India won the ICC Women’s World Cup 2025. India defeated South Africa. Everyone is very happy with this victory. Cricketer Smriti Mandhana’s boyfriend Palash Muchhal has shared Smriti and trophy photo on social media and expressed his happiness.

Palash shared two photos

Palash has shared two posts. In one post, he is seen posing with Smriti. Smriti is holding the trophy. Both are looking very happy. He wrote in the caption- I am still dreaming. In the second photo, Palash is seen holding the trophy in his hand. Whereas Smriti is seen spreading her arms with a big smile. It was written in the caption of the photo – We Indians are at the forefront. A tattoo on Palash’s hand seen in the photo has also come into the spotlight.

Palash has written SM18 in this tattoo. Let us tell you that SM stands for Smriti Mandhana and 18 stands for Smriti’s date of birth.

Let us tell you that Smriti Mandhana and Palash Muchhal are dating each other since 2019. They made their relationship public through an Instagram post in July 2024.

Palak Muchhal also reacted

Smriti’s future sister-in-law and singer Palak Muchhal has also reacted to this victory. Palak shared a video. In this she is seen hugging Smriti. Palak looked quite emotional. There were tears in his eyes.

In this post he wrote Bada’s caption – What a memorable day it was. I saw history being created before my eyes. Our Indian women lifted the trophy. This is beyond words. Pride, tears and goosebumps. You guys have not only won the trophy but also won the hearts of crores of people. You guys wrote destiny with grace, courage, and confidence. Tonight you guys played for the dreams of everyone who was told you couldn’t. Saw Smriti, saw her hard work, determination, faith. Seeing his journey from so close makes it feel very personal.

The Indian team has won the 2025 Women’s ODI World Cup. Team India won the World Cup title for the first time. In the final, Harmanpreet Kaur’s team India defeated South Africa by 52 runs. Shefal Verma played the most important role in this victory of India. Shefali performed brilliantly with both bat and ball in the title match. But do you know that Shefali Verma was not a part of Team India in this World Cup. She was neither in the World Cup squad nor among the reserve players.

Yes, Shefali Verma, who performed brilliantly in the final, was not included in the first World Cup squad. The selectors dropped him from the team due to lack of consistency in his performance. Even in the list of reserve players, Shefali did not get a place.

Got a place in the team as a replacement for Pratika Raval

Shefali Verma’s luck brightened when Pratika Rawal got injured. Pratika Rawal got injured while fielding in the match against Bangladesh. His leg was twisted. For this reason, she was dropped from the knockout matches of the World Cup and Shefali Verma was included in the team as her replacement. In this way, Shefali Verma returned to the Indian ODI team after more than a year. Earlier in the semi-finals, Shefali was out after scoring only 10 runs, but in the finals she stole the show.

India alone won the World Cup title

In the final match, Shefali Verma played a stormy innings of 87 runs in just 78 balls with the bat. During this, 7 fours and 2 sixes came from his bat. After this he took two wickets in bowling. Shefali first dismissed Sune Luus and then sent Marijane Kapp to the pavilion. Due to this explosive performance of Shefali, she got the title of Player of the Match.

India has won the ODI World Cup for the first time by defeating South Africa by 52 runs. DY Patil Stadium of Navi Mumbai became witness to this historic moment. After 2005 and 2017, this Indian team was playing the third World Cup final, finally Team India won the cup under the captaincy of Harmanpreet Kaur. For this historic victory, the Indian team has received a record prize money of approximately Rs 42 crore. A prize pool of approximately Rs 123 crore was prepared for the Women’s World Cup.

How much prize money does the World Cup winner get?

The Indian cricket team has received prize money of approximately Rs 42 crore for becoming the champion of the World Cup 2025. This amount is more than the prize money received by 2023 Men’s World Cup winner Australia. Apart from this, BCCI has already announced to give a prize money of Rs 125 crore to Team India if it becomes the winner. Australia had received prize money of about Rs 33 crore at that time. But an amount of Rs 42 crore was given to the Indian women’s cricket team. The runner-up South African team has received prize money of about Rs 20 crore.

Money has also been showered on the teams going to the semi-finals, i.e. Australia and England. Both the teams have received Rs 11.95 crore. No team returned home empty-handed, because a lot of money was showered on the teams that were eliminated in the league stage itself.

The teams ranked fifth (Sri Lanka) and sixth (New Zealand) in the table have received Rs 7.8 crore each. Whereas Pakistan, ranked seventh (Bangladesh) and eighth, both got Rs 4.5 crore.

• Champion (India) – 42 crores
• Runner-up (South Africa) – 20 crores
• Third place (Australia) 11.95 crores
• Fourth place (England) – 11.95 crores
• Fifth place (Sri Lanka) – 7.8 crores
• 6th place (New Zealand) – 7.8 crores
• Seventh place (Bangladesh) – 4.5 crores
• Eighth place (Pakistan) – 4.5 crores

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In the World Cup final, the Indian team, playing first, scored 298 runs. This is the second highest score made by any team in the Women’s ODI World Cup final. Shefali Verma played an inning of 87 runs and Deepti Sharma played an inning of 58 runs. South Africa is playing the World Cup final for the first time, after which there is such a batting line-up which can achieve this record target. Meanwhile, let us know how many runs have been the biggest successful run chase so far in the World Cup.

Biggest run chase in World Cup final

The biggest run chase in the Women’s ODI World Cup final took place in the year 2009. In the 2009 final, England successfully achieved the target of 167 runs against New Zealand. In that match, New Zealand was all out for just 166 runs while playing first. In response, England achieved this target with 4 wickets remaining.

The second most successful run chase in a World Cup final came in 1997. That year, Australia won the trophy by achieving the target of 165 runs in the title clash against New Zealand.

• 167 runs – England (vs New Zealand)
• 165 runs – Australia (vs New Zealand)
• 152 runs – Australia (vs England)
• 129 runs – Australia (vs England)

Unique record in the name of India

Earlier, he scored 298 runs in the final of 2025 World Cup. This is the second highest total made by any team in Women’s ODI World Cup history. Australia holds the record for scoring the most runs in the final. Australia had scored 356 runs against England in the 2022 final. They are also the only team to score 300 or more runs in the final. In this list, the Indian team has come second with 298 runs.

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Rain has interfered in the final match between India and South Africa. The final match of the Women’s World Cup will be played at DY Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai. India entered the finals by defeating Australia in the semi-finals and South Africa defeated England in the semi-finals. The toss of the India-South Africa final match was also delayed. The biggest question is that if the match could not be played today due to rain, then who will be declared the winner?

What are the rules when it rains?

If the final match cannot be held today due to rain, then November 3 has been kept as reserve day. But today an effort will be made to conduct at least 20-20 overs matches. The cut-off time of the 20-20 overs match will be 9:08 pm. If the rain stops by 9.08 pm then a 20-20 overs match is possible.

If it rains again after the start of the 20-20 overs match, the match will not be continued. In that case reserve day will be used. The priority will be to bring the result of the final match today itself. If the match cannot start then the match will be played tomorrow on Reserve Day.

What if it rains even on the reserve day?

If the final match cannot be started or completed even on 3rd November, i.e. Reserve Day, due to rain or any other reason, then both the teams will be declared joint winners. This has never happened in the history of the Women’s World Cup, when any two teams have been declared joint winners.

Till now only Australia, England and New Zealand have been able to win the Women’s World Cup trophy. Before this, Team India reached the finals twice, but could never become champion. On the other hand, South Africa has reached the final for the first time in 2025.

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

India or South Africa, on November 2 one of these teams will be called the new world champion. Everyone’s eyes will be on famous players like Smriti Mandhana to Jemimah Rodrigues and Laura Woolworth. In ODI cricket, the women’s teams of India and South Africa have come face to face 33 times till date, out of which Team India has won 20 times. Paper records are in favor of India, but you will be shocked to see the statistics of mutual battles between the players. Talking about Rodrigues, South Africa’s Marizanne Kapp has dominated her.

How far ahead are the Indian batsmen in the mutual battle?

First of all, if we talk about Smriti Mandhana, in the ODI against Marijne Kapp, she has scored 72 runs playing 116 balls, but during this period, Kapp has also dismissed her 3 times. Mandhana’s record against Malaba is not very good. Malaba scored 67 runs in 81 balls, but was also out 3 times.

Captain Harmanpreet had scored 89 runs against Australia in the semi-finals. But against South Africa’s Cap, he lost his wicket four times after playing 80 balls. Jemimah Rodrigues’s record against Kapp is worst at best. Against them, Jemima could score only four runs in 14 balls and was out twice. She is coming after playing an unbeaten inning of 127 runs in the semi-finals.

Condition of Indian bowlers, against South Africa batting

Woolworth will be the biggest threat to the Indian team in the final. Deepti Sharma has taken 17 wickets in the current World Cup, but Woolworth has been dominating her. Deepti has scored 95 runs on 173 balls. Deepti has been able to get him out only 3 times. Whereas Deepti has dismissed Tajmin Brits once. Brits scored 27 runs on 38 balls of Deepti.

Marijne Kapp has been batting brilliantly against Deepti. He has scored 107 runs on 130 balls of Deepti. However, the Indian all-rounder has also dismissed Kapp three times. Shri Charani has taken 13 wickets in this World Cup, which has outweighed Sinalo Jafta. He has dismissed Jafta twice in 9 balls.

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2 November 2025, this date can write a new chapter in Indian cricket. On this day, India and South Africa will face each other in the final of the Women’s World Cup 2025. No matter who becomes the winner, this time women’s ODI cricket is going to get a new champion, because India and South Africa have never won the World Cup trophy. Both the teams are in great rhythm. In such a situation, before the final, know about those 3 shortcomings, if Team India overcomes them then it will be almost certain that it will become the champion.

1. Shefali Verma will have to walk

Before the semi-final match, Pratika Rawal was opening with Smriti Mandhana. Unfortunately, Pratika is out of the tournament due to injury, Shefali Verma has been brought as her replacement. Verma is known for her explosive batting, but she will have to compensate for Pratika Raval, who had scored 308 runs at an average of 51.33 in the tournament before the injury. With the opening partnership between Shefali and Smriti Mandhana, the Indian team will be able to lay the foundation of a big score.

2. Fielding needs to be better

In the second semi-final, the Indian team dropped many catches and wicketkeeper Richa Ghosh also missed an easy stumping. The result of poor fielding was that in the semi-finals, Indian fielders missed 2 catches, missed one stumping and gave away 8 runs through overthrow. In the final, the Indian team will have to improve its fielding against South Africa.

3. It is necessary to get Laura Woolworth out early.

Laura Woolworth is the real run machine of the South African team. In the current World Cup, she has scored 470 runs in 8 matches, which is the highest. Woolworth had also played an inning of 70 runs against India in the league stage match. Woolworth has been the leading run-scorer for South Africa in the last 3 ICC tournaments. By dismissing Woolworth, Team India’s chances of winning the final will double.

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The final of the 2025 Women’s ODI World Cup will be played between India and South Africa in Navi Mumbai on Sunday. The South African team has reached the final of the Women’s ODI World Cup for the first time, while Team India will play the title match for the third time. Both the teams have not won the World Cup title yet. The Indian women’s cricket team under the captaincy of Harmanpreet Kaur is one win away from creating history in the ODI World Cup and in such a situation, there is tremendous excitement among the fans about this match, but they are facing disappointment due to not getting tickets.

After the performance of the Indian team in the semi-finals, a crowd of fans can be seen outside the DY Patil Stadium for tickets for the final. To attract spectators to the stadium, the ticket price started at just Rs 100, but till Saturday afternoon, tickets were not available for spectators in the stadium.

Pandian Parimal of Thane district told that he had come to the stadium in the morning but no one is getting tickets here. He said, “I have come here since 9 in the morning, but there is a lot of crowd here and no one is getting tickets. Tickets are not available even through online medium. A large number of people have come here.”

Another fan Shiftain Iftar said that he has been coming here for two days for tickets, but did not get any response here. We were told yesterday (Friday) that tickets will start being available from 12 noon today, but after reaching here in the morning, it is already afternoon, but no information is available about the tickets.

Female fans were also seen waiting outside the stadium to buy tickets. Fan Kishori Dholpuriya, who came from Mumbai, alleged black marketing of tickets and said, we are not being given any information here. We are standing here in the sun and rain, but despite trying for three days, we are unable to find any trace of the ticket.

Local fan Aanchal said that we were told a day ago that the gates for tickets would be opened from 12 noon today, but even after a lot of time has passed, nothing is known. He said that if the tickets are sold out then they should be told that tickets are not available.

When an attempt was made to talk to the stadium managers to know the status of ticket availability, no clear answer was received from them either. Lavanya, a Class 9 student, also made a similar complaint and said that she wants to see the team win the trophy, but is unable to get tickets. (Input in this story has been taken from news agency PTI)

India has made it to the final of the World Cup by defeating Australia by 5 wickets. Now the Indian team will face South Africa in the final on November 2. This is the biggest run chase in Women’s World Cup history. Australia, playing first in the semi-final match, had scored a huge score of 338 runs. Thanks to Jemimah Rodriguez’s unbeaten 127 runs and Harmanpreet Kaur’s 89 runs, the Indian team achieved the target with 9 balls remaining.

This is the second time in Women’s World Cup history that India has defeated Australia in the semi-final match. Earlier in the 2017 World Cup, the Indian team had defeated Australia by 36 runs. Defending champion Australia’s dream of becoming world champion for the eighth time remains unfulfilled.

India made world record

This is the highest score chased by any team in Women’s World Cup history. Earlier, the record of the biggest successful run chase was in the name of Australia, which had chased the target of 331 runs against India in the same World Cup. Also, this is only the second time in the World Cup when a team has chased a target of more than 300.

• 339 runs- India (vs Australia)
• 331 runs- Australia (vs India)
• 278 runs – Australia (vs India)
• 275 runs – South Africa (vs India)

Amazing work of Rodriguez-Harmanpreet

While chasing the target of 339 runs, India lost the wickets of Smriti Mandhana (24 runs) and Shefali Verma (10 runs) till the score of 59 runs. After this, Jemimah Rodriguez and Harmanpreet Kaur together made a historic partnership of 167 runs and brought India closer to victory. During this period, Harmanpreet and Rodriguez also got life support several times.

Harmanpreet got out on the score of 89 in the 36th over while trying to play a big shot. From here Rodriguez took the entire responsibility on his shoulders. First she added 38 runs with Deepti Sharma, then made a small but very important partnership of 46 runs with Richa Ghosh. Especially Richa Ghosh’s cameo inning of 26 runs played at a strike rate of 162 contributed a lot in bringing India closer to victory.

Australia’s experienced bowling disintegrated under pressure in the final overs. Meanwhile, catches were also missed by the fielders. Rodriguez returned unbeaten after scoring 127 runs, but the winning shot was hit by Amanjot Kaur, who returned unbeaten after scoring 15 runs in 8 balls.

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