Stats: A final of records and RCB's rare hat-trick

Stats highlights from a bat-dominated day in the final of the Women's Premier League 2026 edition in Vadodara:

2 - Smriti Mandhana and Georgia Voll orchestrated the highest successful chase in WPL history as Royal Challengers Bengaluru clinched their second title, their first coming in 2024. For Delhi Capitals, it was familiar heartbreak, finishing runners-up for the fourth successive final. Mumbai Indians remain the other multiple-time champions, lifting the trophy in 2023 and 2025. Mandhana joined Harmanpreet Kaur as the only captains to win the WPL title twice.

3 - The triumph also completed a rare franchise hat-trick for RCB across the IPL and WPL, making them the first side to hold both trophies simultaneously. It also marked the first time in four seasons that the league's table-topper went on to win the WPL.

2 - DC became only the second team in women's franchise cricket to lose four finals, after Brisbane Heat.

204 - RCB's successful chase of 204 against DC was the second 200-plus chase in WPL history and the highest ever in the competition. It is also the second-highest successful chase in women's T20 cricket, behind West Indies' pursuit of 213 against Australia in 2023.

It bettered the previous WPL record of 202, set by RCB against Gujarat Giants at the same venue last season, and became the highest successful chase in an IPL or WPL final, surpassing Kolkata Knight Riders' 200-run chase against Punjab Kings in the 2024 IPL final. It was also the first time a target of 175 or more had been chased in any women's T20 final, across leagues and internationals.

Highest target successfully chased in the WPL

407 - The match aggregate of 407 was the third-highest in a WPL game, behind 438 runs scored between RCB and UPW last year, and 414 runs between DC and GG in Navi Mumbai earlier this season. It is also the highest match aggregate in any Women's T20 final (leagues or internationals).

203 - DC's first-innings total was the second-highest in WPL playoffs history, behind MI's 213 for 4 in the 2025 eliminator, and the highest first-innings score recorded in Vadodara in the WPL.

87 - Mandhana's 56-ball 87 was the highest individual score in a WPL final. Voll's 79 in the same innings is the second-highest. The previous best had been Harmanpreet's 66 in the 2025 final.

Highest individual scores in the WPL finals

377 - Mandhana finished the season as the Orange Cap winner with 377 runs from nine innings at an average of 53.85 and a strike rate of 153.25. It is the second-highest run tally in a single WPL season, behind Nat Sciver-Brunt's 523 in 2025. Harmanpreet's 342 was the next best this season.

Most runs in a single WPL season

5 - Mandhana (1023) also became the fifth player with 1000-plus runs in the WPL after Nat Sciver-Brunt (1348), Meg Lanning (1200), Harmanpreet Kaur (1193), and Shafali Verma (1124). She went past Ellyse Perry (972) to become the leading run-getter for RCB in the WPL.

17 - The 17 wickets taken by Sophie Devine and Nandni Sharma were the joint second-most in a single WPL season, behind the 18 taken by Amelia Kerr and Hayley Matthews in 2025. Nandani's haul is the highest by an Indian bowler in a WPL season.

165 - The second-wicket stand between Mandhana and Voll is the highest partnership for any wicket in WPL history, bettering 162 between Shafali and Lanning against RCB in 2023. It was also the first century stand in a WPL final and the highest partnership for any wicket in any women's T20 final. Mandhana has now been part of six century partnerships in the WPL, the most by any batter.

Highest partnerships in the WPL history (any wicket)

23 - Mandhana's half-century came off just 23 balls - the fastest fifty in WPL playoffs history - bettering Nat Sciver-Brunt's 29-ball fifty against GG in last year's Eliminator. It was also Mandhana's fastest fifty in the WPL.