RCB Vs MI Highlights, WPL 2026: Richa Ghosh's Fight In Vain, Hayley Matthews Stars in Mumbai Indians' Victory

Hello cricket fans! Welcome to the live coverage of match 16 of WPL 2026 at the BCA Stadium, Vadodara. Stay tuned for the live score and real-time updates of the match here.

Royal Challengers Bengaluru Women Squad: Grace Harris, Smriti Mandhana(c), Georgia Voll, Gautami Naik, Richa Ghosh(w), Radha Yadav, Nadine de Klerk, Arundhati Reddy, Sayali Satghare, Shreyanka Patil, Lauren Bell, Prathyoosha Kumar, Prema Rawat, Dayalan Hemalatha, Pooja Vastrakar, Linsey Smith

Mumbai Indians Women Squad: Sajeevan Sajana, Hayley Matthews, Nat Sciver-Brunt, Harmanpreet Kaur(c), Nicola Carey, Amanjot Kaur, Sanskriti Gupta, Rahila Firdous(w), Vaishnavi Sharma, Poonam Khemnar, Shabnim Ismail, Saika Ishaque, Milly Illingworth, Triveni Vasistha, Nalla Kranthi Reddy, Amelia Kerr

Both teams have fought each other fiercely through the first four seasons. They have played eight matches against each other. While MI have won four, so did RCB. The winner of this game will give one of them a lead.

Royal Challengers Bengaluru have won the coin toss, elected to field first against Mumbai Indians

Mumbai Indians Women: Sajeevan Sajana, Hayley Matthews, Nat Sciver-Brunt, Harmanpreet Kaur(c), Amelia Kerr, Rahila Firdous(w), Amanjot Kaur, Sanskriti Gupta, Vaishnavi Sharma, Shabnim Ismail, Poonam Khemnar

Royal Challengers Bengaluru Women: Grace Harris, Smriti Mandhana(c), Georgia Voll, Gautami Naik, Richa Ghosh(w), Radha Yadav, Nadine de Klerk, Arundhati Reddy, Sayali Satghare, Shreyanka Patil, Lauren Bell

Just like every previous game this season, Lauren Bell makes the new ball talk in the opening over. Good shape on the ball with probing lengths troubled openers Hayley Matthews and Sajeevan Sajana. Although MI manage to hold on to their wickets and play out the over.

MI 7/0 (1)

Not the best of the starts for Mumbai Indians as they lose one of their openers cheaply against. Sajeevan Sajana was struggling against the new ball movement from Lauren Bell and she ends up getting hit on the pads. Umpire adjudges her LBW. Hayley Matthews and Nat Sciver-Brunt looking to rebuild.

MI 30/1 (4)

After the early loss of Sajana, MI have eventually found rhythm in their batting through their overseas players. Hayley Matthews and Nat Sciver-Brunt have both kept the scoreboard ticking, finding occasional boundaries. They are off to a good start now and pressure is on RCB.

RCB 57/1 (8)

Mumbai Indians are dominating the game ever since the first wicket tumbled. Both Hayley Matthews and Nat Sciver-Brunt took their time to settle on the crease and then accelerated quickly to inject momentum into the MI innings. Currently they are looking unstoppable with Sciver-Brunt already completing her half-century.

MI 107/1 (12)

52 runs in just four overs. Shows the amount of dominance Mumbai Indians is showing with the bat. Lauren Bell cleans up Hayley Matthews but it was not enough to slow them down. Sciver-Brunt continues to trouble bowlers and Harmanpreet Kaur has flexed her muscles as well. RCB will look to restrict opponents from getting a strong finish.

MI 159/2 (16)

The ever-consistent Nat Sciver-Brunt steps up on the occasion again as she scores a brilliant century powering MI to a competitive 199/4. MI lost a wicket early but since Sciver-Brunt arrived on the crease, they have completely dominated RCB. She stayed unbeaten till the end and completed her hundred, also providing her team a strong finish. RCB have a challenge in hand.

MI 199/4 (20)

Royal Challengers Bengaluru eye an explosive start riding on their aggressor Grace Harris. Harris targets the MI opening bowlers and plunders them from plenty to set up the tone for a big chase. Harmanpreet Kaur will now how dangerous Harris can be.

RCB 20/0 (2)

Despite a fast start in the first two overs, RCB has collapses. Grace Harris departs in the next over of Shabnim Ismail and from there RCB's innings goes downhill. Hayley Matthews removes Georgia Voll and Smriti Mandhana in her next over and Ismail returns to dismiss Gautami Naik. RCB are in tatters now and have a steep road to climb.

RCB 35/4 (5)

RCB lose half the side in no time at all. They look extremely vulnerable and continue to tumble. Hayley Matthews returns to strike again. Baits Radha Yadav into the shot and the latter ends up playing it to the hands of the long-on fielder. RCB are in deep trouble now.

RCB 55/5 (8)

RCB Women move to 70/5 after a slightly productive over worth 10 runs. It begins with a wide before Nadine de Klerk and Richa Ghosh rotate strike with a string of singles, keeping things ticking without taking big risks. A dot ball in between shows the bowlers are still maintaining control, and crucially, there’s still no boundary to ease the pressure. Nadine looks the more assured of the two on 23 off 17, placing the ball into gaps nicely, while Richa Ghosh, on 15 off 17, is grinding it out as RCBW try to stitch together a much-needed partnership.

RCB 70/5 (10)

Amelia Kerr removes Nadine de Klerk first ball with a googly that results in a top-edged slog sweep, well caught by Sciver-Brunt in the deep. Kerr then keeps Arundhati Reddy under pressure, even drawing a stumping check, while runs remain hard to find. Just three from the over, with two coming as leg byes to Richa Ghosh, RCBW in a spot of bother.

RCB 80/6 (12)

Richa Ghosh is playing a lone hand and has kept RCB in the game with an outside chance. The target seems elusive with too far to go but Richa has not backed down from taking the bowlers on. Arundhati Reddy is giving her a solid support as well. Despite that, MI at top.

RCB 123/6 (16)

Two wickets in the same over and MI inch closer to victory. Arundhati Reddy was trying to go hard but loses her wicket against Amanjot Kaur as she hit one straight back at the bowler. In the next ball, Sayali Satghare goes for a risky single and gets run out. MI will be confident of closing the game down here.

RCB 141/8 (18)

An incredible fight from Richa Ghosh but in ended up being in vain at the end as Mumbai Indians secure a narrow 15-run victory. The target looked too far at the end of the 15th over mark but Richa had other plans. Some clinical power-hitting from her and she brought RCB to touching distance. MI will be relieved to get back to winning ways. They were able to restrict RCB at 184/9. All-round performance from Hayley Matthews and the century from Nat Sciver-Brunt were the key factors behind the victory.