On the night of 2 November 2025, as India celebrated winning the Women’s World Cup final, South Africa captain Laura Wolvaardt was sitting silently in her hotel room. She must be thinking that if some of her colleagues had performed better, perhaps history would have been different today. But she single-handedly gave her team hope of victory and remained on the field for 41.1 overs.

Laura Wolvaardt’s brilliant World Cup
This World Cup performance of Laura Wolvaardt was unforgettable. As the leading run-scorer in the tournament, Laura scored 571 runs in 9 matches, with a strike rate of 98.78 and an average of 71.37. During this, he scored two centuries and three half-centuries, and also hit 73 fours and 7 sixes. However, despite her brilliant batting, she could not celebrate the victory.

India defeated
After the match, Laura said, today India completely defeated us. It is disappointing to lose, but we will definitely learn from it and come back stronger. Barring two bad matches, we played well in the tournament. Sometimes we played very well, sometimes very badly, but thankfully we played well most of the time.

the pain of defeat is visible
While listening to Laura’s statement, the pain of defeat was clearly visible on his face. She was probably thinking that if only one player had shown more passion with her, South Africa would have been immersed in the celebration of creating history today. But as he said, India completely outclassed them and won the final. Batting first, India set a huge target of 298 runs.

Laura struggled alone
South Africa expected Laura Wolvaardt to form a big partnership with her fellow batsmen one after the other, but one after the other her partners were getting out. Still, Laura did not give up and scored first a half-century and then a century. She became the first woman captain to score a century in the semi-finals and final of the Women’s World Cup.

finally lost courage
Finally, when the pressure increased, Laura played a big shot, but Amanjot Kaur caught her and dismissed her. At one time it seemed that Laura would get lucky, but Amanjot did not release her catch even after falling. Laura played a brilliant inning of 101 runs, but her efforts failed and South Africa’s hopes were also dashed.

South Africa’s short innings
Apart from Laura, Derksen (35), Tajmin Bitts (23), and Sune Luus (25) played short innings for South Africa. Whereas, Marijan Kaap’s bat remained silent.

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