India’s gamers have fun with the trophy through the presentation ceremony after successful the ICC Ladies’s World Cup 2025, on the DY Patil Stadium, in Navi Mumbai, early Monday, Nov. 3, 2025.
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The Indian girls’s cricket workforce stored its date with historical past by successful its first-ever World Cup with a 52-run victory over South to script a golden chapter within the nation’s pantheon of sporting achievements right here on Sunday.
Shafali Verma, the 21-year-old, who until final week wasn’t even within the reserves, created reminiscences of a lifetime by scoring 87 in India’s 298 for 7 after which grabbed a few essential wickets to limit the Proteas Ladies to 246 in in entrance of a packed DY Patil Stadium.
The seasoned Deepti Sharma (5/39) and younger Shree Charani (1/48) additionally did their bit below excessive stress to usher in probably the most memorable day for ladies’s cricket within the nation.
From 1983 to 2025
India gamers have fun with the trophy after defeating South Africa to win their maiden ICC Ladies’s Cricket World Cup on the DY Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai, India, November 2, 2025. REUTERS/Francis Mascarenhas
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If June 25, 1983 was a watershed second for Indian males’s cricket, when Kapil’s Devils beat the mighty West Indies on the Lord’s, November 2, 2025 will likely be a seminal second for ladies’s cricket motion.
Rohit Sharma, who carries the scars of November 19, 2023, was watching the ultimate from the stands with a prayer on his lips that Harmanpreet Kaur doesn’t meet his destiny.
For Harmanpreet, the girl who has achieved far more for Indian girls’s cricket than anybody can envisage, is aware of how a lot it hurts to lose a last because it occurred eight summers again and her women didn’t let her down.
New Delhi: A person waves the Indian tricolour in celebration after the Indian cricket workforce received the ICC Ladies’s World Cup 2025, close to the India Gate, in New Delhi, Sunday, Nov. 2, 2025.
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As she latched on to Nadine de Klerk’s providing whereas again pedaling at further cowl, Ian Bishop fittingly known as the second “inspiring generations”. It couldn’t have been extra poetic with AR Rahman’s rendition of ‘Vande Mataram’ reverberating throughout the stands.
On the different finish was the regal Laura Wolvaardt, who gave every thing by scoring 101 off 98 balls.
For head coach Amol Muzumdar, the ‘Practically Man’ of Indian cricket, who couldn’t put on the whites that he well-merited, the worldwide triumph with the ladies’s nationwide workforce would definitely heal these wounds that he has carried for years.
Past the boundary
India’s gamers have fun after successful the ICC Ladies’s World Cup last ODI cricket match between India Ladies and South Africa Ladies, on the DY Patil Stadium, in Navi Mumbai, Sunday, Nov. 2, 2025.
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This isn’t simply one other World Cup triumph however one thing whose social influence will solely be understood could also be 20 years from now.
Eleven particular girls, led by their firebrand skipper, to any extent further are usually not simply position fashions however a beacon of hope for each lady from Kashmir to Kanyakumari, who aspire to select up the willow and the white cherry, figuring out that the sky is the restrict.
PM Modi congratulates Indian girls’s cricket workforce
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday congratulated the Indian girls’s cricket workforce for successful its first-ever World Cup with a 52-run victory over South Africa.
A spectacular win by the Indian workforce within the ICC Ladies’s Cricket World Cup 2025 Finals. Their efficiency within the last was marked by nice talent and confidence. The workforce confirmed distinctive teamwork and tenacity all through the event. Congratulations to our gamers. This…
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) November 2, 2025
“A spectacular win by the Indian workforce within the ICC Ladies’s Cricket World Cup 2025 Finals. Their efficiency within the last was marked by nice talent and confidence,” he stated in a publish on X.
“The workforce confirmed distinctive teamwork and tenacity all through the event. Congratulations to our gamers. This historic win will inspire future champions to take up sports activities,” Modi added.
India gamers have fun with the trophy after defeating South Africa to win their maiden ICC Ladies’s Cricket World Cup on the DY Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai, India, November 2, 2025. REUTERS/Francis Mascarenhas
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Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla additionally congratulated the workforce, saying the ladies cricketers have received hearts throughout the nation.
“Congratulations to Staff India on clinching the ICC Ladies’s World Cup 2025!What a show of braveness, talent, and perception. You’ve not simply received a trophy, you’ve received hearts throughout the nation. Each Indian is pleased with you! ‘Saare Jahan se accha Hindustan humaara’. A golden second for Indian cricket and for ladies in sports activities!” he stated on X.
Printed on November 3, 2025
