR runs

Four to finish!! DC make it to the Eliminator!! Rodrigues plays a Jem of a knock to eliminate her former captain's side from the WPL. Fittingly, it's a confident stroke to wrap up win. She advances a bit down the crease, and drives this length ball outside off to go wide of mid-off

DC Women won by 5 wickets (with 8 balls remaining) — 126/5

Delhi again made it tough for themselves but the calming presence of their captain, Jemimah Rodrigues has ensured they meet Gujarat Giants in the Eliminator. Mumbai and UP Warriorz are out. There were certainly nerves in the Delhi camp as they lost Lee early and then Shafali struggled. Wolvaardt gave two chances and had they been taken, this might have gotten even more trickier for Delhi. The South African capitalised on that and struck boundaries sweetly to add 73 for the 2nd wicket. But a flurry of wickets gave hope for UPW-W and MI-W but Jemi saw her side through with a composed knock. UPW-W just didn't have the runs on the board and also their catching left a lot to be desired.

It looked so messy when DC needed 22 runs off as many balls amid a bunch of wickets. But Rodrigues held her nerve, ensured she was calm amid the storm, and took DC into the top three. She ends undefeated on 34* off 18 balls even as she saw one batter after another depart at the other end. But DC's chase was set up by Wolvaardt's 47 off 36 balls.

Yay glad DCW won

Meg Lanning | UPW-W captain:

Yeah, I thought we fought it out to the end really nicely. Our bowlers did a good job to take it to the second-last over and put Delhi under some pressure. And we created some chances as well, which could have, you know, made the game very different. But yeah, I guess looking back, the batting innings again, unfortunately, it didn't get going and always going to be difficult to defend 120-odd, you need everything to go your way.

(on the season) We just haven't been consistent enough. We've had patches of games where we played well and put the opposition under pressure, but we've sort of given it back to them a little bit too easily. So that's probably the biggest thing for me is, yeah, just doing it for longer. And then when you do get a team under pressure, really, really making it difficult for them to stay in the game. And we just haven't been able to do that throughout the whole season, unfortunately. And yeah, it hasn't been the season that we wanted, obviously, and disappointing to finish off with a loss tonight.

(on Shipra Giri) Absolutely, I thought she did an excellent job. She was, you know, keeping up to the stumps, you know, some difficult balls to do that too, and she wanted to take that challenge on and I thought she did it beautifully and we were able to build some pressure that way. So yeah, certainly, a really, really nice night for her, I guess, to see her come into the side and do well and hopefully that gives her some confidence.

(on bowling out Ecclestone and Shikha) Yeah, I just wanted to try and bowl the best bowler for that situation. You couldn't save any overs for the back end because it was likely that we weren't going to get there. So whatever the best option was to take a wicket, build some pressure at the time, was what I sort of went with. There were a few three-over spells in there, which is a little bit unusual, but they were bowling well and they're putting them under pressure. So just got to go with it in games like these and then hopefully you can put the opposition under pressure and put ourselves back in the game.

(if she will be back next season?) Yeah, absolutely. I'm still thoroughly enjoying my cricket. I love playing and coming into teams like this and trying to get the best out of people and trying to get the best out of myself too. I'm very competitive. I love to try and win and that fire is certainly still there. So absolutely, I'll be back next year and hopefully a bit longer than that as well.

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Jonathan Batty | DC-W head coach: Yeah, we do like making hard work of these chases at times, but obviously delighted that the captain got us over the line there at the end.

(on Jemi) Yeah, look, I'm really proud that we made the finals and I think Jemi's been outstanding. I think she's brilliant with her leadership every single game. Her decision-making autonomously has been really, really good. And obviously shown some leadership with the bat today. So no, we've had a bit of a roller coaster tournament so far. We've messed up a couple of run chases. We've had lots of contributions from different players at times. But yeah, really pleased to obviously seal that berth in the playoffs. Yeah, we've certainly played a little bit of hard work this season. It's been a roller coaster and we haven't always played our best cricket. But after three years where we've absolutely dominated the league phase and finished top and that's obviously no guarantee of winning the trophy. Look, I'm just happy to qualify for the playoffs now.

(on the squad) Yeah, we've got a completely different squad. We've had a really nice squad together and they've stood up at times and played really, really well as a unit. But yeah, it's always a challenge when you get a new skipper. And obviously one through Jemi has been the vice-captain this year over the last three years as well. So we've been getting it ready for this moment this year. So she's grown in that relationship now throughout a great four tournament as well. So no, I'm really proud of what we've done so far.

(on the Eliminator) Yeah, third time against the Giants. Yeah, we've messed up a couple of run chases there. Two incredible games of cricket, obviously great for the neutral, not so great for DC. But we've got lots to reflect on the way we went about our work in those games. And that's the way cricket comes out. There's lots of decisions I don't think we did wrong. On another day in both those games, we would have got over the line and secured the playoff spot a couple of games ago. So we look forward to going against GG again. Didn't win against them twice and hopefully third time lucky.

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Jemimah Rodrigues | DC-W captain: I think we were always assured that we are a good team. There was never a doubt about that. It was just about coming out there, keeping things simple and executing. And even today, I think even before we started, there was a different kind of calmness about this team. We knew how important this game was, but everyone was really calm, really professional with their work. And I think that speaks of how we played today.

(on their bowlers) Yeah, I think our bowlers have been doing a great job. We know T20 cricket is never easy for the bowlers, but I think our bowlers have been brave enough to stick to their plans and to keep executing to their strengths rather than thinking about the batter's strengths. And I think that is something that has worked for us, clarity and sticking to your strengths.

(what were the plans when bowling?) I think it's both ways. It just depends on the situation. We always, whenever we speak in the team meeting, JB (Jonathan Batty, head coach) keeps talking about how we need to stick to our strengths first and then we can always plan for a batter, maybe what field, what is better, what are they good at or which area we can block. But I think it's more to do with sticking to your strengths and the balance of the game.

(was there a plan to get the runs quickly?) It was just about winning today. I think there was nothing about the run rate. But yeah, we still speak about how we can be positive. I think it's in low scores, it's very important. A lot of times we think of the score and play, rather what's the ball and play according to the merit. And when you do that, I think it's very simple. So I think the way Wolvey also, you know, today was a different role where we saw Shifu taking singles, which is very mature of her. While Wolvey was going attacking. So I think that speaks about this team and how we're improving every day.

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Marizanne Kapp | Player of the Match: Look, to be honest, it's hard to be happy if one of your skills is down. But I'm just happy with the win, to finally contribute and us winning and going through. That's all that matters. If I can wait for the last few days, I think that actually works in my favour for the last three overs. But I was lucky to pick up wickets. Any team, if you get them few down in a power play, you have a good chance of winning. So just again happy to have struck.

(pressure on her?) Yeah, look, there's always pressure on you, especially as an international, to perform and to lead the bowling attack. Again, first few games, probably didn't get the wickets that I would have liked, but as long as we're winning, I'm happy.

Catching efficiency in WPL 2026

83.7% - DC (7 dropped catches)

79.0% - RCB (9)

75.0% - MI (11)

69.5% - GG (14)

67.5% - UPW (12 dropped)

Most PoTM awards in WPL

8 - Harmanpreet Kaur

6 - Marizanne Kapp*

5 - Jess Jonassen

5 - Nat-Sciver Brunt

5 - Grace Harris

After 24 days and 20 games, the round-robin stage of WPL 2026 is done. It went down all the way, with the second Eliminator spot being clinched on the final night. DC's win means they now face Gujarat Giants for a place in the final. Just two more matches to go. The Eliminator and the final.

Happy to see DC won! Congratulations to Jemimah and Kapp for winning the POTM!

A DC vs RCB final will be interesting!! But I think GG has more chances!

Details for the next match--

Gujarat Giants Women vs Delhi Capitals Women, Eliminator, Women's Premier League 2026 - Commentary

Series: Women's Premier League 2026

Venue: BCA Stadium, Kotambi, Vadodara

Date & Time: Tomorrow, 7:30 PM LOCAL