The wait is finally over! The fourth edition of the is set to light up the stage starting tomorrow, January 9, 2026. After a headline-grabbing Mega Auction in New Delhi last November, the five franchises have finalized their rosters, and the landscape of the league has shifted dramatically.
This season brings massive shake-ups—none bigger than Meg Lanning’s move to UP Warriorz and taking over the captaincy reins at Delhi Capitals. With the first ball just hours away, let’s have a look at the WPL 2026 squads and the captains leading the charge.
WPL 2026: Tournament structure
The 2026 edition of WPL follows the established and high-stakes double round-robin format. All five teams—Mumbai Indians, Delhi Capitals, UP Warriorz, Royal Challengers Bengaluru, and Gujarat Giants—will face each other twice in the league stage, totaling 20 matches. The competition this year adopts a two-leg “caravan” model: the first half of the season will be hosted in Navi Mumbai, before the action shifts to Vadodara for the business end of the tournament.
The team finishing at the top of the points table will earn a direct ticket to the Grand Final on February 5. Meanwhile, the teams finishing second and third will battle it out in the high-pressure ‘Eliminator’ match to determine the second finalist, ensuring every net run rate calculation remains crucial until the very last ball of the group stage.
WPL 2026: Complete squads of all five teams
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 (replacement 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 (replacement 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, Happy 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 (replacement for Tara Norris)
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