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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India started the Women’s World Cup 2025 with a win, defeating Sri Lanka in the first match and Pakistan in the second. But after this Harmanpreet Kaur and team yearned for victory, first South Africa then Australia and on Sunday England defeated Team India. All three teams that have defeated India have confirmed their place in the World Cup semi-finals. Now only 1 team has qualified, so what does Team India need for that? Know.

How can Team India reach the semi-finals?

Even after the defeat against England, the path to the semi-finals is not closed for the Indian team. But now it will be fight or die. India has played 5 matches, the team has 4 points with 2 wins and 3 losses and is at fourth position in the points table. New Zealand also has 4 points, although its net run rate is less than India. India is not dependent on the other team right now, it still has 2 matches left.

India’s next 2 matches are with New Zealand and Bangladesh, Bangladesh is not that big a problem but New Zealand is a strong team and Team India will have to give its all to defeat them. By winning both these matches, India will confirm its place in the semi-finals.

What if Team India loses 1 match?

But then the question arises that what will happen if India loses 1 out of 2 matches. If India loses one match then it will have to depend on the performance of New Zealand, along with which it will have to win one of its matches by a big margin.

• 23 October- vs new zealand
• 26 October- vs bangladesh

If India loses to New Zealand then India will have only 4 points and New Zealand will have 6 points. New Zealand’s last match is against England, if New Zealand wins that match then it will get the semi-final ticket and India will be out whereas if New Zealand loses that match and India wins its next match then the decision will be taken on the basis of net run rate.