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Deeya Yadav Became The Youngest Player To Debut In The WPL: Vaibhav Suryavanshi had created history by debuting in the Indian Premier League at the age of just 14. After which, Vaibhav became the youngest player to play in IPL. Almost a year after this historic achievement of Vaibhav, now a new record has been created for the youngest player to debut in the Women’s Premier League (WPL 2026). 16 year old Diya Yadav has achieved this feat while making her debut in the match played between Mumbai Indians and Delhi Capitals on Tuesday, January 20 in Vadodara. With this, while playing for Delhi, this young batsman has got his name registered in the record book of WPL.
Youngest player to be bought in WPL 2026 auction
In the auction held in November 2025 for WPL 2026, Diya Yadav caught everyone’s attention when Delhi Capitals bought her at the base price of Rs 10 lakh. In this way, she also became the youngest player to be bought in the WPL auction. However, the wait was for his debut, which was not possible in the initial matches of the WPL 2026 season. But after 3 defeats in the first 4 matches, Delhi Capitals finally gave a chance to young batsman Diya Yadav.
It had to be Delhi. It had to be Shafali handing her the cap 💙❤️
Go well, Deeya 👊 pic.twitter.com/0mpN4TXzjQ
— Delhi Capitals (@DelhiCapitals) January 20, 2026
Diya Yadav made the record of being the youngest to debut in WPL
In the 13th match of WPL 2026, there was a clash between Mumbai Indians and Delhi Capitals. In this match, Delhi Capitals included right-handed batsman Diya Yadav in the playing eleven for the first time. With this, Diya Yadav, who debuted at the age of just 16 years and 103 days, has become the youngest player of WPL. In this case, Diya broke the record of G Kamalini, who had debuted in the WPL 2025 season at the age of 16 years and 213 days. Coincidentally, just before Diya’s debut, Kamalini was out of WPL 2026 due to injury and in her place Mumbai Indians have included 20-year-old Vaishnavi Sharma in the squad. Vaishnavi also made her debut in this match.