The wait is lastly over! The fourth version of the Women’s Premier League (WPL) is about to mild up the stage beginning tomorrow, January 9, 2026. After a headline-grabbing Mega Public sale in New Delhi final November, the 5 franchises have finalized their rosters, and the panorama of the league has shifted dramatically.
This season brings large shake-ups—none greater than Meg Lanning’s transfer to UP Warriorz and Jemimah Rodrigues taking on the captaincy reins at Delhi Capitals. With the primary ball simply hours away, let’s take a look on the WPL 2026 squads and the captains main the cost.
WPL 2026: Event construction
The 2026 version of WPL follows the established and high-stakes double round-robin format. All 5 groups—Mumbai Indians, Delhi Capitals, UP Warriorz, Royal Challengers Bengaluru, and Gujarat Giants—will face one another twice within the league stage, totaling 20 matches. The competitors this yr adopts a two-leg “caravan” mannequin: the primary half of the season can be hosted in Navi Mumbai, earlier than the motion shifts to Vadodara for the enterprise finish of the match.
The group ending on the high of the factors desk will earn a direct ticket to the Grand Ultimate on February 5. In the meantime, the groups ending second and third will battle it out within the high-pressure ‘Eliminator’ match to find out the second finalist, guaranteeing each web run charge calculation stays essential till the final ball of the group stage.
WPL 2026: Full squads of all 5 groups
Mumbai Indians
Captain: Harmanpreet Kaur
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
Delhi Capitals
Captain: Jemimah Rodrigues
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 (substitute for Annabel Sutherland)
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Royal Challengers Bengaluru
Captain: Smriti Mandhana
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 (substitute for Ellyse Perry)
Gujarat Giants
Captain: Ashleigh Gardner
Beth Mooney, Sophie Devine, Renuka Singh Thakur, Bharti Fulmali, Titas Sadhu, Kashee Gautam, Kanika Ahuja, Tanuja Kanwer, Georgia Wareham, Anushka Sharma, Glad Kumari, Kim Garth, Yastika Bhatia, Shivani Singh, Danni Wyatt-Hodge, Rajeshwari Gayakwad, Ayushi Soni
UP Warriorz
Captain: Meg Lanning
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 (substitute for Tara Norris)
Additionally READ: WPL 2026: Gujarat Giants’ best playing XI for the Women’s Premier League
This text was first printed at WomenCricket.com, a Cricket Times firm.
