{"id":397697,"date":"2026-01-29T23:30:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T23:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/397697\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T23:30:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T23:30:12","slug":"wpl-2026-results-grace-harris-stars-as-rcb-thrash-up-warriorz-to-secure-final-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/397697\/","title":{"rendered":"WPL 2026 results: Grace Harris stars as RCB thrash UP Warriorz to secure final spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Australia&#8217;s Grace Harris starred as Royal Challengers Bengaluru booked their place in the Women&#8217;s Premier League final with a comfortable <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/cricket\/scorecard\/e-233930\" class=\"ssrcss-eyo3xn-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">eight-wicket win<\/a> over UP Warriorz. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The all-rounder took 2-22 with the ball as RCB opted to bowl first and restricted Warriorz to 143-8.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">South Africa&#8217;s Nadine de Klerk took 4-22, including the key wickets of Meg Lanning (41), that broke an opening stand of 74 with Deepti Sharma (55), and England wicketkeeper Amy Jones (1) on her WPL debut. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">England&#8217;s Lauren Bell (1-21) again impressed, bowling 14 dot balls in her four overs. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Harris then led the charge in the chase as she crashed 75 off 37 balls in an opening stand of 108 with Smriti Mandhana.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She was dismissed off the first ball of the 10th over, but RCB returned to winning ways with 41 balls to spare, with Mandhana making an unbeaten 54. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">RCB had already secured a play-off place after wins in their opening five games, but will now have a week off before attempting to win their second WPL title in the final at Vadodara International Cricket Stadium on 5 February (14:00 GMT). <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The defeat leaves Warriorz bottom and they could be eliminated on Friday if Mumbai Indians beat Gujarat Giants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">If Giants win, and seal a play-off place, then Warriorz&#8217;s game against Delhi Capitals on Sunday will decide which of the three sides takes the final spot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia&#8217;s Grace Harris starred as Royal Challengers Bengaluru booked their place in the Women&#8217;s Premier League final with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-397697","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\/397697","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=397697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}