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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Smriti Mandhana has become the fastest batsman to score 5,000 runs in ODI cricket. She achieved this feat in the 13th match of the 2025 Women’s World Cup, in which India and Australia clashed. In this match, Smriti Mandhana played a half-century inning of 80 runs and made an opening partnership of 155 runs with Pratika Rawal. In fact, Mandhana has now gone ahead of Virat Kohli and Viv Richards in terms of scoring the fastest runs in ODI cricket. The Indian team scored 330 runs in the first innings.

Virat and Viv overtake Richards

Virat Kohli and Vivian Richards took 114 innings to complete 5,000 runs in ODI cricket. But Smriti Mandhana has completed five thousand runs in the 112th inning of her ODI career. With this, Mandhana has completed the fastest 5,000 runs in women’s ODI cricket. Before her, this record was in the name of West Indies’ legendary batsman Stafanie Taylor, who took 129 innings to score so many runs.

If we combine the statistics of men’s and women’s cricket, then Smriti Mandhana has come at the third position in terms of being the fastest to complete 5 thousand runs. In this matter, only Babar Azam (97 innings) and Hashim Amla (101 innings) are above him. Mandhana has come at number-3 in this list with 112 innings.

Smriti Mandhana created history

Smriti Mandhana has become the first female cricketer in the world to complete 1,000 ODI runs in a calendar year. He has also achieved this record in the World Cup match against Australia. Australia’s Belinda Clark is at second place in this matter, who had scored 970 runs in the year 1997. Mandhana has scored 4 ODI centuries this year and is the female cricketer who has scored the most ODI runs in 2025.

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Australia won India by 43 runs in the third ODI. With this, the women’s cricket team of Australia has won the three ODI series 2–1. The third ODI was played at Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi, in which the Kangaroo team scored a huge score of 412 runs while playing first. In response, the entire Indian team was all out on the score of 369. Smriti Mandhana played a century of 125 runs in this match for India, but could not ensure her team’s victory.

Team India, who came to chase the target of 413 runs, did not have a good start as opener Pratika Rawal was dismissed for 10 runs. Smriti Mandhana took over one end, but the wickets were falling from the other end. Harleen Deol was also dismissed for 11 runs. Captain Harmanpreet Kaur scored 52 runs and partnered 121 runs with Mandhana.

Deepti Sharma scored 72 runs, but only after her wicket fell, Team India’s defeat was certain. Number 9 batsman Sneh Rana also kept the expectation of the Indian team’s victory during the innings of 35 runs, but could not even win his team.

781 runs scored in the match, 111 boundary

A total of 781 runs were scored in India vs Australia match. Both teams hit 99 fours and 12 sixes in total. That is, a total of 111 boundaries were installed in the match. The first Australian team hit 60 fours and 5 sixes. After that, Team India also hit 39 fours and 7 sixes while batting. In this way, the batsmen of both the teams together made a dilemma by putting 111 boundaries.

In this match, Smriti Mandhana has become the fastest century player for India by mixing in ODI and women in ODI cricket. He broke the record of a century in 52 balls of Virat Kohli by completing a century in 50 balls. This was the 13th century of Mandhana’s ODI career.

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In the third ODI, Australia’s women’s cricket team has scored 412 runs. The Australian team was all out 13 balls already, yet it managed to reach beyond 400. This women has scored the biggest score against India in ODI cricket. At the same time, this overall is the sixth biggest score in women’s ODI cricket. Beth Muni scored 138 runs in a stormy style. Apart from him, 2 other batsmen also hit Pachasa.

This is a decisive match of the three ODI series. So far, both teams are on par with each one in the series. In this match, Australian batsmen hit 60 fours and 5 sixes. The team scored 270 runs from the boundary itself. Georgia Wall scored 81 runs and Alice Perry also scored 68 runs.

400+ runs against India for the first time

So far no team against India in women’s ODI cricket had touched 400 runs. Earlier, Australia scored the highest score against the Indian women’s cricket team, which scored 371 runs in 2024. Australia won that match by a huge margin of 122 runs. Now Australia has scored 412 runs against Team India by improving their own record. It is an interesting fact that Australia has scored the 4 biggest scores in ODIs against the Indian women’s cricket team.

• 412 runs – Australia
• 371 runs – Australia
• 338 runs – Australia
• 332 runs – Australia
• 321 runs – South Africa

Indian bowlers fiercely beaten

India’s most successful bowler was Arundhati Reddy, who took 3 wickets, but also looted 86 runs. Renuka Thakur and Deepti Sharma took two wickets each. At the same time, Kranti Gaur and Sneh Rana took one wicket each. Except Sneh Rana and Deepti Sharma, all Indian bowlers scored runs at more than 8 economy rates.

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