Royal Challengers Bengaluru turned the primary group to seal passage by means of to the Playoffs of the Ladies’s Premier League 2026 after a 61-run win over Gujarat Giants on the Kotambi Stadium in Vadodara on Monday.
Gautami Naik’s maiden WPL fifty guided the group to a formidable whole of 178 for six, earlier than the bowlers helped seal a fifth consecutive victory because the begin of this 12 months’s competitors.
With the addition of a victory in its final match of the 2025 season, RCB now holds the file for the longest profitable streak within the girls’s T20 competitors with six.
The Smriti Mandhana-led facet, which gained the second version of the WPL in 2024, is in pole place to qualify on to the ultimate because the desk topper. The facet wants only one win in its final three video games to cement its place within the summit conflict.
Printed on Jan 19, 2026