WPL 2026 Prize Money: The Women’s Premier League 2026 once again got not a new champion but an old winner. Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) won the title for the second time by defeating Delhi Capitals. In the final match played on Thursday, RCB won by 6 wickets and along with the trophy, also deposited huge prize money in their account. The story remained the same for Delhi Capitals – the trophy slipped away even after reaching the finals.

wpl 2026 prize money list

Winner: Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB)

Prize Money – 6 crore rupees

Runner up: Delhi Capitals (DC)

Prize Money – Rs 3 crore

Player of the Tournament: Sophie Devine

Prize Money – 5 lakh rupees

Orange Cap (most runs): Smriti Mandhana

Prize Money – 5 lakh rupees

Purple Cap (most wickets): Sophie Devine

Prize Money – 5 lakh rupees

Most sixes in the tournament

Sophie Devine – 5 lakh rupees

Best Strike Rate Award

Grace Harris – 5 lakh rupees

Player of the match of the final

Smriti Mandhana – Rs 2.5 lakh

Emerging Player of the Season

Nandini Sharma – 5 lakh rupees

match status

Batting first, Delhi Capitals put 203 runs on the board after losing 4 wickets in 20 overs. The team got a good start from openers Shefali Verma (20) and Lizelle Lee (37), but the pace slowed down a bit due to the fall of wickets in the middle overs. Despite this, Jemimah Rodriguez (57) played captaincy innings and took the team to a strong position. The fast runs in the last overs took Delhi to a big score, which could not be considered easy under the pressure of the final.

Smriti and Voll changed the course of the match

RCB’s chase of the target started with a blow from Grace Harris (9), but after that captain Smriti Mandhana took charge. Georgia Voll (79 runs) made a long partnership with him and pushed the Delhi bowlers on the backfoot. Both of them never allowed the run pace to slow down and completely turned the match in favor of RCB. Some wickets did fall in the last overs, but the team showed patience and achieved the target in 19.4 overs.

Delhi’s fourth final, fourth disappointment

For Delhi Capitals, this was the fourth consecutive time that the team played the final, but failed to win the title. Despite strong performance every season, failure in the decisive match is becoming Delhi’s biggest problem. This defeat was very disappointing not only for the players but also for the franchise and fans.

WPL Final 2026: The final of the Women’s Premier League 2026 will be played between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Delhi Capitals. In the match, RCB won the toss and chose to bowl first. Considering the dew factor, the Bengaluru team has taken the first step towards becoming champion. But the trend of social media says something else, in fact it is being claimed that this time Delhi Capitals is sure to become the champion. There is a strange coincidence behind these claims.

Will Delhi Capitals become champion?

It is being claimed that Delhi Capitals under the captaincy of Jemimah Rodrigues is going to lift the WPL 2026 trophy. In fact, so far only that team has become champion in the Women’s Premier League, which has reached the finals after winning the eliminator match. On the basis of this fact, it is being claimed that this time Delhi is going to become champion.

amazing coincidence

-In the eliminator of the 2023 season, Mumbai Indians defeated UP Warriors and entered the finals. When it came to the final, MI won the title by defeating Delhi Capitals by 7 wickets. Mumbai became the first team to win the WPL title.

-A year later, in the eliminator of WPL 2024, RCB defeated Mumbai Indians and made it to the finals. This time, RCB maintained the same trend and won the first trophy for the RCB franchise by defeating Delhi Capitals by 8 wickets in the title match.

-2025 That is, in the last season when it was the turn of the eliminator, MI had defeated Gujarat Giants by 47 runs. The winning streak of the team that won the eliminator continued this time too, as Mumbai lifted the trophy for the second time by defeating Delhi Capitals by a close margin of 8 runs in the final.

A team can not lose 4 finals in a row right? Last 3 years, winner of eliminator have won the cup, this time it can’t change? Kapp can’t lose another final (would be 7 in a row) right? Right? #WPL #RCBvsDC #FINAL

— KingKohli_paglu.18 (@King18_paglu) February 3, 2026

All previous winners of WPL have won final after winning eliminator. What do think will history be repeated or defeated?#wpl #rcbvdc

— Aadi (@Crick_Musk_18) February 3, 2026

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RCB vs DC Final WPL 2026: The final of the Women’s Premier League 2026 will be played today between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Delhi Capitals. This match will be played at BCA Stadium in Vadodara, which will start at 7:30 pm Indian time. RCB team is coming on top in the points table, on the other hand, Delhi had entered the title clash by defeating Gujarat Giants by 7 wickets in the eliminator.

This figure may surprise you that Delhi Capitals team has played the WPL finals every time till now, but has never won the trophy. Whereas RCB has reached the final for the second time in history.

Who won the WPL title how many times?

The team that has won the Women’s Premier League title the most number of times is Mumbai Indians. MI won the trophy in the 2023 and 2025 seasons. Whereas Royal Challengers Bangalore won the title of 2024 season. Delhi Capitals has lost in the finals every time from 2023-2025. Now Delhi has come to the final for the fourth time, which will have to defeat RCB to win its first title.

• WPL 2023 – Mumbai Indians
• WPL 2024 – Royal Challengers
• WPL 2026 – Mumbai Indians

Delhi is the most unlucky team

Delhi Capitals has so far proved to be the most unlucky team in the history of the Women’s Premier League. In 2023, it had to face defeat in the finals at the hands of Mumbai Indians, in 2024 at the hands of Royal Challengers Bangalore and in 2025 once again at the hands of MI. Under the captaincy of Jemimah Rodrigues, Delhi has reached the finals in WPL 2026.

If Delhi wants to change its fortunes then Nandini Sharma, Shri Charani will have to step forward. Both of them have taken 16 and 14 wickets respectively so far. There will be expectations from Lizelle Lee and Laura Woolworth in batting. Both of them have remained DC’s most reliable batsmen throughout the season.

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The final of the fourth edition of the Women’s Premier League (WPL 2026) will be played today between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Delhi Capitals. You can gauge how close friends Smriti Mandhana and Jemimah Rodrigues, the captains of both the teams, are, from the fact that when Smriti’s marriage broke, she had taken a big decision of not going to the Big Bash League. Well, today Jemima will give her all to get her team the first title.

In the Women’s Premier League 2026, Royal Challengers Bangalore secured a place in the direct finals by topping the points table, while Delhi Capitals finished third. By defeating Gujarat in the eliminator, Delhi became the second finalist, who had lost 4 out of 8 matches in the double round robin.

Delhi Capitals in the final for the fourth consecutive time

The first edition of the Women’s Premier League was played in the year 2023, since then Delhi Capitals has made it to the finals in every edition. Royal Challengers Bangalore won their first title by defeating Delhi in 2024, while Delhi lost to Mumbai in the other two finals. Now Delhi would like to break this sequence and win its first title. This season, in the round robin format, Royal Challengers Bangalore lost 2 matches, one of which was against Delhi Capitals.

Probable playing 11 of RCB and DC

RCB: Grace Harris, Smriti Mandhana (captain), Georgia Woll, Radha Yadav, Richa Ghosh (wicketkeeper), Nadine de Klerk, Pooja Vastrakar, Arundhati Reddy, Sayli Satghare, Shreyanka Patil, Lauren Bell.

DC: Shafali Verma, Lizelle Lee (wk), Laura Wolvaardt, Jemimah Rodrigues (captain), Marizanne Kapp, Chinelle Henry, Nikki Prasad, Sneh Rana, Minu Mani, Shree Charani, Nandini Sharma.

BCA Stadium, Kotambi Pitch Report

The final of the Women’s Premier League 2026 will be played at the BCA Stadium in Vadodara. This pitch is considered slow, but this was not seen in the eliminator match. Batting first, Gujarat scored 168 runs, Delhi achieved the target in the 16th over itself. Dew can prove to be a big factor here, so the decision to bowl first after winning the toss will be right. A good batting pitch can be seen in the final. The team batting first will need to reach a score of 190 or 200, this will increase the pressure on the team chasing the target.

match prediction

Of course, Delhi Capitals made a good comeback in the last matches and played brilliantly, but Royal Challengers Bangalore look stronger. Smriti Mandhana is the third highest run scorer in this edition, who has scored 290 runs in 8 innings. Delhi’s Nandani Sharma is the second highest wicket taker this season, having taken 16 wickets. After this, RCB’s Nadine de Klerk is at third place, who has taken 15 wickets. Today RCB seems to have the upper hand a little more.