By Admin 
Women’s World Cup 2025 Semi-Final: India has secured a place in the semi-finals of the Women’s World Cup 2025 by defeating New Zealand. It was a do or die situation for India in the match played against New Zealand on 23 October. It was very important for Team India to win this match. If India had lost this match, then Team India would have been out of this World Cup. There were many big reasons for India’s victory in this match. Batting first, Team India scored a huge score against the opposition team. After this, the bowlers of the Indian team also showed amazing performance in this match. Let us know the 5 big reasons for India’s victory.
1- India got a strong opening
The biggest reason for India’s victory against New Zealand was Team India’s opening partnership. There was a brilliant partnership of 212 runs between India’s opening batsman Pratika Rawal and Smriti Mandhana. Both these players of India scored centuries. Pratika scored 122 runs in 134 balls. Whereas Smriti played a brilliant century inning of 109 runs in 95 balls. Both these batsmen hit 23 fours and 6 sixes in this match.
2- Jemima’s return
There was no impact from Jemimah Rodriguez’s bat in this World Cup till now. But Jemima’s comeback was seen in the important match against New Zealand. After Smriti Mandhana was out, Jemima came to bat at number 3. This star player of India played an unbeaten inning of 76 runs in 55 balls. Jemimah hit 11 fours in this stormy innings.
3- Wicket of Sophie Devine
New Zealand team captain Sophie Devine was the biggest problem for the Indian team. Sophie has scored a lot of runs in this World Cup. Sophie Devine has scored 266 runs in 4 innings played in 6 matches at an average of 66.50. To stop New Zealand from chasing the target given by India, it was necessary to dismiss captain Sophie early. Renuka Singh did this work for the Indian team and sent Sophie back to the pavilion at the score of 6 runs.
4- Storm of bowlers in front of New Zealand
In this important match for Team India, after stormy batting, there was also lethal bowling. All the bowlers of the Indian team took wickets. Renuka Singh and Kranti Gaur got 2-2 wickets. Whereas Sneh Rana, Shri Charani, Deepti Sharma and Pratika Rawal got 1 wicket each. India dropped 8 wickets of New Zealand in this match.
5- India got the benefit of DLS Method
Rain created hindrance in this India-New Zealand match. But India also got the benefit of DLS Method. Due to rain, India scored 340 runs at the loss of 3 wickets in 49 overs in this match. In this innings, Indian batsmen hit 36 fours and 6 sixes. After this, due to DLS Method, New Zealand got the target of 325 runs in 44 overs. India did not lose many wickets in this match, due to which New Zealand got the target of 300. New Zealand team could not achieve this huge target and could score only 271 runs while losing 8 wickets. With this, India won the match by 53 runs and secured a place in the semi-finals.
Will Team India win the World Cup 2025?
The Indian team is now just two steps away from winning the World Cup trophy. Team India has one match left with Bangladesh in the league stage itself, but even after winning this match, India will remain fourth in the points table. Now Team India is yet to win the semi-finals and final to win the World Cup trophy.
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