India stormed into the Ladies’s ODI World Cup 2025 closing after gorgeous defending champions Australia by 5 wickets within the semifinal. The victory got here with historical past made — India efficiently chased 339 runs, the best profitable chase ever recorded in Ladies’s ODI cricket. Jemimah Rodrigues performed the lead position, crafting a sensational 127* off 134 balls, whereas Harmanpreet Kaur supported brilliantly with a vital 89, guiding India to a memorable win and securing a title conflict towards South Africa.
This chase now tops the listing of highest profitable run-chases in Ladies’s ODI cricket. The earlier report belonged to Australia, who had chased 331 towards India in Visakhapatnam earlier this yr. Earlier than that, Sri Lanka’s 302-run chase towards South Africa in Potchefstroom in 2024 had stood as a landmark. Different notable chases embrace Australia overhauling 289 versus New Zealand at North Sydney in 2012, and their 283 and 282-run pursuits towards India on the Wankhede (2023) and New Chandigarh (2025) respectively. However none match India’s extraordinary 339 towards Australia in Navi Mumbai, 2025 now the best of all of them.
As soon as In A Lifetime Innings
Rodrigues stood agency producing one of many biggest World Cup knocks to anchor India’s chase. The chase wasn’t easy. India confronted an early setback when Shafali Verma fell within the second over, additionally dropping a assessment. Rodrigues then stitched a 46-run stand with Smriti Mandhana, earlier than Mandhana departed to Kim Garth within the tenth over.
From there, Rodrigues and captain Harmanpreet Kaur took management, piecing collectively a match-defining 167-run partnership off simply 156 balls that shifted the momentum fully.
Australia’s depth within the area dropped as strain mounted. The defining second got here within the thirty third over, when Alyssa Healy dropped Rodrigues on 82. A second reprieve adopted within the forty third over, when Tahlia McGrath put down one other regulation catch, giving Rodrigues a life on 106. These dropped possibilities saved India in command. Rodrigues additionally turned simply the second participant to attain a century in a World Cup knockout chase, after Nat Sciver-Brunt’s 148* within the 2022 closing.
Highest match aggregates in Ladies’s ODIs
Combination Match Venue 12 months
781 IND-W vs AUS-W Delhi 2025
679 IND-W vs AUS-W Mumbai DYP, 2025 WC 2025
678 ENG-W vs SA-W Bristol, 2017 WC 2017
661 IND-W vs AUS-W Visakhapatnam 2025
651 IND-W vs SA-W Colombo RPS 2025
Historic Finish To Streaks
A monumental evening in ladies’s cricket introduced a number of historic streaks to an finish. Australia’s dominant 15-match World Cup successful run, stretching from 2022 to 2025, was lastly snapped. Remarkably, each of Australia’s latest semifinal exits within the Ladies’s ODI World Cup have now come by the hands of India first in Derby 2017, and now in Navi Mumbai, 2025.
This victory additionally marks India’s third entry right into a Ladies’s ODI World Cup closing, following runner-up finishes in 2005 and 2017. Crucially, earlier than this match, India had by no means efficiently chased a complete of over 200 in a Ladies’s ODI World Cup.
Tonight rewrote the information: this turned the first-ever profitable 300+ chase in an ODI World Cup knockout match throughout each males’s and ladies’s tournaments. The earlier finest chase in a World Cup knockout was 298 by New Zealand towards South Africa within the Males’s World Cup 2015 semifinal.