Grace Harris’s powerful innings, along with consistent backing from Smriti Mandhana, made the chase easy for RCB. It helped RCB secure a comfortable and solid victory against UP Warriorz.

Match Summary

RCB are set to face off against UPW in today’s WPL 2026 match. This is Match No. 18 of WPL 2026 at the Vadodara International Cricket Stadium on Thursday (January 29, 2026).

Earlier,RCB won the toss,choose to bowl first.

Meg Lanning and Deepti Sharma started strong for UPW with a solid opening partnership, but Nadine de Klerk made a big impact by taking out Lanning and Amy Jones in the same over.

Harleen Deol joined Deepti at the crease, but Grace Harris quickly dismissed her for 14 runs and then added Chloe Tryon to her list of victims, getting her out for just 6 runs.

Just before Deepti reached her half-century, Lauren Bell bowled out Shwetha Sherawat for seven runs.

After scoring 55 runs, Deepti was eventually dismissed by Shreyanka Patil.

Nadine de Klerk then came back to take two more wickets, including Simran Sheikh and Sophie Ecclestone, finishing with an impressive four-wicket haul.

UP Warriorz scored just 143/8 in 20 overs.

The opening partnership of Harris and Mandhana completely seized control of the game from UP Warriorz right from the start of the chase.

Grace Harris had an impressive performance, racking up 85 runs from only 40 balls with some aggressive hitting that really put the UPW bowlers on the back foot right from the start.

Smriti Mandhana played a great supporting role, finishing with 47 not out from 32 balls, stabilizing the innings.

RCB easily chased down the target, wrapping it up at 145/1 in only 12.1 overs, winning by 9 wickets with 47 balls left to play.

The win boosted RCB points and net run rate, moving them to the top of the WPL standings and strengthening their title hopes

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