Sophie Devine’s stormy show, Lizel Lee and Wolvaard’s efforts went in vain, Gujarat beats Delhi by 4 runs

In the fourth match of Women’s Premier League 2026, Gujarat Giants defeated Delhi Capitals by 4 runs in a thrilling match. Batting first, thanks to the stormy innings of Sophie Devine (95), Gujarat scored a huge score of 209 runs.

WPL 2026, Delhi Capitals Women vs Gujarat Giants Women Highlights: In the fourth match of Women’s Premier League 2026, Gujarat Giants defeated Delhi Capitals by 4 runs in a thrilling match. Batting first, Gujarat scored a huge score of 209 runs thanks to the stormy innings of Sophie Devine (95). In reply, Liezel Lee (86) and Laura Wolvaardt (77) tried hard for Delhi, but the team missed the target.

The fourth match of the Women’s Premier League 2026 was played on Sunday (January 11) between Delhi Capitals and Gujarat Giants at the DY Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai. When invited to bat first, Sophie Devine batted brilliantly for Gujarat Giants and played a stormy innings of 95 runs with the help of 7 fours and 8 sixes in 42 balls. Captain Ashley Gardner also supported him well and added 49 runs on 26 balls. Thanks to these innings, Gujarat Giants scored a strong score of 209 runs in 20 overs.

Nandini Sharma was the most successful in bowling for Delhi Capitals, taking 5 wickets for 33 runs in 4 overs. Apart from them, Chinal Henry and Shri Charani got 2-2 wickets, while Shefali Verma also made a breakthrough.

210 Delhi Capitals had a great start while chasing the target of runs. Lizelle Lee played a tremendous inning of 86 runs in 54 balls, which included 12 fours and 3 sixes. With him, Laura Wolvaardt made a quick partnership of 90 runs in 55 balls for the second wicket. Woolward made the match completely exciting by scoring 77 runs in 38 balls.

In the middle order, captain Jemimah Rodrigues scored 15 runs and made an important partnership with Laura Wolvaardt for the fourth wicket and took the match till the end. In the last over, Delhi needed 7 runs to win, but under pressure, the wickets of Jemimah Rodrigues and then Laura Wolvaardt fell, due to which the team missed the target by 4 runs.

For Gujarat Giants, Sophie Divine and Rajeshwari Gaikwad took 2 wickets each, while Kashvi Gautam also got 1 wicket.

The overall result of the match was that Gujarat Giants won by 4 runs in a thrilling fashion and secured 2 points and secured the first position in the points table with 4 points. At the same time, Delhi Capitals had to face its second consecutive defeat and the team is still not able to open its account in the points table.