India have claimed their maiden ICC Ladies’s Cricket World Cup title after a powerful batting show was backed up by Deepti Sharma’s good five-for, overshadowing Laura Wolvaardt’s glittering century for the courageous Proteas Ladies silver medalists, on the DY Patil floor in Navi Mumbai, India, on Sunday, 2 November 2025.
Set 299 to win, Laura Wolvaardt was as soon as once more the star of the present for South Africa, racking up a second successive century to guide the match’s batting standings by 137 runs, however all her talent and runs weren’t sufficient to win the trophy for the Proteas Ladies, as common wickets on the opposite facet left the guests 52 runs shy of laying fingers on the nation’s first ODI silverware.
Invited to bat when Laura Wolvaardt referred to as proper and determined to area first, Indian openers Smriti Mandhana (45) and Shafali Verma (87) reeled off the host nation’s sixth opening partnership century of the match at a run-a-ball earlier than the autumn of Mandhana, citing their half-century within the seventh over and forcing the introduction of spin throughout the first powerplay.
The openers’ opening stand of 106 off 103 balls has early predictions of the match hosts posting a complete in extra of 320 runs, however Chloe Tryon (46 for 1 off 7 overs) reigned in these ambitions when she opened South Africa’s wickets column within the nineteenth over, taking Mandhana edged to the keeper with the rating on 104.
Verma continued plundering runs with Jemimah Rodrigues (24) and the 2 elevated the stress on South Africa with a 62-run partnership at fast time earlier than Verma misplaced her wicket to South Africa’s strike bowler of the innings, Ayabonga Khaka (58/ 3 off 9 overs), who had the tiring opener caught by Luus mid-off.
Khaka’s breakthrough heralded a turning level within the match, and shortly thereafter India’s semi-final heroine Jemimah Rodrigues (24) grew to become the South African opening bowler’s second wicket in her second spell, leaving India on 171/3 after 29.4 overs.
It will be simply in need of one other 10 overs earlier than the Proteas Ladies claimed their fourth wicket throughout which period skipper Harmanpreet Kaur (20) and Deepti Sharma (58) placed on 52 runs in 56 balls, however the writing was on the wall when Nonkululeko Mlaba (47/1) clean-bowled the Indian captain to open her account, with India 4 down for 223 runs on the board.
Amanjot Kaur was the following to observe after the addition of twenty-two runs with Sharma, caught and bowled by Nadine de Klerk (52/1). Richa Ghosh (34) performed a familiarly harmful innings, compiling runs quickly, however fell early for Khaka’s third wicket, India posting a middling 298 of their innings.
South Africa began their chase properly sufficient, compiling a gentle opening partnership earlier than Tazmin Brits was prematurely run out by Amanjot Kaur after 9 overs, with the overall on 51/1.
Anneke Bosch’s woeful match continued, compounded her distress and escalated South Africa’s predicament by posting a six-delivery duck, caught-and-bowled by Sree Charani (1/48) with the Proteas Ladies’s chase surprised at 62/2.
Suné Luus was subsequent up on the crease, including a productive 52-run fourth-wicket partnership with captain Wolvaardt, persevering with the runs off her bat on the different finish, earlier than the batting all-rounder was tamely out, caught-and-bowled to Verma (2/36).
Bowling all-rounder Marizanne Kapp joined Wolvaardt with the rating on 114/3, however this time her ball-hitting expertise didn’t make an influence on the sport, departing after the addition of simply 4 runs to her identify for Verma’s second wicket, leaving South Africa dangerously positioned on 148 for the lack of 5 wickets.
All through the common fall of South African wickets, skipper Wolvaardt continued to patiently add runs to the scoreboard, intermittently stroking boundaries and sprinting by means of for singles, conserving her facet within the sport, regardless of the daunting warmth and home-crowd cheers.
Sinalo Jafta (16) walked in at quantity six, however she struggled towards the Indian, bravely including 16 of the 25-run partnership with Wolvaardt, earlier than falling to Sharma (5/39) for her first wicket.
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Jafta’s wicket introduced Annerie Dercksen (35) to the crease, and she or he and her captain shortly settled into the best partnership of the South African innings, with the junior associate trusting her eye to hit massive sixes, and quick sufficient to steal singles when required.
It regarded momentarily as if the South African problem might threaten the favourites’ of their successful quest, however that faint hope was handled when Sharma labored Dercksen for her second wicket, and going even higher with the wicket of Wolvaardt for her third, simply two deliveries later, the stands roaring in delight.
A rearguard effort by Nadine de Klerk (18), valiantly trying to shut on the goal with the decrease order’s Khaka and Mlaba, however it was a trigger that needed to be gained by the batters greater up the order, and she or he was the ultimate wicket misplaced going for an additional most within the nation’s pursuits, fittingly to Sharma for her good championship-winning five-for innings.
South Africa and Knockout Fixtures and Outcomes on the ICC Ladies’s Cricket World Cup 2025
Thu, 25 Sept- 1st Heat-Up: South Africa vs Bangladesh – Washed out with out a ball bowled
Solar, 28 Sept- 2nd Heat-Up: South Africa beat Pakistan by 4 wickets
Fri, 3 Oct: England beat South Africa by 10 wickets (Barsapara Cricket Stadium, Guwahati)
Mon, 6 Oct: South Africa beat New Zealand by 6 wickets (Holkar Cricket Stadium, Indore)
Thu, 9 Oct: South Africa beat India by 3 wickets (ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium, Visakhapatnam)
Mon, 13 Oct: South Africa beat Bangladesh by 3 wickets (ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium, Visakhapatnam)
Fri, 17 Oct: South Africa beat Sri Lanka by 10 wickets (DLS) (R.Premadasa Stadium, Colombo)
Tue, 21 Oct: South Africa beat Pakistan by 150 runs (DLS) (R.Premadasa Stadium, Colombo)
Sat, 25 Oct: Australia beat South Africa by 7 wickets (Holkar Cricket Stadium, Indore)
Wed, 29 Oct: South Africa beat England by 125 runs (Guwahati/Colombo)
Thu, 30 Oct: India beat Australia by 5 wickets (Dr. DY Patil Sports activities Academy, Navi Mumbai)
Solar, 2 Nov: India beat South Africa by 51 runs (Dr. DY Patil Sports activities Academy, Navi Mumbai)
Proteas Ladies Taking part in XI
Laura Wolvaardt (c)
Tazmin Brits
Anneke Bosch
Suné Luus
Marizanne Kapp
Sinalo Jafta (wk)
Chloé Tryon
Annerie Dercksen
Nadine de Klerk
Ayabonga Khaka
Nonkululeko Mlaba
India Taking part in XI
Shafali Verma
Smriti Mandhana
Jemimah Rodrigues
Harmanpreet Kaur (c)
Deepti Sharma
Richa Ghosh (wk)
Amanjot Kaur
Radha Yadav
Kranti Gaud
Sree Charani
Renuka Singh Thakur
Principal Photograph Caption: India have claimed their maiden ICC Ladies’s Cricket World Cup title after a powerful batting show was backed up by Deepti Sharma’s good five-for, overshadowing Laura Wolvaardt’s glittering century for the courageous Proteas Ladies silver medalists, on the DY Patil floor in Navi Mumbai, India, on Sunday, 2 November 2025. All Pictures: Matthew Lewis / Getty Photographs by way of ICC
Photograph 2 Caption: After her scintillating 169 towards England to win the semi-final, SA skipper Laura Wolvaardt smashed one other century towards India within the ultimate.
Photograph 3 Caption: Proteas Ladies strike bowler Ayabonga Khaka returned the most effective SA figures for the ultimate, claiming 3 wickets for 58 runs in her 9 overs.
