Every player who starts playing cricket dreams of winning the World Cup once in their lifetime. After failing on quite a few occasions and coming twice close to lifting the World Cup once in 2005 and then in 2017, the India Women’s team has finally won the ICC Women’s World Cup 2025. The dream is complete. Let us have a look at how India Women’s Dream became a reality of winning the ICC Women’s World Cup 2025.
After defeating the Australian women’s team in the semi-final, who were the record 7th time winners, India Women got a place in the final. The South African Women were the opponents in the final. DY Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai was the venue. It was the 2nd of November, and every Indian fan will now remember this date for their lifetime.
How India Women’s Dream became a reality of winning the ICC Women’s World Cup 2025
Certainly, the fans had to wait for two more hours after the regular start time of the match as rain had its say. Basically, the South African Women’s team captain, Laura Wolvaardt, decided that the India Women’s team would bat first. India’s Women’s openers, Smriti Mandhana and Shafali Verma, added 104 for the first wicket. Shafali scored 87 runs for the Indian team before Ayabonga Khaka got her wicket.
Jemimah Rodrigues played a small cameo of 24 runs. Captain Harmanpreet Kaur and Deepti Sharma added 52 for the 4th wicket. It was Deepti Sharma’s fifty and a quick 34 runs in 24 balls from Richa Gosh that helped India Women’s reach a total of 298/7 in 50 overs. At one moment, it looked like India was 25 runs to 30 runs short.
The South Africa team had a great start to their innings. It was just one player, Laura Wolvaardt, who was the captain, who did not let any Indian bowler settle. Shafali did her job with the bat, but Harman gave her the bowling as well. She picked up two wickets. Annerie Dercksen and Laura Wolvaardt looked very comfortable, but Deepti Sharma broke the partnership.
Certainly, the match turned when Amanjyot took the South African captain’s catch. Every player believed we would not let the match slip away from here. India needed one wicket to win. Deepti was bowling, and Harmanpreet completed a running catch. India won the match by 52 runs and had their hands on the first-ever ICC Women’s World Cup. Deepti Sharma took a fifer as he won the Player of the tournament award, whereas Shafali Varma was the Player of the match in the final.
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