{"id":367404,"date":"2026-01-13T12:47:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T12:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/367404\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T12:47:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T12:47:10","slug":"wpl-2026-results-grace-harris-and-smriti-mandhana-power-royal-challengers-to-win-over-warriorz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/367404\/","title":{"rendered":"WPL 2026 results: Grace Harris and Smriti Mandhana power Royal Challengers to win over Warriorz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An opening partnership of 137 between Australia international Grace Harris and India batter Smriti Mandhana powered Royal Challengers Bengaluru to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/cricket\/scorecard\/e-233917#UPW\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">dominant nine-wicket victory over UP Warriorz in the Women&#8217;s Premier League<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The stand took RCB within seven runs of victory as they chased 144 in just 12.1 overs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Harris made 85 from 40 balls before being caught at point with the finish line in sight. Mandhana was unbeaten on 47 when the winning runs came.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">England bowler Lauren Bell impressed with 1-16 from her four overs as Warriorz were restricted to 143-5.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">England spinner Linsey Smith took 0-30 as South Africa seamer Nadine de Klerk and India spinner Shreyanka Patil claimed two wickets each.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">RCB now have two wins from two at the start of the competition and top the table. Warriorz are bottom after two defeats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An opening partnership of 137 between Australia international Grace Harris and India batter Smriti Mandhana powered Royal Challengers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367405,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-367404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}