RCB, while chasing the target, did not have a very good start and the wicket of Grace Harris fell for just 9 runs. After this, captain Smriti Mandhana along with Georgia Woll took charge of the innings and made a record partnership of 165 runs in 92 balls for the second wicket, completely turning the match in favor of RCB. This was the biggest partnership in Women’s Premier League history. Earlier, while playing for Delhi Capitals, Shefali Verma and Meg Lanning had made a partnership of 162 runs in 2023.

Smriti Mandhana played a stormy inning of 87 runs in just 41 balls, which included 12 fours and 3 sixes. This became the highest ever individual score in Women’s Premier League final history. Whereas Georgia Voll made the second highest score in the final by scoring 79 runs in 54 balls.

With this brilliant innings, Smriti Mandhana also made the record of becoming the first and highest run-scorer batsman to do so for RCB by completing 1000 runs in the Women’s Premier League. Apart from this, she became the fifth player in the league history to complete 1000 runs overall. Earlier, only Nat Sciver Brunt (1348 runs), Meg Lanning (1200 runs), Harmanpreet Kaur (1193 runs), and Shefali Verma (1104 runs) had achieved this feat.

Not only this, this season Smriti Mandhana also achieved the title of the most successful batsman of the Women’s Premier League 2026 by scoring 377 runs in 9 matches at an average of 53.88. Before this match, Harmanpreet Kaur was leading in this matter with 342 runs.

On the basis of the historic partnership of Mandhana and Woll, RCB achieved the target with 2 balls remaining and became the champion of the Women’s Premier League for the second time after 2024.