Main points:
The Women’s World Cup 2025 final to be held in Navi Mumbai will be played between India and South Africa. This is the first title opportunity for both the teams. This time a new champion will be decided. India has played the first two finals while South Africa will enter the final for the first time.
Delhi: Did you note these 10 special facts to the final of ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup 2025 to be held at DY Patil, Navi Mumbai:
- The final between hosts India and South Africa means that whichever team wins, they will lift the World Cup trophy for the first time. In this way a new winner will be added to the list of England, Australia and New Zealand.
- First final of the Women’s World Cup for South Africa, whereas India has previously played the final in 2005 and 2017. Then they lost the finals to Australia and England respectively.
- India are so far undefeated at the DV Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai during the tournament (wins over New Zealand in the league round and Australia in the semi-finals, while the match with Bangladesh was inconclusive). This final is South Africa’s first match on this ground.
- South Africa never reached the Women’s World Cup final until 2022. After that:
Women’s T20 World Cup final in 2023
Women’s T20 World Cup final in 2024
Women’s World Cup final in 2025
Almost the same thing happened with the South Africa men’s team: no World Cup final until 2023 and then a T20 World Cup final in 2024. - The year 2025 is proving to be the year to end the trophy drought and misfortune and the Women’s World Cup will also get a new champion. This year, a record is being made for winning the first title: RCB won the IPL, Hobart Hurricanes won the BBL, South Africa won the World Test Championship, PSG won the Champions League.
- A new name is being added to the list of Indian captain in the World Cup final:
1983 – Kapil Dev
2003 – Sourav Ganguly
2005 – Mithali Raj
2011 – MS Dhoni
2017 – Mithali Raj
2023 – Rohit Sharma
2025 – Harmanpreet Kaur - This is the third final in the ICC Women’s World Cup in which teams without trophy winners are facing off:
Australia vs England, Christchurch, 1982
New Zealand vs England, Lord’s, 1993
South Africa vs India, Navi Mumbai, 2025 - After Australia, England and New Zealand, India is only the fourth team to play in three ODI World Cup finals.
- For the second consecutive year, none of the traditional cricket promoting countries England and Australia are in the Women’s World Cup final:
The first Women’s T20 World Cup in 2024 in which neither Australia nor England played the final.
The first Women’s ODI World Cup in 2025, in which neither Australia nor England are in the final. - In the World Cup knockout matches which were opposite to the result of the group round, there were only 7 matches before 2025 and this time two matches have been added so far. Will the third also join:
1993 New Zealand winners in group round and England winners in knockout
2000 Australia winner in group round and New Zealand winner in knockout
2005 New Zealand winner in group round and India winner in knockout
2013 West Indies winners in group round and Australia winners in knockout
2017 Australia winner in group round and India winner in knockout
2017 India winner in group round and England winner in knockout
2022 South Africa winner in group round and England winner in knockout
2025 England winner in group round and South Africa winner in knockout
2025 Australia winner in group round and India winner in knockout
