Sneh Rana, Pratika Rawal and Renuka Singh Thakur, who were part of the ICC Women’s ODI World Cup 2025 winning team, have been appointed as OSD (Officer On Special Duty) in the Sports Department. Under the captaincy of Harmanpreet Kaur, Team India defeated South Africa by 52 runs in the final. However, Pratika Raval could not play in the semi-finals and final because she was injured in the last match of the league stage.

Pratika Rawal was a senior clerk in Northern Railway. In view of his excellent performance in the World Cup, the Northern Railway Sports Association had written a letter to the Railway Ministry for his promotion. Which was approved by the Railway Ministry. “On behalf of the Ministry of Railways, approval is given to Miss Pratika Rawal, Senior Clerk, Northern Railway for out-of-turn promotion to the Group ‘B’ Gazetted post of ‘Officer on Special Duty (OSD) at Level 8 in the Pay Matrix (7th CPC) for her performance in the ICC Women’s ODI World Cup 2025,” the ministry said.

Pratika Raval was the fourth highest run scorer in the tournament despite not playing the semi-finals and final. He scored 308 runs in 6 innings of 7 matches at a strike rate of 77.78. She was out of the tournament before the semi-finals, Shefali Verma, who came in her place, played a match-winning innings (87) in the final. He also took 2 wickets.

Railway Board promoted Sneh Rana to Group ‘B’ Gazetted post of Officer on Special Duty (Sports) in Level 8 of 7th CPC Pay Matrix. This promotion has been given under the Out-of-Turn Promotion (OTP) scheme. Its purpose is to honor the country’s athletes for their contribution.

Indian women’s team won the first World Cup

The Indian women’s team had reached the finals twice before, but had never won the title. On November 2, 2025, Team India won its first World Cup title by defeating South Africa in the final. Batting first, Team India had scored 298 runs, in reply South Africa was limited to 246 runs. The player of the match of the final was Shefali Verma, who scored 87 runs and took 2 wickets. Deepti Sharma received the award for the best player of the tournament.

India defeated Sri Lanka by 59 runs in the first match of the World Cup. This was the first match of Women’s ODI World Cup 2025 (Womens ODI World Cup 2025), in which the rain also disrupted. Team India had scored 269 runs while playing first, but due to rain, the DLS rules were implemented, due to which Sri Lanka got a target of 271 runs in 47 overs. Chasing this target, the Sri Lankan team was all out for just 211 runs.

For the Indian team, Pratika Rawal scored 37 runs, Harleen Deol scored 48 runs and Deepti Sharma scored a strong half -century of 53 runs. In this innings, Amanjot Kaur and Sneh Rana tied the most. Batting on the eighth order, Kaur played a brilliant innings of 57 runs in 56 balls. At the same time, number-9 batsman Sneh Rana had brought India a small but stormy innings of 28 runs in 15 balls to a big score of 269.

Deepti Sharma’s impressive in the entire match

Deepti Sharma’s all -rounder performance contributed to India’s victory over Sri Lanka. Deepti Sharma came to bat in the first innings when India’s 4 wickets fell for 120 runs. After this, he along with Amanjot Kaur partnered 103 runs. He scored 53 runs in 53 balls. At the same time, when the turn of bowling came, here too, he spread 3 wickets. He took 3 wickets for 54 runs in 9 overs.

Sri Lanka also did not give up till the last overs, whose 6 wickets fell for just 140 runs. After that Neelakshi de Silva scored an innings of 35 runs, but Sneh Rana made him a clean bold. Kulasuriya also stood at the crease for a long time, but could not move her innings by 17 runs.

All the bowlers from India took at least one wicket. Deepti Sharma took 3 wickets, while Sneh Rana and Mr. Charani took two wickets each. Apart from him, Kranti Gaur, Amanjot Kaur and Pratika Rawal took one wicket each.

The Indian women’s cricket team defeated England by 4 wickets in the first ODI. England won the toss and decided to bat first. After a bad start, Sophia Dunkli played a brilliant innings of 83 runs and took the score to 258. Chasing the target, Team India did not start well, but India won by the amazing innings of middle order batsmen Jemima Rodriguez (48) and Deepti Sharma (62*).

Chasing the target of 259 runs, Smriti Mandhana and Pratika Rawal shared a 48 -run partnership for the first wicket, as Mandhana (28), Team India received his first blow. After this, the copy returned to the pavilion after scoring 36 runs. The pressure on Team India was increased due to the cheap dismissal of Harleen Deol (27) and Harmanpreet Kaur (17).

Deepti Sharma became the player of the match

After falling 4 wickets for 124 runs, Team India had increased, but then Deepti Sharma shared a 90 -run partnership with Jemima Rodriguez for the fifth wicket. Jemima scored 48 runs in 54 balls with the help of 5 fours. After this, the fifth shock as Richa Ghosh (10) was on a score of 229.

Deepti Sharma scored an unbeaten 62 in 64 balls with the help of 1 six and 3 fours, in the end Amanjot Kaur scored 20 runs in 14 balls and India won by 4 wickets with 10 balls remaining. India has taken a 1-0 lead in the 3-match series.

A cracker of a chase from #Teamindia To win the Odie Series Opener by 4 Wickets!

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– Bcci Women (@BcciWomen) July 16, 2025

Earlier, after winning the toss, the 4 wickets of the England team, batting first, fell on 97 runs, then it seemed that England would reach only by 160-170. But middle order batsmen Sophia Dunkli (83) and Ellis Davidson-Richards (53) played half-century innings and brought England to a score of 258.

Sneh Rana and Kranti Gaur took 2-2 wickets for India. Amanjot Kaur and Nallapurdedi Mr. Charani got 1-1 wickets. Under the captaincy of Harmanpreet Kaur, Team India has taken a 1-0 lead in the series, by winning the second ODI, India would like to take an unbeatable lead on the series. The second ODI will be played on 19 July.

India women vs south Africa women full highlights: Team India has defeated South Africa by performing charismatic. At one time it seemed that the match had gone out of India’s hand, but due to the strong bowling of Sneh Rana, the Indian women’s team won the lost bet.

The Indian women’s team had scored 276 runs for 6 wickets in 50 overs after playing first. For India, Pratika Rawal scored 78, Smriti Mandhana 36, ​​Harleen Deol 29, Harmanpreet Kaur 41, Jemima Rodrigues 41 and Richa Ghosh scored 24 runs. In response, the South African women’s team once scored 140 runs without losing any wickets. From here, he had to score only 137 runs. But the Indian team won the match by 15 runs while performing charismatic.

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