With Mumbai Indians outshining Delhi Capitals in the Grand Final of the Women’s Premier League (WPL) 2025, Mumbai won their second WPL title, becoming the first-ever WPL team to win multiple trophies.
It was a complete team effort from the inaugural WPL champions to take home their second WPL trophy and as the dust settles on a thrilling WPL season, we also saw quite a few records break as Nat Sciver-Brunt finished the season with the Orange Cap, scoring the most runs in a single season by an individual.
Here we have listed out the best of the best with the bat, looking at each season’s Orange Cap winners till date.
Meg Lanning (Delhi Capitals) – 345 runs – WPL 2023
Delhi Capitals’ Meg Lanning led from the front for her team, taking her team to the Final in the inaugural WPL season, back in 2023. Lanning got things underway in style, smashing 72 from 43 deliveries in Delhi’s very first WPL game against RCB, which saw Delhi win by 60 runs. She followed it up with another explosive 70(42) against UP Warriorz and along with Shafali Verma, regularly gave the Capitals a strong start at the top of the order.
Lanning’s form saw Delhi finish the league stage at the top of the table and sail into the final, where they faced Mumbai Indians. Lanning was Delhi’s highest scorer in the low-scoring final, with her fighting 35 making sure Delhi got to a respectable total. While Delhi were unable to defend that score, Lanning herself walked away with the Orange cap.
Lanning finished WPL 2023 with 345 runs from 9 games at an average of 49.28, striking at 139.11. She registered two fifties in the season with the highest score of 72.
Ellyse Perry (Royal Challengers Bengaluru) – 347 runs – WPL 2024
The women’s game’s finest, cricketing royalty, and a large part of Royal Challengers Bengaluru’s (RCB) triumph in 2024 was due to their star all-rounder Ellyse Perry’s form, with the bat and ball. Perry’s first outing with the bat in WPL 2024 wasn’t a successful one though, as coming in early in the powerplay saw Perry make only 8 against the UP Warriorz. She got some runs and spent time in the middle in the second game against Gujarat Giants, chasing a moderate 108, sealing the chase with a calm and composed 23*. She scored a fighting 44* in RCB’s batting collapse against Mumbai, before getting her first half-century of the season against UP Warriorz, with a quick-fire 58 from 37 balls.
As RCB went deeper into the tournament, Perry hit sixth gear as well, moving up the order and becoming key for RCB at No.3. Perry top-scored for RCB in their Eliminator game against Mumbai, where her 66 helped RCB get to 135/6, and the Bengaluru squad stole a 5 run win with Perry later contributing with the ball as well. In the Final, it was Perry’s 35* in a chase of 114 which saw RCB lift the WPL trophy with Perry signing off the season with not only the WPL trophy but the Orange Cap as well.
The Australia superstar ended the WPL 2024 season as the top run-getter, scoring 347 runs from 9 games at an incredible average of 69.40 with two fifty-plus scores.
Nat Sciver-Brunt (Mumbai Indians) – 523 runs – WPL 2025
Nat Sciver-Brunt in the WPL 2025 was head and shoulders above the competition as the veteran English all-rounder broke the Orange Cap record, finishing the season with the most runs by a batter in an individual WPL season. Sciver-Brunt’s stellar WPL 2025 also saw her overtake Ellyse Perry to become the highest run-getter in the WPL history, topping the table with 1027 runs.
A main-stay at Mumbai’s No.3, Sciver-Brunt started Mumbai’s campaign with a bang, scoring 80* in Mumbai’s opening game against Delhi. She followed it up with a well composed 57 to give Mumbai their first win of the season, and consistently got runs in almost every game. Be it a quick 40, or a 75* in a chase, Sciver-Brunt did whatever her team needed from her with the bat (and ball as well). Sciver-Brunt’s consistency with the bat, gave captain Harmanpreet Kaur the freedom to express herself as Mumbai’s No. 3 and No. 4 were in top form in WPL 2025.
In the Eliminator against Gujarat Giants, Sciver-Brunt along with Hayley Matthews put on a 133-run partnership, getting 77 herself to see Mumbai put up a massive 213/4 which they defended with ease. In another low-scoring final against Delhi, Mumbai were on the backfoot after Marizanne Kapp’s double strike early on, but it was Sciver-Brunt and Kaur who rebuilt the innings and made sure Mumbai got to a respectable 149/7, which they ended up defending to win their second title.
Sciver-Brunt meanwhile took home the Orange Cap, by quite a distance, amassing 523 runs from the 10 games at an average of 65.37 while striking at 152.47 and registering five fifty-plus scores this season alone. The second highest run scorer was Ellyse Perry with 372, over 150 runs less than Sciver-Brunt.
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