ICC Ladies’s World Cup 2025: In a surprising show of ability and willpower, India scripted historical past as we speak by defeating Australia within the semi-final of the ICC Ladies’s ODI World Cup, pulling off the very best profitable run chase in match historical past and handing the defending champions their first-ever loss in a World Cup match since 2017. By the way, Australia’s final World Cup defeat had additionally come at India’s arms — within the 2017 semifinal in Derby.
Chasing a frightening goal of 339, India completed with 341 for five, storming into the ultimate for the third time after memorable campaigns in 2005 and 2017. The win additionally snapped Australia’s 15-match profitable streak in World Cups, a document that stretched again to 2022.
Main the cost was Jemimah Rodrigues, who produced an unbeaten masterclass of 127 not out, whereas captain Harmanpreet Kaur anchored the innings with an excellent 89. Their partnership not solely stabilized the chase but additionally remodeled it into one of the vital memorable victories in Indian cricket historical past.
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Earlier, Australia had posted 338 all out in 49.5 overs, setting what appeared an insurmountable goal in a knockout fixture. However India’s batsmen defied all odds, rewriting information within the course of.
This was the primary time in Ladies’s ODI World Cup historical past {that a} 300-plus complete was efficiently chased down — and the primary occasion throughout each Males’s and Ladies’s ODI World Cups the place such a chase was achieved in a knockout sport. The earlier highest profitable chase in a World Cup semifinal or ultimate was 298 by New Zealand in opposition to South Africa within the 2015 Males’s CWC semifinal.
Earlier than as we speak, India had by no means chased a 200-plus complete in a Ladies’s ODI World Cup. The one earlier profitable chase of that scale in a ladies’s knockout got here when England (219) defeated South Africa within the 2017 semifinal at Bristol. India’s 341/5 additionally ranks because the second-highest complete in a Ladies’s ODI run chase, simply behind their 369 all out in opposition to Australia in Delhi final month.
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This match additionally produced the highest-ever match mixture in Ladies’s ODIs — 781 runs — surpassing all earlier information. Rodrigues’ century made her solely the second batsman ever to attain 100 in a World Cup knockout chase, after Nat Sciver-Brunt’s 148 within the 2022 ultimate.
With this victory, India have booked their spot within the ultimate in opposition to South Africa, eyeing their maiden World Cup title, as a workforce that has not simply crushed one of the best, however executed so in record-breaking model.