India’s Jemimah Rodrigues reacts after profitable within the ICC Ladies’s World Cup semifinal ODI cricket match between India Ladies and Australia Ladies, on the DY Patil Stadium, in Navi Mumbai, Thursday, Oct. 30, 2025.
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India’s ladies’s cricket staff has stormed into the ICC Ladies’s World Cup 2025 last, defeating the defending champions, Australia, by 5 wickets in an exciting semifinal match. Jemimah Rodrigues and Harmanpreet Kaur have been the celebs of the match, forming an important partnership that helped India chase down a large goal of 339 runs, the highest-ever run chase in ladies’s ODI cricket.
India efficiently chased down 338/10 from Australia, with 9 balls to spare, setting a brand new file for the very best profitable run chase in Ladies’s World Cup historical past.
Rodrigues performed an unbeaten knock of 127 runs off 134 deliveries, together with 14 boundaries. Harmanpreet Kaur scored 89 runs off 88 balls, together with 10 boundaries and two sixes, and shared a 167-run partnership with Rodrigues.
A mesmerising century by Jemimah Rodrigues and her record-breaking partnership with skipper Harmanpreet Kaur helped India safe a spot within the ICC Ladies’s World Cup conflict in opposition to South Africa, beating Australia by 5 wickets in a nail-biting semifinal conflict at DY Patil in Navi Mumbai on Thursday.
A wonderful century from Phoebe Litchfield (119 in 93 balls, with 17 fours and three sixes) was the crowning jewel of Australia’s innings as they posted a large 338 runs. Nonetheless, a 167-run stand between Jemimah Rodrigues (127* in 134 balls, with 14 boundaries) and Harmanpreet Kaur (89 in 88 balls, with 10 fours and two sixes) helped India overcome an early hunch.
Cameos from Richa Ghosh (26* in 16 balls, with two fours and two sixes) and Amanjot Kaur (15* in eight balls, with two fours) helped India chase down the highest-ever goal in ladies’s ODI historical past.
With India and South Africa within the last, the world will get to witness a first-time champion both manner on November 2.After Australia elected to bat first at Navi Mumbai’s DY Patil Stadium, Litchfield, together with an skilled Ellyse Perry, helped the Aussies overcome the early lack of captain Alyssa Healy, smashing 119 in 93 balls, with 17 fours and three sixes. Her runs got here at a strike charge of 127.95.Litchfield had a 155-run stand with Perry (77 in 88 balls, with six fours and two sixes), which laid down a strong platform for the Aussies at 180/2 when Amanjot Kaur (1/51) rattled the centurion’s stumps. Shree Charani (2/49) and Radha Yadav (1/66) diminished Australia to 265/6, regardless of Perry’s half-century, in 41.4 overs.
Nonetheless, a stand of 66 runs between Gardner (63 in 45 balls, with 4 boundaries and 4 sixes) and Kim Garth (17) took the Aussies previous the 300-run mark. Within the last few overs, the Aussies went from 331/7 to 338 all out, setting India a mammoth 339 runs to win. Litchfield’s knock made her the youngest to attain a Ladies’s World Cup knockout century.
She continued her golden run in opposition to India, having scored 627 runs in opposition to them in 9 innings at a mean of 69.66, with two centuries, 4 fifties and a finest rating of 119. She has by no means been dismissed for under 25 by India in ladies’s ODIs.
She joined the corporate of skipper Healy (170 in opposition to England within the 2022 WC last and 129 in opposition to WI within the 2022 semifinal) and Karen Rolton (107* in opposition to India within the 2005 version last) because the third Aussie to attain a century in a 50-over World Cup knockout match.
Throughout the run-chase of 339 runs, the Aussies bought simply what they wished. They prevented Shafali Verma (10 in 4 balls, with two fours) from making an impression, lowering India to 13/1, with Kim Garth drawing the primary blood. Jemimah Rodrigues joined Smriti Mandhana on the crease and each saved the tempo up, taking the staff to the 50-run mark in 8.2 overs. Garth struck gold, eradicating a red-hot Smriti for a run-a-ball 24 (with two fours and a six), with the batter giving a faint nick to Alyssa Healy behind the stumps. India was 59/2 in 9.2 overs, with their most in-form batter out. Skipper
Harmanpreet Kaur began sluggish, with Jemimah amassing boundaries on the different finish, serving to India attain the 100-run mark in 17 overs. The duo introduced a fifty-run stand in simply 53 balls. Rodrigues made probably the most of her promotion up high, reaching the 50-run mark in 57 balls, with eight fours, whereas the skipper anchored from the opposite finish. The duo continued going full blast in opposition to the Aussies, mentioning their 100-run and 150-run partnerships in 99 and 140 balls, respectively.
Kaur additionally continued her scorching streak in 50-over knockouts, registering a half-century in 65 balls. This was her third fifty-plus rating within the third 50-over WC knockout match, sitting simply subsequent to Aussie legend Belinda Clark (with 4 such scores in six innings). India was on the 200-run mark in 31.2 overs.
With every shut name, dropped catch and good-for-nothing enchantment, tensions grew inside the Aussie camp. A poor shot from the skipper ended a 167-run stand between these two was undone by Annabel Sutherland, Australia’s golden arm, with Gardner taking a straightforward catch at deep mid-wicket. Harman was performed for at 89 in 88 balls, with 10 fours and three sixes. India was 226/3 in 35.3 overs.
This 167-run stand turned out to be India’s highest in ladies’s WC knockout matches for any wicket, outdoing Harmanpreet and Deepti Sharma’s 137-run stand within the semifinals of the 2017 version in opposition to the identical opponent. However so much needed to be performed, regardless of this record-breaking partnership. Deepti was despatched subsequent. Whereas she confirmed nice intent with some boundaries, a poor name for a run led to her being run out for a 17-ball 24, with three fours. India was down 4 wickets for 264 runs in 40.5 overs. The stand was as soon as once more reduce brief at 38 runs, disrupting India’s chase. With a single in opposition to Megan Schutt, Rodrigues reached her third ODI ton in simply 115 balls, with 10 fours.
She turned solely the second Indian with a WC knockout ton after Harmanpreet’s 171* in opposition to Australia throughout the 2017 WC semifinals. India’s attacking intent, as highlighted by a huge six by Richa Ghosh over long-off, left India to chase 63 within the last eight overs. Richa continued to steer India in direction of a win, with a 4 in opposition to Sutherland and a 4 and 6 in Gardner’s over. India was left with 34 to get within the last 5 overs. India had reached the 300-run mark in 44.4 overs. Sutherland’s golden arm did its magic as Richa handed a straightforward catch to Garth at backward level whereas trying a slice. The wicketkeeper-batter had gone again for 26 in 16 balls, with two fours and two sixes. India was 310/5, needing 29 in 24 balls.
Sophie Molineux’s forty seventh over produced simply six runs regardless of a boundary on the primary ball by Jemimah, leaving India with 23 wanted within the last three overs. Sutherland’s forty eighth over cooled off some stress, as two wides and two fours from Jemimah introduced down the equation to 10 runs in 14 balls. The equation got here all the way down to eight within the last two overs. Within the penultimate over, Amanjot shaved off the rest of the deficit, taking India to a win with 9 balls left.
Temporary Scores: India: 341/5 in 48.3 overs (Jemimah Rodrigues 127*, Harmanpreet Kaur 89, Kim Garth 2/46) beat Australia: 338 in 49.5 overs (Phoebe Litchfield 119, Ellyse Perry 77, Shree Charani 2/49).
Revealed on October 30, 2025
