RCB vs DC WPL 2026 Final Live Score: Smriti Mandhana's Bengaluru lift title; heartbreak for Delhi Capitals for 4th time

Nandni Sharma - Emerging player of the season award.

Smriti Mandhana - Orange cap for most runs.

Sophie Devine - Purple cap for most wickets.

Smriti Mandhana is the Player of the Match

10 needed in the final over. Shree Charani to bowl the final over. She starts with two singles in the first two balls. FOURRR!!! Radha Yadav lofts and clears the cover point for a boundary. The India spinner finishes the game with a four. Heartbreak for Delhi Capitals for 4th consecutive time. RCB have won the game by 6 wickets.

Chinelle Henry to bowl the penultimate over. OUTTT!!! The West Indian has the most priced wicket. Smriti Mandhana is cleaned up for 87. The match is not yet over until the final ball is bowled. Mandhana departs for 87.

RCB-W 191/4 (18.4)

OUTTTT!!! Two wickets in two overs for Delhi Capitals. Richa Ghosh tries to go over the top but holes out to Jemimah Rodrigues. Smriti Mandhana is still there in the middle. Nandni Sharma strikes.

RCB-W 181-3(17.4)

OUTTT!!!! Minnu Mani breaks the stand as Georgia Voll holes out to Shafali Verma at long-on. She goes back for 79 off 54 balls. Richa Ghosh comes in the middle. RCB need 27 runs in 18 balls. The 165-run stand between Mandhana and Voll is the highest for any wicket in WPL.

RCB-W 177-2 (17)

Glum faces all around in the Delhi Capitals camp. From co-owner Parth Jindal to Director of Cricket Sourav Ganguly, the faces tell the story as Delhi Capitals need to defend 35 runs in 24 balls.

RCB-W 169/1 (16)

The pair of Smriti Mandhana and Georgia Voll has taken the game away from Delhi Capitals with a 150-plus stand for the second wicket. In fact, Mandhana becomes the fifth player in WPL to score 1000-plus runs in WPL history after Nat Sciver-Brunt (1348), Meg Lanning (1200), Harmanpreet Kaur (1193), and Shafali Verma (1124).

RCB-W 169/1 (16)

Fifty for Smriti Mandhana in just 23 balls. This is the fastest fifty in an WPL final. Another heartbreak loading for Delhi Capitals?

RCB-W 135-1 (13)

RCB are in no mood to let go this match. After an early dismissal of Grace Harris, the pair of Smriti Mandhana and Georgia Voll have put up 91-run stand for the second wicket to steer their team to 100 runs in just 10 overs. Delhi Capitals are in dire need for wickets. Meanwhile, Mandhana goes past Ellyse Perry (972) for most runs for RCB in WPL.

RCB-W 100/1 (10)

Great start for Delhi Capitals in chase as Chinelle Henry knocks out Grace Harris on the first ball of the second over. Delhi Capitals players are over the moon. Harris walks back after 7. Pressure in on Smriti Mandhana and Georgia Voll.

RCB-W 34-1 (4)

Laura Wolvaardt was run out on the last ball for 44 runs as Delhi Capitals finish at 203-4 in 20 overs.

OUTTT!!! Sayali Satghare breaks the partnership as Jemimah Rodrigues holes out to Nadine de Klerk. Rodrigues departs for 57 in just 37 balls. Laura Wolvaardt will key for Delhi Capitals.

DC-W 164-3 (18)

Lost two wickets, never mind. That's been the approach of captain Jemimah Rodrigues ever since Lizelle Lee and Shafali Verma departed. The Delhi Capitals skipper is batting superbly and 190 looks likely. FIFTY for Jemimah in the final in just 32 balls - the second quickest in WPL playoffs after Nat Sciver-Brunt’s 29-ball half century against Gujarat Giants in last year's eliminator.

DC-W 140/2 (15)

OUTTT!!! After a brief entertainment, Lizelle Lee perishes away while trying to go against her compatriot Nadine de Klerk. Grace Harris takes the catch as Lee departs for 37 off 30 balls.

DC-W 83-2 (9)

This is monstrous stuff from Lizelle Lee. Despite losing Shafali Verma in the previous over, the South African showed no respect to Shreyanka Patil for 4, 4 and 6 off consecutive deliveries. In fact, RCB captain Smriti Mandhana had to come and talk to Patil. Laura Wolvaardt finishes the over with a classy four through covers.

DC-W 72-1 (7)

Too good and too easy for Delhi Capitals. The boundaries are flowing as Shafali Verma joins the bandwagon with a couple of boundaries off Arundhati Reddy. OUTTT!!!!! Shafali tries to pull a short delivery from Reddy, get a faint edge and Richa Ghosh takes a brilliant catch. RCB have got their wicket. She goes back for 20. Laura Wolvaardt finishes of the powerplay with a boundary.

DC-W 53-1 (6)

Lizelle Lee and Shafali Verma open the batting for Delhi Capitals. BANG BANG from Lee. The South African goes bonkers against Sayali Satghare, smashing back-to-back sixes in the first two balls. 5 wides to follow. Big over for Delhi Capitals after being kept quiet in the first three overs. 20 runs come from the over.

DC-W 29-0 (4)

Time for National Anthem as players of both RCB and Delhi Capitals walk out in the middle.

RCB: Grace Harris, Smriti Mandhana(c), Georgia Voll, Richa Ghosh(w), Radha Yadav, Nadine de Klerk, Pooja Vastrakar, Arundhati Reddy, Sayali Satghare, Shreyanka Patil, Lauren Bell

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

The start of the match might face a slight delay as the closing ceremony is currently going on at the BCA Stadium with performances from Malaika Arora and Talwiinder.

Time for the toss. Jemimah Rodrigue and Smriti Mandhana walk out for the toss one final time in this season. Mandhana wins the toss and RCB women opted to bowl first. Both RCB and Delhi Capitals go with the same playing XI.

The news from the centre is that the toss will take place in between 6:35 to 6:40 PM IST because of the closing ceremony in Vadodara.

"This year was a lot more hard work. But I think the way the girls stuck together stood out for me. Especially when things don't go your way, it's very easy for a team to scatter. But I think this team actually came together and those losses actually helped us bond a lot more and be a lot more together and come out of it." - Jemimah Rodrigues

"I'm really happy that everyone had that sort of a break and enjoyed it with each other and came back being very fresh. And again, looking forward to the finals because sometimes sitting in the hotel room, not doing much can cause a lot of overthinking. So I'm happy that we had that sort of a break and RCB took us to Goa." - Smriti Mandhana

For RCB, it's the leadership of Smriti Mandhana, along with the contribution from the while team, that helped them come this long. After they won the first five games on the trot, RCB did stutter a but with back-to-back losses. However, their win against UP Warriorz helped RCB to qualify for the final with a table-top finish.

Delhi Capitals have been the most consistent side in the history of WPL. They made it to the finals in the first three editions under the leadership of Meg Lanning. In this edition, under the leadership of new captain Jemimah Rodrigues, Delhi Capitals started badly, losing three of their first four games. But a win over Mumbai Indians changed everthing as they went on to win three in the next four to make it to the Eliminator. In the Eliminator, DC defeated Gujarat Giants to make it to the final.

Hello and welcome to the live coverage of the WPL 2026 final between RCB women and Delhi Capitals women.