Jemimah Rodrigues, who played an important role in India’s victory, is in the news for her statement after the match. After his statement, an old controversy has gained momentum. In the semi-finals of the ICC Women’s World Cup 2025, Jemimah played an unbeaten inning of 127 runs to help India win while chasing the huge target of 339 runs. This was the biggest successful run chase in women’s ODI history. In the interview after the match, he said something about his faith.

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This innings of Jemima has registered her in the pages of history. She became the first Indian player (in both men’s and women’s) to score a century during the run chase in a World Cup knockout. After the match, when she reached the post match presentation, she talked about her confidence and faith. She said, “In the end I was just remembering what the Bible says, ‘Stand quietly and God will fight for me.'”

Old controversy again in headlines

After this statement of Jemima, an old controversy has come into discussion again. This matter is of October 2024, when Mumbai’s prestigious Khar Gymkhana Club had canceled the honorary membership of Jemima. The reason was the allegations against his father Iván Rodrigues of organizing unauthorized religious meetings on the club premises.

According to reports, this matter was raised in the annual general meeting of the club. At the meeting, several members complained that Ivan Rodriguez had organized religious programs about 35 times in 18 months under the banner of Brother Manuel Ministries. As per club rules, no religious or political program is allowed on the premises.

Ivan Rodrigues gave clarification

Jemima’s father Ivon Rodriguez later issued a detailed statement on social media saying that whatever prayer meetings she held were in the full knowledge of the club officials. He wrote, “We had organized prayer meetings on a few occasions during a year from April 2023, but all this happened with the knowledge of the club. The talk of any kind of conversion in these meetings is completely false and baseless.”

He further said, “When we were asked to stop the meetings, we immediately accepted the club’s decision. We had paid all the outstanding fees. We are honest people. We follow the law completely, but it is unfortunate that false news is being spread in the media. We just wish well for everyone.”

IND W vs AUS W: History was made on Tuesday night at DY Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai. Indian women’s team has made it to the World Cup final by defeating seven-time champion Australia. Happiness was seen everywhere on the field. When Amanjot Kaur hit a four in 48.3 overs and gave India victory, the entire team became emotional. The real story of this historic victory was written by Jemimah Rodriguez and Harmanpreet Kaur, who had tears of joy flowing from their eyes after the victory.

Jemima Rodriguez became emotional

Jemimah Rodriguez, who played an unbeaten inning of 127 runs with 17 fours, burst into tears when India secured a place in the final. All the players sitting in the dugout had their eyes on him.

When Jemima completed her century during her innings, she did not celebrate. She knew that “work still remains.” This maturity makes him different from other batsmen. When the camera turned towards her after the victory, Jemima had tears in her eyes.

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Even Harmanpreet could not stop her tears

Indian captain Harmanpreet Kaur also could not control herself in the emotional moment of this victory. When he hugged Jemima after playing a brilliant inning of 89 runs in 88 balls, both of them had moist eyes. This was the third consecutive knockout match for Harman, in which he scored a half-century. As captain, he took the team out of difficult situations and led it to victory with confidence.

Australia’s pride broken by historic partnership

While India was chasing the huge target of 339 runs, Harman and Jemima made a historic partnership of 167 runs for the third wicket. This partnership is considered to be one of the best in the history of Indian women’s cricket. At the same time, luck was also with India, Australian fielders dropped two easy catches, which completely changed the course of the match.

When Amanjot hit the winning four, the entire stadium echoed with slogans of ‘India-India’. On the field, Indian players hugged each other and cried bitterly and the spectators became witnesses of this historic victory.

South Africa women’s cricket team captain Laura Wolvaardt played a memorable inning of 169 runs in the World Cup semi-final against England. In this match held at ACA Stadium, England won the toss and decided to bowl first. Wolvaardt made a century partnership (116) for the first wicket with Tazmin Brits, the captain did not stop even after Brits was out. She was out on the last ball of the 48th over.

Laura Wolvaardt scored the 10th century of her ODI career, this was her first century in the World Cup. Wolvaardt scored 169 runs in 143 balls in the semi-final against England. In this innings played with a strike of more than 118, he hit 4 sixes and 20 fours. That means he scored 104 runs (80 runs from fours and 24 runs from sixes) from boundaries.

Laura Wolvaardt equals Mithali Raj

It was only when Wolvaardt completed 50 runs that she equaled Mithali Raj in a big record. For the 13th time, Wolvaardt played an inning of more than 50 runs in the ODI World Cup. Earlier, Mithali Raj was the one to score the most number of innings of more than 50 runs in the ODI World Cup, she also did this 13 times.

The first South African batsman to do so

In this memorable inning of 169 runs, Laura Wolvaardt also completed 5000 runs of her ODI career. She is the first South African woman player to score 5000 runs in ODIs.

In the first semi-final of the Women’s World Cup 2025, South Africa, batting first, set a target of 319 runs for England to win. Chloe Tryon (33) and Marijne Kapp (42) also played good innings. Kapp also did wonders in bowling, he gave a great start to South Africa by taking 2 wickets in the very first over of the semi-final.

England’s wicket-keeper batsman Amy Jones was out on the second ball of the first over. After this, Heather Knight, who came at number three, also became the victim of Marijne Kapp, both the batsmen could not open the account. England lost its third wicket on the very first ball of the second over. England’s top 3 batsmen were out for just 1 run.