Royal Challengers Bengaluru Women vs Delhi Capitals Women, Final, Women's Premier League 2026 - Player Highlights

Chinelle Henry to Smriti, out Bowled!! Wow. Wow. Look at Chinelle Henry's expression. She is pumped. A gargantuan moment in this game. It's a cross-seamer on a short of length on leg-stump, just one fielder inside the ring on the leg-side, so Smriti spotted a chance. She shuffles across and exposes her leg-stump, misses the pull, the leg-stump is down and Jemi runs with arms outstretched in celebration, mouth wide open. What a game this is turning out to be. Delhi can believe now. Smriti b Chinelle Henry 87(41) [4s-12 6s-3]

Nandni Sharma to Smriti, FOUR, Smriti is batting so well. It's full outside off, she gets forward and opens the face of the bat to get it wide of backward point and point. All along the ground too. She calms the nerves in the RCB-W camp

Minnu Mani to Smriti, 1 run, a juicy low full-toss outside off, Smriti gets forward to drive to long-off

Minnu Mani to Smriti, 1 run, slower and wider on a good length outside off, Smriti gets across and punches it down to sweeper cover

Minnu Mani to Smriti, FOUR, the story continues. It's tossed up on leg-stump, Smriti comes down the track and lofts cleanly over mid-off, one bounce over the ropes

Nandni Sharma to Smriti, 1 run, yorker length and angling into the left-hander on middle, Smriti gets forward and opens the face of the bat to guide it to the right of backward point

Nandni Sharma to Smriti, 1 run, full outside off, Smriti gets forward to loft, it's one bounce to long-off

Nandni Sharma to Smriti, no run, yorker length outside off, Smriti looks to squeeze that down late, misses

Marizanne Kapp to Smriti, 1 run, full and angling into the left-hander on off, Smriti shuffles across and flicks to long-on

Marizanne Kapp to Smriti, FOUR, there's that loft again. Full on off, Smriti gets forward and lofts, has the elevation to clear mid-off. The 150-run stand is up

Marizanne Kapp to Smriti, 1 run, low full-toss on middle, Smriti gets forward to flick and finds deep mid-wicket

Marizanne Kapp to Smriti, FOUR, Smriti wants to end this quickly now. She gets forward and lofts the full delivery straight down the ground and it runs away for four. Backed away outside the leg-stump to give the room for the arms to come through

Shree Charani to Smriti, FOUR, foure more. It's a back of a length delivery outside off, Smriti goes on the back foot and punches, open-face and beats the dive of backward point to her left. Nothing going right for DC-W now

Shree Charani to Smriti, 1 run, flat and the length pulled back outside off, Smriti comes down the track and then punches it down to long-off

Shree Charani to Smriti, FOUR, no stopping Smriti tonight. It's a length delivery outside off, she goes on the back foot and makes it shorter than it is, pulls well wide of deep mid-wicket

Chinelle Henry to Smriti, 1 run, length and angling into the left-hander even as Smriti walks forward and swings that to deep mid-wicket

Chinelle Henry to Smriti, FOUR, Smriti knows where the fielders are. She shuffles across outside off and gets under this full delivery outside off, sweeps aerially and clears backward square-leg inside the ring

Sneh Rana to Smriti, 1 run, full on middle, Smriti gets forward to drive to long-off

Sneh Rana to Smriti, FOUR, 50 now for Smriti. One of her favorite shots. She comes down the track and makes room enough for her to loft the tossed up delivery over extra-cover, beautiful knock this

Shree Charani to Smriti, no run, short of length on off, flat, Smriti goes on the back foot and punches straight to the fielder at cover-point

Shree Charani to Smriti, 1 run, good length on middle-stump, Smriti backs away outside the leg-stump and then punches it to long-off

Shree Charani to Smriti, SIX, Smriti with a fine loft. She comes down the track and is to the pitch of the ball, lofts cleanly and the ball flies over long-on, she watches it sail away

Nandni Sharma to Smriti, SIX, was a good over till then and it ends poorly for Delhi. Nandni Sharma tries a slower-ball off-cutter and it's way too short on middle, Smriti goes on the back foot and pulls flat, just clears the deep square-leg fence

Nandni Sharma to Smriti, 1 run, good length on leg-stump, Smriti shuffles across and flicks to deep mid-wicket

Minnu Mani to Smriti, 1 run, a juicy low full-toss on middle, Smriti gets forward and happily nudges it down to long-on, didn't want to take it on with three fielders on the big leg-side fence

Minnu Mani to Smriti, 1 run, nicely tossed up full on middle, Smriti gets forward and drives to long-off

Minnu Mani to Smriti, wide, the off-break and down leg, Smriti flicks and misses, called a wide

Shafali Verma to Smriti, 1 run, full on middle and leg, Smriti shuffles across to the off-side, heaves and it's off the toe-end, in the air and mid-wicket is open

Shafali Verma to Smriti, FOUR, nice. Not a big gap between backward point and short third man and Smriti has found it. It's a wide length delivery outside off, Smriti reaches for it and opens the face of the bat to glide it right between the two fielders

Shafali Verma to Smriti, 1 run, slower and fuller outside off, Smriti gets forward and waits to drive it to long-off

Shafali Verma to Smriti, 1 run, wide length delivery outside off, Smriti reaches for it and punches it wide of extra-cover

Shree Charani to Smriti, 1 run, good length and turns into middle, Smriti goes on the back foot and tucks it wide of deep mid-wicket for one

Shree Charani to Smriti, 1 run, Shree Charani dives to her right and parries it away, yet they take a quick single. It's a good length delivery and turning in to off, Smriti goes on the back foot and backs away to punch

Shree Charani to Smriti, FOUR, no sweeper cover and Smriti finds the gap past a packed off-side field. It's a good length delivery outside off, Smriti goes on the back foot and uses the depth of the crease to punch it between cover-point and extra-cover

Nandni Sharma to Smriti, SIX, nothing agricultural about this one. It's the sweep and all the way over deep backward square-leg. It's another back of the hand slower-ball and too full on middle, Smriti sinks on her back knee and sends the sweep aerially and there was no fielder there as well

Nandni Sharma to Smriti, FOUR, agricultural but effective. Full just outside off, Smriti hacks across the line and it's in the air but wide of mid-wicket, this is still the powerplay

Nandni Sharma to Smriti, 1 run, short of length outside off, Smriti gets forward and punches to deep extra-cover

Marizanne Kapp to Smriti, 1 run, good diving stop to her left by Jemimah at cover and she saves three. It's full on off, Smriti gets forward and times the cover-drive, Jemi does so well

Chinelle Henry to Smriti, 1 run, short of length on leg-stump, Smriti walks and pulls to deep backward square-leg, straight to the fielder

Chinelle Henry to Smriti, no run, full on middle, Smriti again gets forward andf shows the full face of the bat to drive, but picks out mid-off

Chinelle Henry to Smriti, FOUR, beautiful off-drive. Chinelle Henry goes full, looking for swing, but it's full and Smriti gets forward and shows the full face of the bat to drive it past the stumps, lovely balance and timing

Chinelle Henry to Smriti, byes, 2 runs, so so close to off-stump. It's a length delivery and just outside off, Smriti looks for a pull, misses, Lizelle Lee doesn't bend down low, goes with her right glove, it slips away after she gets something on it and Sneh Rana does well, chasing and diving to pull it back, saves two

Chinelle Henry to Smriti, wide, short of length outside the leg-stump, Smriti looks for the pull, misses, called a wide as Lizelle Lee dives to her right to gather