TATA WPL 2026: Women’s Premier League teams player, squads, fixture & schedule all you need to know

TATA Women’s Premier League is set to start on 9 January 2026 on Friday at 6:00 PM. Start with Mumbai Indians Women’s taking on Royal Challengers Bangalore women in the opening game at DY Patil Stadium Navi Mumbai. The final of the season will take place on the 5th of February at the Baroda Cricket Associate Stadium at Vadodara.

Skippers in the spotlight 💡

The 5️⃣ #TATAWPL captains got together for the pre-tournament briefing ahead of the 4️⃣th season 🤝#KhelEmotionKa | @DelhiCapitals | @Giant_Cricket | @mipaltan | @RCBTweets | @UPWarriorz pic.twitter.com/iriQu3dTEo

— Women's Premier League (WPL) (@wplt20) January 8, 2026

There are five team taking part in the Women’s Premier League 2026 they are –

• Delhi Capitals Women
• Gujarat Giants Women,
• Mumbai Indians Women
• Royal Challengers Bengaluru Women
• UP Warriorz Women

The total number of matches will be played in the league is 20 the tournament in a double round Robin format. The first place team after the league stages was automatically for the second and third place teams will square off in the Eliminator March on the 3rd of February 2026. The winner of this match will go to play against the first place site in the final match on the 5th of February 2026. During this whole tournament, there are two hosting venues they are DY Patil Stadium Navi & Mumbai Baroda Cricket Association Stadium Vadodara.

In the last edition of WPL Mumbai Indians Women comes out as winner and the runner up was Delhi Capitals woman. With the orange cap winner, Mumbai Indians player Nat Sciver-Brunt with 523 runs and the top wicket taker also from the Mumbai Indians Emilia Kerr with 18 wickets.

Player you may put you’re eyes on –

• Mumbai Indians Women – Harmanpreet Kaur, Nat Sciver-Brunt, Hayley Matthews, Amelia Kerr, Shabnim Ismail
• Royal Challengers Bangalore Women – Smriti Mandhana, Richa Ghosh, Grace Harris, Shreyanka Patil, Lauren Bell
• UP Warriorz Women – Meg Lanning, Deepti Sharma, Sophie Ecclestone, Phoebe Litchfield, Shikha Pandey
• Gujarat Giants Women – Ashleigh Gardner, Beth Mooney, Sophie Devine, Renuka Singh Thakur, Georgia Wareham
• Delhi Capitals Women – Jemimah Rodrigues, Shafali Verma, Marizanne Kapp, Laura Wolvaardt, Chinelle Henry

Squad of the WPL 2026 teams –

Delhi Capitals Women squad

Jemimah Rodrigues (c), Shafali Verma, Marzianne Kapp, Niki Prasad, Laura Wolvaardt, Chinelle Henry, Shree Charani, Sneh Rana, Lizelle Lee, Deeya Yadav, Taniyaa Bhatia, Mamatha Madiwala, Nandni Sharma, Lucy Hamilton, Minnu Mani, Alana King (replacement for Annabel Sutherland)

Gujarat Giants Women squad

Ashleigh Gardner (c), Beth Mooney, Sophie Devine, Renuka Singh Thakur, Bharti Fulmali, Titas Sadhu, Kashee Gautam, Kanika Ahuja, Tanuja Kanwer, Georgia Wareham, Anushka Sharma, Happy Kumari, Kim Garth, Yastika Bhatia, Shivani Singh, Danni Wyatt-Hodge, Rajeshwari Gayakwad, Ayushi Soni

Royal Challengers Bangalore Women squad

Smriti Mandhana (c), Richa Ghosh, Shreyanka Patil, Georgia Voll, Nadine de Klerk, Radha Yadav, Lauren Bell, Linsey Smith, Prema Rawat, Arundhati Reddy, Pooja Vastrakar, Grace Harris, Gautami Naik, Prathyoosha Kumar, D. Hemalatha, Sayali Satghare (replacement for Ellyse Perry)

UP Warriorz Women Squad

Meg Lanning (c), Shweta Sehrawat, Deepti Sharma, Sophie Ecclestone, Phoebe Litchfield, Kiran Navgire, Harleen Deol, Kranti Goud, Asha Sobhana, Deandra Dottin, Shikha Pandey, Shipra Giri, Simran Shaikh, Chloe Tryon, Suman Meena, G. Trisha, Pratika Rawal, Charli Knott (replacement for Tara Norris)

Mumbai Indians Women squad

Harmanpreet Kaur (c), Nat Sciver-Brunt, Hayley Matthews, Amanjot Kaur, G. Kamalini, Amelia Kerr, Shabnim Ismail, Sanskriti Gupta, Sajana Sajeevan, Rahila Firdous, Nicola Carey, Poonam Khemnar, Triveni Vasistha, Nalla Reddy, Saika Ishaque, Milly Illingworth

TATA WPL 2026 SCHEDULE