WPL Highest Successful Chases: All-Time Records

The highest successful chase in the Women's Premier League is 204 for 4, made by Royal Challengers Bengaluru against Delhi Capitals in the 2026 final at Vadodara on 5 February 2026. Delhi had made 203 for 4; Royal Challengers reached the target with two balls left and won their second title.

Second on the list is also Royal Challengers, 202 for 4 against Gujarat Giants at Vadodara in February 2025, made with seven balls to spare. Those are the only two chases above 200 in the competition's four seasons and 88 matches, and the same franchise has both.

Third and fourth belong to Mumbai Indians, 193 for 3 against Gujarat at Navi Mumbai in January 2026 and 191 for 3 against the same opponent at Delhi in March 2024. Harmanpreet Kaur took the individual award in both.

The ten highest successful chases

#	Score	Team	Target	Opponent	Ground	Date
1	204/4 (19.4)	Royal Challengers Bengaluru	204	Delhi Capitals	Vadodara	5 Feb 2026
2	202/4 (18.5)	Royal Challengers Bengaluru	202	Gujarat Giants	Vadodara	14 Feb 2025
3	193/3 (19.3)	Mumbai Indians	193	Gujarat Giants	Navi Mumbai	13 Jan 2026
4	191/3 (19.5)	Mumbai Indians	191	Gujarat Giants	Delhi	9 Mar 2024
5	189/2 (15.5)	Royal Challengers Bangalore	189	Gujarat Giants	Mumbai	18 Mar 2023
6	181/7 (19.5)	UP Warriorz	179	Gujarat Giants	Mumbai	20 Mar 2023
7	178/5 (19.5)	Gujarat Giants	178	Delhi Capitals	Lucknow	7 Mar 2025
8	175/7 (19.5)	UP Warriorz	170	Gujarat Giants	Navi Mumbai	5 Mar 2023
9	173/6 (20.0)	Mumbai Indians	172	Delhi Capitals	Bengaluru	23 Feb 2024
10	170/6 (19.5)	Mumbai Indians	170	Royal Challengers Bengaluru	Bengaluru	21 Feb 2025

Gujarat Giants appear as the defending side in six of the ten. No other franchise appears more than twice in that column.

Vadodara, 5 February 2026

The final. Royal Challengers Bengaluru won the toss and bowled; Delhi Capitals made 203 for 4, which had never been chased in a WPL final and had been chased only once in the competition at all.

Smriti Mandhana made 87 from 41 balls and Georgia Voll 79 from 54. They added 165 for the second wicket — the highest partnership in WPL history — and by the time the stand was broken the target had shrunk to a formality. Royal Challengers finished on 204 for 4 in 19.4 overs. Mandhana took the award.

It was Royal Challengers' second title, after 2024, and Delhi's third defeat in a final in four seasons. Delhi have been the strongest league-stage side across the competition's history and have not won it.

The match is the only WPL game in which both innings passed 200, and it is on the WPL highest team totals list twice for that reason.

The 15.5-over chase

The most emphatic entry on the list is not the highest. On 18 March 2023, at the Brabourne Stadium, Royal Challengers Bangalore chased 189 against Gujarat Giants in 15.5 overs for the loss of two wickets — 25 balls to spare, the largest margin by that measure in the competition.

Sophie Devine took the award. It is the only chase of 180 or more in WPL history completed inside sixteen overs, and it stands out from a list on which almost every other entry went into the last over: seven of the ten were finished with seven balls or fewer remaining.

That distribution is the more informative thing about the list. Big chases in this competition are close chases. The scoring rates required — around ten an over for the top four — leave no margin, and a side that loses two wickets in the fifteenth over usually falls short rather than recovering.

Gujarat Giants and the defending problem

Six of the ten highest chases in the competition have been made against Gujarat Giants, including three of the top four. Across four seasons they have posted 189, 191, 193, 179, 170 and 202 and lost every one of those matches.

That is not a batting failure. Gujarat also appear four times on the highest-totals list, more than any franchise except Delhi. The problem is what happens with the ball in the last five overs, and the pattern has been consistent enough across four squads and three captains that it looks structural rather than incidental.

Their bowling economy rates across the competition sit at the higher end, and they have not had a bowler in the top four of the WPL most wickets list. In a competition where the highest chase is 204 and the average first-innings total is around 160, a side that cannot defend 190 will lose a great many matches it might have won.

What counts as a match-winning total

The practical answer, on four seasons of evidence, is higher than most sides assume. Two chases above 200 have succeeded and one 200-plus total has been defended — Delhi's 203 in the 2026 final was not, but UP's 225 at Lucknow was, against a side that made 213 going for it.

Below 200 the picture is more even. Around 170 to 180 has been chased successfully six times in the top ten of this list, which is a small number set against the total of matches in which such a target was set. Most defences of 170 have held. The chases that make this page are the exceptions, and they cluster in two places: Vadodara and Navi Mumbai, and the 2025 and 2026 seasons.

Five of the ten have come in the last two seasons, which matches what has happened to the highest totals over the same period. The batting has deepened faster than the bowling, and the chase list is where that shows up most clearly, because a side batting second knows exactly what it needs and can price the risk.

For the individual performances inside these chases see the WPL most runs leaderboard. The competition's franchises, format and auction are on the women's Premier League guide; the international careers of the Indian players named are on the India women's most runs list and in the India women's cricket history guide; and the wider game is on the cricket in India hub.

Chasing has been the winning choice

Across four seasons the sides that won the toss have overwhelmingly chosen to bowl, and the chase list explains why. Vadodara and Navi Mumbai both hold dew in the evening, which makes the ball harder to grip in the second innings and the outfield faster; a captain who bowls first is buying a better surface to bat on.

Royal Challengers bowled first in the 2026 final and won. Of the ten highest chases, six came in matches where the chasing side had won the toss and put the opposition in; in the other four the side batting first had won the toss and elected to bat, and then lost. Gujarat Giants chose to bat in three of those four.

The counter-argument is the one at the top of the totals list: UP Warriorz batted first at Lucknow, made 225 and won. A total large enough removes the dew advantage entirely, because no amount of grip solves a required rate of eleven from the start. But 225 has been made once in 88 matches, and 200 four times, so the strategy is not widely available.

The players who finish them

The awards from these ten matches cluster in a small group. Harmanpreet Kaur took three and Grace Harris two; Smriti Mandhana, Sophie Devine, Richa Ghosh, Harleen Deol and Amanjot Kaur took one each.

That list is worth reading against the batting order. Mandhana and Devine open; Harmanpreet, Deol and Rodrigues bat at three or four. Only Ghosh, Harris and Amanjot Kaur come from lower than five, which suggests that a WPL chase of 180 or more is generally won by the top four getting most of the way rather than by a finisher.

Mandhana's award in the final is the clearest case. Her 87 from 41 took the required rate from ten an over to below eight inside eight overs, and the rest of the innings was a matter of not losing wickets. That is what a successful chase of 204 looks like in this competition: it is decided in the powerplay and the six overs after it, not at the death.

Sources and method

A successful chase means the side batting second reached its target and won. Every entry is computed from the complete ball-by-ball record of that innings, across all 88 Women's Premier League matches played in the 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026 seasons.

The score column gives the runs made and wickets lost by the chasing side, with the overs used. The target column gives the runs required to win. Where the score exceeds the target by more than one — the two UP Warriorz entries, and Mumbai's 173 — the winning runs came from a boundary or from extras on the final delivery, so the side finished above what it needed. None of the ten was a shortened or revised-target match; all were played over the full twenty overs.

Chases in matches with no result, and totals reached in a super over, are excluded. Records are complete to the 2026 final on 5 February 2026, and the partnership figure quoted for that match is computed from the same record rather than taken from a summary.