Royal Challengers Bangalore defeated Mumbai Indians by 3 wickets in the first match of Women’s Premier League Season 4 (WPL 2026). While chasing the target of 155 runs, Smriti Mandhana and Grace Harris had made a bright start, but due to continuous fall of wickets, Mumbai Indians had the upper hand. MI was close to victory till the last over, but Nadine de Klerk turned the tables in the last 4 balls.

However, this was not a story of just 4 balls, rather Nadine de Klerk batted well in the entire match and completed her half-century before hitting the winning four. On one hand, wickets were falling, Clerk played a sensible innings and brought the team closer to the target.

What happened in the last over?

Royal Challengers Bangalore needed 18 runs from 6 balls to win. Prema Rawat was on non-strike, while Nadine de Klerk did not take easy singles on the first two balls. She hit a brilliant six on the third ball of the over bowled by Natalie Sciver-Brunt. He completed his half-century by hitting a four on the fourth ball.

Nadine also hit a six on the fifth ball, after which RCB needed 2 runs to win on the last ball. He won the match for RCB by hitting a four on the last ball. He scored unbeaten 63 runs in 44 balls. In this innings he hit 2 sixes and 7 fours.

. . , Nadine de Klerk!

She clinches a famous victory for @RCBTweets in the #TATAWPL 2026 opener

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— Women’s Premier League (WPL) (@wplt20) January 9, 2026

RCB created history

In the last 3 seasons, it has never happened that Royal Challengers Bangalore has defeated Mumbai Indians in the first match of the edition. This is the first time this has happened. In this match held at DY Patil Stadium, Smriti Mandhana won the toss and decided to bowl first. Mumbai had scored 154 runs while batting first.

While chasing the target, the opening pair of Royal Challengers (Smriti and Grace Harry) had made a partnership of 40 runs, but after the break of this pair, RCB’s wickets kept falling continuously. Apart from the half-century innings of Nadine de Klerk (63), Arundhati Reddy (20) and Prema Rawat (8) played short but important innings.

IPL 2025 Points Table, Orange Cap, Purple Cap: Batting first in the match played on Monday, Royal Challengers Bangalore set a target of 222 runs in front of Mumbai Indians. Virat Kohli played a brilliant innings of 67 and Rajat Patidar 64 runs. Hardik Pandya took 2 wickets. Chasing the target, Pandya and Tilak Verma played explosive innings but both could not reach the team till the victory. RCB won this match by 12 runs.

Suryakumar Yadav kept coming to the orange cap. While Hardik Pandya also missed the purple cap. However, Pandya became the second bowler jointly to take the most wickets this season (after 20 matches). This is RCB’s third win in 4 matches. This is the fourth defeat of Mumbai Indians, the team has won only one match this season so far.

IPL Points Table Updates: Mark Table after Mi Vs RCB match

After winning 2 matches continuously, RCB lost the third match, in the fourth match he defeated Mumbai Indians at his house (Wankhede). RCB has become strong but in the points table, it is defeated by Mumbai Indians and holds third place. She was at number three even before the match. Currently, RCB’s net run rate with 6 points is +1.015.

This is the fourth defeat of Mumbai Indians captained by Hardik Pandya in 5 matches. Mumbai’s position has not changed in the points table, that too is at number 8. Mumbai’s net run rate with 2 points is -0.010.

IPL 2025 Orange Cap: Suryakumar Yadav arrives close to Orange Cap

Suryakumar Yadav scored 28 runs in 26 balls against RCB, he was 3 runs behind Orange Cap. He is currently the second batsman to score the most runs this season, he has 199 runs in 5 matches. See the top 5 batsmen who score the most runs in the list.

• Nicholas Puran (LSG)- 201
• Suryakumar Yadav (Mi)- 199
• Sai Sudarshan (GT)- 191
• Michelle Marsh (LSG)- 184
• Jose Butler (GT)- 166

IPL 2025 Purple CAP: Hardik Pandya’s hands kept coming to the purple cap

Hardik Pandya took 2 wickets for 45 runs in 4 overs against RCB, he has become the second bowler to take the most wickets in the tournament but he missed out on taking the purple cap. See the top 5 bowlers who take the most wickets in the list.

• Noor Ahmed (CSK)- 10
• Hardik Pandya (Mi)- 10
• Mitchell Starc (DC)- 9
• Mohammad Siraj (GT)- 9
• Khalil Ahmed (CSK)- 8

Mumbai Indians vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru full highlights: Hardik Pandya and Tilak Verma’s stormy innings were destroyed. Royal Challengers Bangalore defeated Mumbai Indians by 12 runs in a thorn match. After 10 years in Wankhede, RCB has defeated Mumbai.

Royal Challengers Bangalore scored 221 runs after playing the half -centuries of Rajat Patidar and Virat Kohli after playing first. In response, Mumbai had lost 4 wickets for 99 runs in 12 overs at one time, but then Hardik Pandya turned 42 runs in 15 balls and Tilak Verma 56 runs in 29 balls. RCB’s victory was confirmed as soon as these two were out.

Mumbai did not start well, chasing the target of 222 runs. Rohit Sharma, who came as an impact player, was dismissed for 17 runs in 9 balls. He was bowled by Yash Dayal. Then after some time Ryan Riclton was also dismissed. Riklton scored 17 runs in 19 balls.

When two wickets fell for 38 runs, everyone’s eyes were on Suryakumar Yadav and Will Jacks. Two catches of Surya were also missed. But still he could not play a big innings. First Will Jacks were dismissed for 22 off 18 balls and then Suryakumar returned to the pavilion. Surya scored 28 runs in 26 balls. When Suryakumar was out, Mumbai’s expectation of victory was less than 10 percent.

When 4 wickets fell for 99 runs, RCB would easily win this match, as the required run rate had gone beyond 15, but captain Hardik Pandya started beating the Bangalore bowlers as soon as he came. Both overturned the match with stormy batting.

17 runs came in the 13th over, then in the 14th over, Josh Hazlewood conceded 22 runs. After this, 19 runs were scored in the 15th over. 13 runs were scored in the 16th over and the match went to Mumbai’s court. In 17 overs, Mi scored was 181 runs for 4 wickets.

Bhuvneshwar Kumar dismissed Tilak Verma in the 18th over. Then on the first ball of the 19th over, Josh Hazlewood walked Hardik and confirmed RCB’s victory. Mumbai was to score 28 runs in the last 12 balls, but Hazlewood gave only 9 runs in the 19th over. Now 19 runs were needed in the last over. Krunal Pandya took two wickets on the first two balls and ensured his team’s victory.

For RCB, Krunal Pandya took 4 wickets for 45 runs in four overs. Apart from this, Josh Hazlewood took two wickets for 37 runs in 4 overs and Yash Dayal sent 46 runs to two players to the pavilion. Earlier in the batting, Virat Kohli scored 67, Devdutt Padikkal 37, captain Rajat Patidar 64 and Jitesh Sharma scored 40 not out in 19 balls, making RCB scored a huge score of 221 runs in 20 overs.