By Admin 
The 18th match of the Women’s Premier League (WPL 2026) was played between Royal Challengers Bangalore and UP Warriors in Vadodara. RCB registered a spectacular victory in the match by 8 wickets. With this victory the team has made it to the direct finals. The condition of UP Warriors is bad. RCB finished their league stage matches by topping the points table. Grace Harris and Smriti Mandhana made important contributions in helping Bengaluru win the match.
Now UP has to play its last league match against Delhi on 01 February. To get a place in the playoffs, the team will have to depend on the other teams along with winning this match.
match status
UP team, who came to bat first in the match, put 143/8 runs on the board in 20 overs. Deepti Sharma played the biggest innings for the team and scored 55 runs in 43 balls with the help of 6 fours and 1 six. Apart from this, Meg Lanning played an inning of 41 runs. Six batsmen of the team could not even cross double figures, out of which three batsmen remained without opening the account. During this period, Nadine de Klerk took maximum 4 wickets for RCB.
Bengaluru registered a one-sided victory in the run chase
Bengaluru, which came on the field for the run chase, won in just 13.1 overs. During this period the team lost only 2 wickets. Grace Harris, who opened for Bengaluru, played the biggest innings, scoring 75 runs in 37 balls with the help of 13 fours and 2 sixes. Apart from this, captain Smriti Mandhana scored 54* runs in 27 balls with the help of 8 fours and 2 sixes. Harris and Mandhana made a partnership of 108 (55) runs for the first wicket. Now Bengaluru team will directly enter the field for the title match on 5th February (Thursday).