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.