{"id":425623,"date":"2026-01-20T14:18:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T14:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/425623\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T14:18:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T14:18:24","slug":"de-klerk-leads-wpl-purple-cap-table-as-race-for-orange-cap-gets-frenetic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/425623\/","title":{"rendered":"De Klerk leads WPL Purple Cap table as race for Orange Cap gets frenetic"},"content":{"rendered":"

The top of the Purple Cap table looks quite different now, after Royal Challengers Bengaluru<\/a> (RCB) made it five out of five at WPL 2026<\/a> by beating Gujarat Giants<\/a> (GG) on Monday night. <\/p>\n

Nandani Sharma<\/a>, who hasn’t played since Saturday, is now in fourth place on the wicket-takers’ table, and the RCB duo of Nadine de Klerk<\/a> and Lauren Bell<\/a> have both gone past her, as has Amelia Kerr<\/a> of Mumbai Indians (MI), who also hasn’t played since Saturday.<\/p>\n

De Klerk, with her 2 for 17 in the win over GG, is now the table-topper, joint on wickets – 10 – with Kerr, but with a better average (13.20 vs 14.70) and economy rate (6.94 vs 7.35). Bell is just behind them with nine wickets after picking up one wicket against GG.<\/p>\n

Nandani also has nine wickets, the same as GG’s Sophie Devine<\/a> and RCB’s Shreyanka Patil<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Phoebe Litchfield<\/a> of UP Warriorz (UPW) continues to be the most prolific run-scorer this season. She is the only batter to cross the 200-run mark. Litchfield currently has 211 runs at a strike rate of 162.30.<\/p>\n

In second place is MI captain Harmanpreet Kaur<\/a> with 199 runs, followed by UPW captain Meg Lanning<\/a> with 193, RCB captain Smriti Mandhana<\/a> with 192, and GG captain Ashleigh Gardner<\/a> with 191, all just a few big hits of getting past the others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The top of the Purple Cap table looks quite different now, after Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) made it…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":425624,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-425623","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cricket","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}