Legendary Australia captain Meg Lanning has hailed India all rounder Deepti Sharma for taking part in a key position of their Ladies’s World Cup 2025 triumph. Deepti was one of many key members of India’s World Cup squad as she was additionally judged Participant of the Match for her all-round present.
She scored 215 runs from seven innings with three half-centuries and likewise completed as the very best wicket taker of the event with 22 wickets from 9 innings at a median of 20.40. Following her sensational efficiency, Meg Lanning hailed Deepti’s capacity to impression video games with each bat and ball at totally different levels of the sport.
“She is ready to actually impression video games now with each bat and ball. And I believe the opposite actually good factor for the Indian group is that it may be at totally different factors within the innings. There isn’t any actually set approach that she might be profitable. It may be throughout the entire recreation,” Lanning advised ICC Overview.
Lanning additionally stated that it is luxurious for any captain to have a participant who can carry out beneath stress and known as Deepti an essential participant for India.
“To have somebody like that in your aspect who can carry out beneath stress and at any level within the recreation, you already know, she has proven that she will try this fairly persistently. So, little question, (she) has turn into a vital participant for India,” she added.
Deepti saved her finest for the ultimate in opposition to South Africascoring a well-compiled 58 (58) to information India to rating of 298/7 after they had been requested to bat first. She additional registered figures of 5/39 in 9.3 overs with the ball, dismissing massive wickets of Laura Wolvaardt, Annerie Dercksen, Chloe Tryon and Nadine de Klerk.
Following her outstanding World Cup marketing campaign, Deepti has additionally climbed one spot within the ICC ODI all-rounder rankings to occupy fourth place with 392 rankings. Deepti’s achievements had been acknowledged alongside opener Smriti Mandhana and batter Jemimah Rodrigues, with all three being named within the ICC Crew of the Match.
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