RCB VS MI, WPL 2026 : Women’s Premier League 2026 The tournament has started today and the opening match of this season is being played between defending champions Mumbai Indians and Royal Challengers Bangalore. Both these teams are from Navi Mumbai. DY Patil has come face to face at the stadium. Batting first, Mumbai Indians who lost the toss scored 154 for 6 in 20 overs on the strength of Sajivan Sajjan’s 45 runs. Royal Challengers Bangalore need to score 155 runs if they want to win this match. Nadine de Klerk has taken the most 4 wickets from RCB.

After winning the toss, RCB captain Smriti Mandhana won the toss and elected to bowl first and invited Mumbai Indians to bat first. This decision of Smriti Mandhan was justified by the RCB bowlers as Mumbai Indians’ innings did not get off to a good start. The opening pair of Amelia Kerr and G Kamalini opened the innings for Mumbai. However, the pair managed to score only 21 runs for the first wicket. Amelia Kerr was dismissed for 4 runs. She was eliminated by Lauren Bell. Nat Siver-Brunt then entered the field but was quickly eliminated as well. Brunt fell victim to Nadine De Klerk for 4 runs.

Nate Syver-Brunt captained the side after his dismissal Harmanpreet Kaur And opener G Kamalini tried to manage the team’s innings. Both of them made a partnership of 28 runs. After that, G Kamalini was dismissed for 32 runs. She scored 32 off 23 balls. She hit 5 fours in this innings. She was dismissed by Shreyanka Patil. After Kamalini Kaur Also got out by 20 runs. She was repped by Nadine de Klerk. After the dismissal of the important batsmen, Nicola Carey and Sajivan Sajna attacked the RCB bowlers well.

Both of them hit all round and made an important partnership of 82 runs. Sajna was dismissed after scoring 45 runs in 25 balls (7 fours and 1 six). She was preyed upon by Nadine de Klerk. Nicola Carey then retired with 40 runs off 29 balls. She hit 4 fours in her innings. She was also replaced by Nadine de Klerk. After that Amanjot Kaur and Poonam Khemnar remained unbeaten with 0 runs each. Nadine de Klerk took the most 4 wickets from RCB. While Lauren Bell and Shreyanka Patil took 1 wicket each.

Mumbai team playing 11

Mumbai Indians Women: Nat Syver-Brunt, G Kamalini (W), Amelia Kerr, Harmanpreet Kaur (captain), Amanjot Kaur, Nicola Carey, Poonam Khemnar, Shabneem Ismail, Sanskriti Gupta, Sajivan Sajna, Saika Ishaq

Bangalore team playing 11

Royal Challengers Bangalore Women: Smriti Mandhana (captain), Grace Harris, Dayalan Hemalta, Richa Ghosh (w), Radha Yadav, Nadine de Klerk, Arundhati Reddy, Shreyanka Patil, Prema Rawat, Lynsey Smith, Lauren Bell