By Admin 
Indian women’s cricket team has created history in ODI cricket and made it to the final of the World Cup by defeating Australia in the semi-finals. The hero of India’s victory was Jemimah Rodrigues, who wrote a memorable story of India’s historic victory by playing an unbeaten inning of 127 runs.
In the match played at DY Patil Sports Academy, the Indian team had a target of 339 runs to win. The Indian team had lost the wickets of both its openers Shefali Verma and Smriti Mandhana on the score of 59. Mandhana was out after scoring 24 runs and Shefali was out after scoring 10 runs. The Indian team was in trouble after both the wickets fell.
167 run partnership between Jemimah Rodrigues and captain Harmanpreet Kaur
Jemimah Rodrigues and captain Harmanpreet Kaur made a comeback for the team by making a partnership of 167 runs for the third wicket. On the score of 226, Harman was out after playing an important inning of 89 runs with the help of 10 fours and 2 sixes in 88 balls. After this, Rodrigues made a partnership of 38 runs with Deepti Sharma for the fourth wicket. Deepti was out after scoring 24 runs on 17 balls. Richa Ghosh scored 26 runs on 16 balls, while Amanjot remained unbeaten on 15 runs on 8 balls. Amidst all this, Jemimah Rodrigues held one end and played an unbeaten inning of 127 runs in 134 balls with the help of 14 fours. India won the match by 5 wickets by scoring 341 runs at the loss of 5 wickets in 48.3 overs.
331 runs were never chased in women’s cricket history
Let us tell you that in the past, 331 runs had never been chased in the history of women’s cricket. Because of Jemima, India made the record of achieving the biggest target in ODI cricket by achieving the target of 339 runs against Australia. The Indian team will face South Africa in the final on 2 November.
Australia won the toss and batted first and scored 338 runs with the help of Phoebe Litchfield’s century. Lichfield played an innings of 119 runs in 93 balls with the help of 3 sixes and 17 fours. Apart from this, Elsie Perry scored 77 runs and Ashley Gardner scored 63 runs hitting 4 sixes and 4 fours in 45 balls.
For India, Shri Charani, Deepti Sharma took 2-2 wickets, Kranti Gaur, Amanjot Kaur and Radha Yadav took 1-1 wicket. Three batsmen were run out.