{"id":398888,"date":"2026-01-30T14:31:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T14:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/398888\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T14:31:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T14:31:07","slug":"wpl-2026-rcb-vs-upw-nadine-de-klerk-and-smriti-mandhana-rise-on-purple-cap-and-orange-cap-tables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/398888\/","title":{"rendered":"WPL 2026 &#8211; RCB vs UPW &#8211; Nadine De Klerk and Smriti Mandhana rise on Purple Cap and Orange Cap tables"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But her team-mate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/cricketers\/harmanpreet-kaur-372317\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Harmanpreet Kaur<\/a> isn&#8217;t the No. 2 anymore. That place has gone to RCB captain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/cricketers\/smriti-mandhana-597806\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Smriti Mandhana<\/a>, who hit 54 not out in her team&#8217;s win over UPW on Thursday to move to 290 runs from eight innings. Harmanpreet is in third place with 260 runs from seven innings. UPW captain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/cricketers\/meg-lanning-329336\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Meg Lanning<\/a> is fourth with 248, followed by her team-mate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/cricketers\/phoebe-litchfield-1176132\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Phoebe Litchfield<\/a>, who has left the WPL with an injury after scoring 243 from six innings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"But her team-mate Harmanpreet Kaur isn&#8217;t the No. 2 anymore. That place has gone to RCB captain Smriti&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398889,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[132648,1721,36623,49,50,132647,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-398888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-bulletin","tag-cricket","tag-daily","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-package","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398888","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=398888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}