Record partnership between Jemima and Harmanpreet in the second semi-final

IND W vs AUS 2025: In the second semi-final of the ICC Women’s World Cup 2025 on Thursday (30 October), India registered a resounding victory by defeating defending champion Australia by 5 wickets. This proved to be the biggest run chase in World Cup history. With this victory, Team India has entered the finals, where it will face South Africa on November 2. (Jemimah and Harman’s explosive knocks helped India book a place in the World Cup final news in Hindi)

In this match, Australian captain Alyssa Healy won the toss and decided to bat first. Australia set a target of 339 runs for India with the help of Lichfield’s century and Perry-Gardner’s half-century. In reply, Team India won the match in the 49th over with the help of Harmanpreet’s brilliant innings of 89 and Jemimah’s unbeaten 127 runs.

This victory was very special for India, because it was against defending champion Australia, which had not seen defeat in any ODI World Cup match since 2017. In 2017 also, India defeated Australia in the semi-finals. Now Team India has succeeded in making it to the World Cup final for the third time. Earlier, the Indian team had reached the finals in 2005 and 2017, but was not successful in winning the title.

India did not have a good start while chasing the target of 339 runs. Shafali Verma, who joined the team after Pratika Raval’s injury, could not impress with her performance and scored only 10 runs. After this, the wicket of Smriti Mandhana fell in the 10th over, who scored 24 runs. However, after this a strong partnership was seen between Harmanpreet and Jemima. Both of them took India’s score beyond 100 by the 18th over and this partnership even reached the century mark. But India got its third blow in the 36th over when captain Harmanpreet was out after scoring 89 runs. Overall, this pair made an important partnership of 167 runs.
India’s playing 11: Shefali Verma, Smriti Mandhana, Amanjot Kaur, Jemimah Rodrigues, Harmanpreet Kaur (captain), Deepti Sharma, Richa Ghosh (wicketkeeper), Radha Yadav, Kranti Gaur, Sri Charani, Renuka Singh Thakur.

Australia’s playing 11: Phoebe Lichfield, Alyssa Healy (wk/c), Ellyse Perry, Beth Mooney, Annabel Sutherland, Ashley Gardner, Tahlia McGrath, Sophie Molineau, Elena King, Kim Garth, Megan Schutt

According to the information, Australia women’s team has won the Women’s ODI World Cup 7 times so far. At the same time, the Indian women’s team is trying to win this title for the first time. The Indian team has reached the final of the Women’s ODI World Cup only twice before, in 2005 and 2017. It is noteworthy that in 2017, Team India had defeated Australia to make it to the finals.

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