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

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— 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.

Mumbai Indians, batting first in their second match of the Women’s Premier League, scored 195 runs. Natalie Siver (70) and captain Harmanpreet Kaur (74) scored half-centuries. Delhi Capitals won the toss and chose to bowl first. Nandani Sharma took maximum 2 wickets for Delhi.

Mumbai Indians had a bad time beginning

Mumbai Indians, who came to bat first after losing the toss, had a bad start. Amelia Kerr was out on her very first ball, she had also flopped in the previous match. After the early fall of the first wicket, Natalie Siver, who came at number three, along with Kamalini made a partnership of 49 runs for the second wicket. Kamalini was out after scoring 16 runs in 19 balls, she was dismissed by Nandini Sharma.

There was a partnership of 66 runs for the third wicket between Natalie Siver and Harmanpreet Kaur. Natalie scored 70 runs in 46 balls at a strike rate of 152.17. In this innings he hit 13 fours. That means he scored 52 runs only from boundaries.

Harmanpreet Kaur’s explosive half-century

Captain Harmanpreet Kaur played an unbeaten inning of 74 runs. In this quick innings played in 42 balls, he hit 3 sixes and 8 fours. In the end Nicola Carey scored 21 runs in 12 balls with the help of 4 fours, as Nandini Sharma took her second wicket. Batting first, Mumbai Indians scored 195 runs for 4 wickets.

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Harmanpreet Kaur is on fire in Navi Mumbai

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A total of 29 fours and 3 sixes were hit in this innings of Mumbai Indians. Harmanpreet Kaur hit all the sixes, while Natalie Siver hit the most fours. He hit 13 fours, Harmanpreet hit 8 and Nicola Carey hit 4 fours. Wicketkeeper batsman Kamalini hit 3 fours.

Mumbai looking for first win

Mumbai Indians have to defend the target of 196 runs, if this happens then it will be the first win of this edition for Mumbai Indians. Mumbai was defeated by Royal Challengers Bangalore in the first match. It was quite exciting, in which Mumbai had the upper hand till the end. Delhi Capitals is playing its first match of this edition today.