Harmanpreet Kaur breaks all-time World Cup document throughout last in opposition to South Africa


Harmanpreet Kaur broke the document of legendary Belinda Clark throughout the Ladies’s World Cup 2025 last. India are trying to find their maiden ICC title in senior ladies’s cricket as they face South Africa within the summit conflict.

New Delhi:

India captain Harmanpreet Kaur etched her title into the historical past books throughout her group’s World Cup 2025 last in opposition to South Africa on Sunday, November 2, in Navi Mumbai. 

Kaur broke the document of legendary former Australia captain Belinda Clark throughout the last on the Dr DY Patil Sports activities Academy. The India captain went previous the document of Clark for many runs in knockouts of Ladies’s ODI World Cups. 

Coming into the ultimate, Kaur was on 311 runs from three innings with all three scores of fifty-plus within the knockouts. She wanted solely 20 runs to go previous the Aussie legend and went previous her within the second part of the primary innings. 

Most runs in Ladies’s World Cup knockouts:

1 – Harmanpreet Kaur: 331 runs in 4 innings

2 – Belinda Clark: 330 runs in six innings

3 – Alyssa Healy: 309 runs in 4 innings

4 – Nat Sciver-Brunt: 281 runs in 5 innings

5 – Debbie Hockley: 240 runs in 5 innings

Kaur’s robust run within the knockouts

Coming into the ultimate, Harmanpreet had scored all scores in extra of fifty within the World Cup knockouts, together with that insane knock of 171 in opposition to Australia within the 2017 World Cup semifinal. She had scored 51 within the 2017 World Cup last in opposition to England and 89 in opposition to Australia within the 2025 semifinal.

In the meantime, her fifty-hitting streak got here to an finish within the last of the 2025 version of the event as she was dismissed for 20, simply after proudly owning the document. Kaur was cleaned up by Nonkululeko Mlaba within the thirty ninth over, making an attempt to chop a good-length ball.

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