What is the news?
In the fourth match of the Women’s Premier League (WPL) 2026, Delhi Capitals (DC) fast bowler Nandani Sharma bowled brilliantly against Gujarat Giants (GG) and took 5 wickets including a hat-trick. She has become the first bowler to take a hat-trick for DC in WPL history. Similarly, she has also become the first bowler to take a hat-trick in this edition. Due to his bowling, DC team was successful in restricting GG to 209 runs.
How was Nandani’s bowling?
Nandani opened her account of wickets by giving the second blow to GG by dismissing Sophie Devine (95) on a total score of 126 runs in the 11th over of the innings and in the second over of her quota. After this, in the 20th and last over of her quota, she also showed the way to the pavilion to Kashvi Gautam (14), Kanika Ahuja (4), Rajeshwari Gaikwad (0) and Renuka Singh (0). Nandani achieved these successes by spending 33 runs in 4 overs.
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– While everyone was busy watching #INDvsNZNandini Sharma of Delhi Capitals took an unbelievable hat-trick🔥
WPL Hat-tricks :
Issy Wong – 2023
Deepti Sharma – 2024
Grace Harris – 2025
Nandini Sharma – 2026#WPL2026 pic.twitter.com/GtQd8alBxt— John Badhan (@john_badhan) January 11, 2026
How Nandani completed her hat-trick
Nandani first made Kashvi her victim on the second ball of the last over of the innings. After this, she completed the hat-trick by making Kanika her victim on the fourth ball, Rajeshwari on the fifth ball and Renuka on the sixth ball. The great thing is that this is only Nandani’s second competition. With this she has become only the fourth bowler in WPL history to score a hat-trick. Due to his bowling, GG could not make any bigger score.
Nandani is the fourth bowler to take a hat-trick in WPL history.
Nandani is only the fourth bowler to take a hat-trick in WPL history. She has registered her name in the list of players like Issie Wong, Deepti Sharma and Grace Harris. Wong took a hat-trick for Mumbai Indians against UP Warriors (UPW) in 2023, Deepti Sharma took a hat-trick for UPW against DC in 2024 and Grace Harris took a hat-trick for UPW against DC in the 2025 edition.
Nandini is the 7th bowler to take 5 wickets in WPL.
Nandani is the 7th bowler in WPL history to take 5 wicket haul. She is also the third DC bowler to take a 5-wicket haul after Marizanne Kapp (5/15 vs GG) and Tara Norris (5/29 vs RCB). Nandini made her WPL debut against Mumbai Indians on Saturday. In that match he took 2 wickets for 26 runs. Now with this 5 wicket haul against GG he has completed 7 wickets in 2 matches.

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