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Smriti Mandhana Creates History As RCB Breaks MI's Record, Upstages Harmanpreet Kaur; Becomes First Captain To...

Smriti Mandhana-led Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) created history and broke Harmanpreet Kaur's Mumbai Indians' (MI) record after beating Gujarat Giants (GG) at the Kotambi Stadium in Vadodara on Monday (January 19) to continue their unbeaten run in the 2026 Women's Premier League (WPL) with their fifth win in a row in the tournament while also confirming their place in the playoffs for only the second time in history. Despite being reduced to 9-2 with star overseas batters Grace Harris and Georgia Voll departing early after GG won the toss and chose to bowl first, the 2024 winners put up a big score of 178 on the board. Gautami Naik was the star of the show with a fine knock of 73 off 55 balls. She also became the first uncapped player in the league's history to score a half-century.

Smriti Mandhana Creates History As RCB Breaks MI's Record, Upstages Harmanpreet Kaur; Becomes First Captain To...

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Key Highlights

  • Richa Ghosh (27 of 20) and Radha Yadav (17 of 8) put up valuable contributions. The Giants were rattled early in the chase as Sayali Satghar dismissed Beth Mooney and Sophie Devine in the second over, while Lauran Bell got the wicket of Kanika Ahuja in the next over.
  • The Gujarat-based outfit was unable to recover and ended up posting just 117 runs on the board and lost by 61 runs. Smriti Mandhana And RCB Create historyThis marks RCB's sixth win in a row after wininng each of their first five games in the season, after also winning their last match last year, which was a league stage clash against MI at the Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai.
  • Mandhana's girls are the first team in WPL's history to secure six victories in a row.
  • Previously, there were three instances of teams winning five victories in a row, out of which two belonged to Harmanpreet-led Mumbai.
  • Most Consecutive Wins In A Row BY A Team In WPL TeamCaptainsWins In A RowYearRCBSmriti Mandhana62026MIHarmanpreet Kaur52023RCBSmriti Mandhana52024MIHarmanpreet Kaur52023-24DCMeg Lanning42024RCB are the second team to start a season with five wins in a row after MI in the inaugural season in 2023, when they went onto win the title.
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