Harmanpreet Kaur: Women’s Premier League 2026 (WPL 2026) started yesterday between the teams of Mumbai Indians and Royal Challengers Bengaluru. In this match, the captain and vice-captain of the Indian team (Tram India) were face to face. The captain of Royal Challengers Bangalore team was Smriti Mandhana, while the command of Mumbai Indians team was in the hands of Harmanpreet Kaur.

In this match between RCB and MI (RCB vs MI), the RCB team won the match on the last ball of the last over and won by 3 wickets, after which Mumbai Indians captain Harmanpreet Kaur expressed anger over her defeat.

Harmanpreet Kaur said this on the defeat from RCB

The excitement was at its peak in the very first match of WPL 2026, RCB needed 17 runs in the last over to win and Nadine de Klerk was on the batting for RCB, she scored 16 runs in the first 5 balls, RCB needed 1 run on the last ball and by hitting a four on that ball, RCB won by 3 wickets.

After the defeat against RCB, Mumbai Indians captain Harmanpreet Kaur said that

Such was the condition of the first match of WPL 2026

In the first match of WPL 2026, RCB captain Smriti Mandhana won the toss and decided to bowl first. Coming to bat first, Mumbai Indians managed to score 154 runs at the loss of 6 wickets in the stipulated 20 overs, thanks to the explosive innings of Sajeevan Sajna’s 45 runs in 25 balls and Nicola Carey’s 40 runs in 29 balls. Mumbai Indians captain Harmanpreet Kaur played an inning of 20 runs in 17 balls with the help of 1 four and 1 six.

After this, when RCB team came out to bat, Grace Harris and Smriti Mandhana made a fast start, both scored 40 runs in 3.5 overs for the first wicket. After this RCB’s innings faltered. However, in the end Arundhati Reddy and Nadine de Klerk handled the RCB innings. Nadine de Klerk played a match-winning inning of 63 runs in 44 balls with the help of 7 fours and 2 sixes. Whereas Arundhati Reddy played a supporting inning of 20 runs in 25 balls with the help of 2 fours.