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ICC Women’s World Cup 2025 Final: The Indian women’s cricket team has reached the final by defeating Australia by 5 wickets in the semi-final match played at DY Patil Sports Academy, Navi Mumbai on 30 October 2025. This victory is historic in many ways, because the Indian team has made the record of the biggest run-chase in women’s ODI cricket. With this historic victory, Team India will play the final match against South Africa on 2 November 2025. The Indian team has so far made it to the finals of the ICC Women’s ODI World Cup thrice. Team India has reached the final for the first time in 2005, for the second time in 2017 and now for the third time in 2025.
How many times did India play the World Cup final?
The Indian women’s cricket team has made it to the final of the Women’s World Cup for the third time. Before this, Team India has played the final twice and had to face defeat both times.
First final: Team India played the final of the Women’s ODI World Cup for the first time in 2005. India faced Australia in South Africa, where Team India lost by 98 runs.
Second final: The Indian team played its second final in 2017. In the final of this Women’s ODI World Cup played in England, England defeated Team India by 9 runs in a thrilling match.
India crushes Australia in semi-finals in 2025
India has defeated Australia in the semi-finals of the ICC Women’s ODI World Cup 2025. Batting first, Australia scored a huge score of 338 runs in the stipulated overs. In reply, the Indian team, chasing this difficult target, achieved a historic victory by losing 5 wickets in 48.3 overs.
Jemimah Rodrigues became a hero: The hero of this historic victory was Jemimah Rodrigues, who scored an excellent century in this knock-out match. Jemima played a match-winning inning of 127 unbeaten runs on 134 balls, for which she was awarded the title of Player of the Match.
Captain’s wonder: Indian team captain Harmanpreet Kaur supported Jemimah very well and scored a brilliant 89 runs in 88 balls, which made India’s path to victory easier.
Strong start: Team India did not have a good start in this match, because opening batsman Shefali Verma was out early. But Smriti Mandhana and Rodrigues handled the innings and laid the foundation of victory.
Performance of other batsmen: Deepti Sharma (24 runs) and Richa Ghosh (26 runs) also played short but useful innings in the end, due to which the Indian team achieved the target with 9 balls remaining.
Let us tell you that by defeating Australia in the semi-finals of the 2025 Women’s ODI World Cup, the Indian team also took revenge for the defeat of 2005, when Australia had defeated India. This time the Indian team has been successful in qualifying for the World Cup final for the third time and it is expected that this time Team India will create history by winning the title.