{"id":460917,"date":"2026-02-05T21:57:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T21:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/460917\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T21:57:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T21:57:09","slug":"royal-challengers-bengaluru-defeat-delhi-capitals-georgia-voll-fifty-video-highlights-womens-premier-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/460917\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal Challengers Bengaluru defeat Delhi Capitals, Georgia Voll fifty, video, highlights, Women\u2019s Premier League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Royal Challengers Bengaluru have won their second Women\u2019s Premier League title after defeating the Delhi Capitals by six wickets in Thursday\u2019s high-scoring final at Vadodara\u2019s Kotambi Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Chasing a daunting 204-run target for victory, the Royal Challengers got the job done with two balls to spare courtesy of a 165-run partnership between captain Smriti Mandhana (87 off 41 balls) and Australian young gun Georgia Voll (79 from 54 balls). It was the highest successful run chase in WPL history, while the duo\u2019s partnership was also a competition record.<\/p>\n<p>It comes after Bengaluru won their maiden title in 2024, while the Capitals have now suffered four-consecutive WPL final defeats, having qualified for the tournament decider in all four editions of the T20 competition with no trophies to show for it.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"i-amphtml-fill-content i-amphtml-replaced-content\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/poster-fallback.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Watch the biggest Aussie sports &amp; the best from overseas LIVE on Kayo Sports | New to Kayo? <a href=\"https:\/\/kayosports.com.au?pg=default&amp;extcamp=fsaeditoriallinkgeneric-edt-fsp-lnk-awr-grc-grc-kyo&amp;channel=fsa&amp;campaign=fsacontra&amp;voucher=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Join now and get your first month for just $1 &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Get all the latest cricket news, highlights and analysis delivered straight to your inbox with Fox Sports Sportmail. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com.au\/newsletter-sign-up?utm_source=CricketArticle&amp;utm_medium=TextLink&amp;utm_campaign=signup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Sign up now &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Capitals were sent in after Bengaluru won the toss, with Australian opener Lizelle Lee hitting a 30-ball 37 before skipper Jemimah Rodrigues cracked a stylish half-century. Delhi posted an imposing 4-203 from their 20 overs after a late flourish from South Africa\u2019s Laura Wolvaardt (44 from 25 balls) and West Indies slugger Chinelle Henry (35 off 15 balls not out).<\/p>\n<p>England seamer Lauren Bell was the pick of the Bengaluru bowlers, conceding just 19 runs from her four economical overs.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the early loss of opener Grace Harris, with the Queenslander departing in the second over for 9, Mandhana and Voll put the Royal Challengers within touching distance of the target before a brief collapse of 3-14 set up a tense conclusion.<\/p>\n<p>However, with eight runs needed from the final four balls, Radha Yadav held her nerve with consecutive boundaries off spinner Shree Charani to seal victory.<\/p>\n<p>Before the final, 22-year-old Voll had contributed scores of 1, 11, 9 and 16, finding form at just the right time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt would have been better to finish it off,\u201d Voll said after the match.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut to play that way in the final \u2013 I felt like I couldn\u2019t hit the ball off the square for most of the season \u2013 so to come out and perform in the final is very special.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, the Royal Challengers have become the first franchise to simultaneously hold the IPL and WPL trophies, with the men\u2019s team winning last year\u2019s title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Royal Challengers Bengaluru have won their second Women\u2019s Premier League title after defeating the Delhi Capitals by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":460918,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-460917","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\/460917","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=460917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}