Indian batting stalwart and former skipper Virat Kohli hailed the Ladies in Blue for his or her gorgeous victory over seven-time champions Australia within the ODI World Cup semifinal, calling it a “true show of resilience, perception, and fervour.” India produced a exceptional efficiency to defeat Australia by 5 wickets on the DY Patil Stadium on Thursday, punching their ticket to their third ICC Ladies’s Cricket World Cup Last after 2005 and 2017, after they completed because the runners-up behind Australia and England, respectively.
Reacting to the triumph, Kohli took to social media platform “What a victory by our group over a mighty opponent like Australia. An excellent chase by the ladies and a standout efficiency by Jemimah in a giant recreation. A real show of resilience, perception, and fervour. Nicely completed, Crew India!” he wrote.
Jemimah Rodrigues starred within the chase with a shocking knock below stress, scoring 127 off 134 deliveries as India chased down a document complete of 339 in Ladies’s ODI historical past.
India’s 341/5 within the semifinal can be the second-highest rating in a Ladies’s ODI run-chase, after their very own 369 all-out towards the identical group in New Delhi final month.
That is the primary time a 300-plus complete was gunned down in an ODI World Cup knockout – Males’s or Ladies’s. The earlier highest had come within the Males’s CWC 2015 semifinal: 298 by New Zealand vs South Africa in Auckland.
India will now look to hold the identical momentum into the ultimate as they chase their maiden Ladies’s World Cup title.
The match hosts India will tackle South Africa, featured in a Ladies’s World Cup Last for the primary time, on Sunday, that means a group will declare the coveted trophy for the very first time.