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Women's Premier League 2025: The third season of the Women's Premier League is all set to kick off on Friday, February 14 and the matches will be played across four venues in Vadodara, Bengaluru, Mumbai and Lucknow.

The tournament will have the opening match between defending champions Royal Challengers Bengaluru and Gujarat Titans at the Kotambi Stadium. RCB defeated Delhi Capitals by 8 wickets in the final last year to lift their maiden WPL title.

Smriti Mandhana will be leading the RCB team whereas Australia's senior all-rounder Ashleigh Gardner will be captaining the Giants for the first time, having replaced Beth Mooney for the role.

Harmanpreet Kaur’s Mumbai Indians became the champions of the first edition. They also defeated Delhi in the summit clash.


Let's take a look at the brief summary of the first two seasons of the Women's Premier League and the title-winning campaigns of MI and RCB.

 

WPL 2023

The inaugural season of WPL witnessed sheer dominance from MI as they kicked off their campaign with a monumental win by 143 runs over Gujarat Giants. They kept the winning run going in the next four games before suffering their first defeat of the season against UP Warriorz.

The Harmanpreet-led side lost the return fixture against Gujarat as well. They lost their penultimate league game against Delhi Capitals but managed to finish second in the standings with 12 points.

Mumbai were up against UP Warriorz in the Eliminator. Facing the opponents for the third time in the season, this time MI came up with an improved performance. Nat Sciver-Brunt's unbeaten 72-run knock helped MI score 182 runs. They went on to win the match by 72 runs.

On the other hand, DC topped the standings and reached the final where they met MI.

MI put up an excellent bowling show and restricted their opponents to 131 runs in the summit clash.

Nat Sciver-Brunt once again produced an impactful effort. The English all-rounder remained unbeaten at 60 while Harmanpreet Kaur contributed 37 to chase down the target in 19.3 overs.


MI's WPL 2023 title-winning campaign

beat Gujarat Giants by 143 runs in Navi Mumbai

beat Royal Challengers Bengaluru by 9 wickets in Mumbai

beat Delhi Capitals by 8 wickets in Navi Mumbai

beat UP Warriorz by 8 wickets in Mumbai

beat Gujarat Giants by 55 runs in Mumbai

lost against UP Warriorz by 5 wickets in Navi Mumbai

lost against Delhi Capitals by 9 wickets in Navi Mumbai

beat Royal Challengers Bengaluru by 4 wickets in Navi Mumbai

beat UP Warriorz by 72 runs in Eliminator in Navi Mumbai

beat Delhi Capitals by 7 wickets in final in Mumbai

 

WPL 2024

Having finished last in the first season of WPL, Royal Challengers Bengaluru were immensely desperate to make it count in the 2024 season. However, they were off to a disappointing start and managed to clinch just three wins in the first seven matches.

In their last league match, the Smriti Mandhana-led RCB got the better of defending champions MI by 7 wickets to secure a place in the play-off.

The two teams went head-to-head in the knockout game and Bengaluru once again outplayed Mumbai to progress to the final.

In their second successive appearance in the WPL final, DC faced a batting collapse as RCB's Shreyanka Patil and Sophie Molineux shared seven wickets between them. RCB were not troubled much during the chase and wrapped up the game with three balls in hand.

 

RCB's WPL 2024 title-winning campaign

beat UP Warriorz by 2 runs in Bengaluru

beat Gujarat Giants by 8 wickets in Bengaluru

lost against Delhi Capitals by 25 runs in Bengaluru

lost against Mumbai Indians by 7 wickets in Bengaluru

beat UP Warriorz by 23 runs in Bengaluru

lost against Gujarat Giants by 19 runs in Delhi

lost against Delhi Capitals by 1 runs in Delhi

beat Mumbai Indians by 7 wickers in Delhi

beat Mumbai Indians by 5 runs in Eliminator in Delhi

beat Delhi Capitals by 8 wickets in final in Delhi