{"id":376784,"date":"2026-01-18T11:31:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T11:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/376784\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T11:31:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T11:31:12","slug":"wpl-2026-results-smriti-mandhana-lauren-bell-extend-rcbs-perfect-start-with-dc-win-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/376784\/","title":{"rendered":"WPL 2026 results: Smriti Mandhana &#038; Lauren Bell extend RCB&#8217;s perfect start with DC win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Captain Smriti Mandhana made 96 as Royal Challengers Benglauru extended their 100% start to the Women&#8217;s Premier League with a comfortable <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/cricket\/scorecard\/e-233923\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">eight-wicket win<\/a> over Delhi Capitals. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Chasing 167, Mandhana saw Grace Harris dismissed in the third over, before putting on 142 with Australia&#8217;s Georgia Voll for the second wicket.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She was closing on the first century in the tournament&#8217;s history but was caught off Nandni Sharma with 11 required.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Richa Ghosh joined Voll, who made an unbeaten 54, as 2024 winners RCB got over the line with 10 balls to spare. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Earlier, they bowled Capitals out for 166 off the final ball of the innings, with England seamer Lauren Bell taking 3-26. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She bowled South Africa duo Lizelle Lee and Laura Wolvaardt in the first over, before returning to dismiss Shafali Verma for 62 in the 17th over. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Capitals did well to post 166 because, after Bell&#8217;s double first-over strike, Sayali Satghare also claimed two wickets in the second over as Capitals slipped to 10-4.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The win moves RCB four points clear of three sides at the top, while Capitals remain bottom with one win in four games. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Captain Smriti Mandhana made 96 as Royal Challengers Benglauru extended their 100% start to the Women&#8217;s Premier League&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376262,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-376784","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\/376784","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=376784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}