ICC Women’s World Cup 2025 Final: The final of the ICC Women’s ODI World Cup 2025 is being played between India and South Africa today i.e. on 2 November 2025 at DY Patil Sports Academy, Navi Mumbai. Team India’s star opener Shefali Verma may have missed scoring her century in the final, but she has made a historic record in her name. By playing a brilliant inning of 87 runs, Shefali has made the highest score by an Indian batsman in the Women’s ODI World Cup final. However, Shefali could not achieve the record of becoming the first Indian cricketer to score a century in the final.

Shefali missed a century in the final

Indian team’s explosive opening batsman Shefali Verma played a brilliant inning of 87 runs with the help of 7 fours and 2 sixes in the final match of the World Cup against South Africa. Shefali gave a strong start to Team India and along with Smriti Mandhana made an excellent partnership of 104 runs for the first wicket. Shefali had put South Africa under pressure with her aggressive batting, only then she was caught by Sune Luus on the ball of Ayabong Khaka.

Smriti missed a half century in the final

Star opener Smriti Mandhana missed her 35th half-century in the final match of the Women’s World Cup. He gave a strong start to Team India with his batting and scored an inning of 45 runs in 58 balls with the help of 8 fours. Smriti was caught out by wicketkeeper Sinalo Jafta on the ball of Chloe Tryon in the 17th over.

Playing-11 of India and South Africa in the final

India: Shefali Verma, Smriti Mandhana, Jemimah Rodrigues, Harmanpreet Kaur (captain), Deepti Sharma, Richa Ghosh (wicketkeeper), Amanjot Kaur, Radha Yadav, Kranti Gaur, Sri Charani, Renuka Singh Thakur.

South Africa: Laura Wolvaardt (capt), Tajmin Brits, Anneke Bosch, Sune Luus, Marijanne Kapp, Sinalo Jafta (wk), Annery Dirksen, Chloe Trion, Nadine de Klerk, Ayabonga Khaka, Nonkululeko Mlaba

Most Sixes For ICC Women’s World Cup 2025: The final of the ICC Women’s ODI World Cup 2025 will be held today i.e. on 2 November 2025 between India and South Africa. This final match will be played at DY Patil Sports Academy, Navi Mumbai. Team India will take the field with the intention of winning its first title. All eyes will be on star batsman Smriti Mandhana. Because Mandhana has performed brilliantly with her bat throughout the World Cup and is also the third batsman to hit the most number of sixes in this tournament. Here we are going to tell you who are the 7 batsmen who hit the most sixes in the 2025 Women’s ODI World Cup?

7 batsmen who hit the most sixes in the 2025 Women’s ODI World Cup

1. Nadine de Klerk (South Africa) – 10 sixes

South African all-rounder Nadine de Klerk is at number one in the list of top-7 batsmen who have hit the most sixes in the 2025 Women’s ODI World Cup. Nadine scored 190 runs in 8 matches at an average of 63.33 and also hit 10 skyscraper sixes.

2. Richa Ghosh (India) – 10 sixes

Team India’s wicketkeeper batsman Richa Ghosh is at second place in the list of batsmen who have hit the most sixes in the 2025 Women’s ODI World Cup. Richa has scored 201 runs in 7 matches at a strike rate of 132.23, in which she has also hit 10 sixes.

3. Smriti Mandhana (India) – 9 sixes

Indian team’s star opener Smriti Mandhana is at third place in the list of batsmen who have hit the most sixes in the 2025 Women’s ODI World Cup. Smriti scored 389 runs in 8 matches at an average of 55.57 and also hit 9 sixes.

4. Phoebe Lichfield (Australia) – 7 sixes

Australian batsman Phoebe Litchfield is at fourth place in the list of batsmen who have hit the most sixes in the 2025 Women’s ODI World Cup. Lichfield has scored 304 runs in 7 matches at an average of 50.66, in which he has hit 7 sixes.

5. Ashley Gardner (Australia) – 6 sixes

Australian all-rounder Ashley Gardner is at fifth place in the list of batsmen who have hit most sixes in the 2025 Women’s ODI World Cup. Gardner scored 328 runs in 7 matches at an average of 82.00 and also hit 6 sixes.

6. Marizanne Kapp (South Africa) – 6 sixes

South African all-rounder Marizanne Kapp is at sixth place in the list of batsmen who have hit the most sixes in the 2025 Women’s ODI World Cup. Kaap has scored 204 runs in 8 matches at a strike rate of 103.55, in which he has hit 6 sixes.

7. Laura Wolvaardt (South Africa) – 6 sixes

South African captain Laura Wolvaardt is at seventh place in the list of batsmen who have hit the most sixes in the 2025 Women’s ODI World Cup. Wolvaardt scored 470 runs in 8 matches at an average of 67.14 and also hit 6 sixes.

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.