🏏ICC Women's World Cup 2025: Australia W vs India W, 2nd Semi-Final🏏 - Page 35

It is toss time. Two captains are out now.

NZ won the toss and decided to bowl first!

Every time, everywhere, our captains toss losers--why, God...why?

New Zealand Women have won the toss and have opted to field

Sophie Devine: We are going to have a bowl first today. The surface won't change much and hopefully it can get better under lights, dew will also come in. We have been training exceptionally hard and a couple of extra sessions won't change much. This is the moment all cricketers want to be playing, pressure game, playing India in India.

Harmanpreet Kaur: Pitch is looking really good and it is a great opportunity to put up a good total on the board. Jemi is in for Amanjot. We have been playing good cricket but the result has not gone our way. We are getting starts but unfortunately we haven't made it big, today is a great opportunity to make it count for the team.

Teams:

India Women (Playing XI): Pratika Rawal, Smriti Mandhana, Harleen Deol, Harmanpreet Kaur(c), Jemimah Rodrigues, Deepti Sharma, Richa Ghosh(w), Sneh Rana, Kranti Gaud, Shree Charani, Renuka Singh Thakur

New Zealand Women (Playing XI): Suzie Bates, Georgia Plimmer, Amelia Kerr, Sophie Devine(c), Brooke Halliday, Maddy Green, Isabella Gaze(w), Jess Kerr, Rosemary Mair, Lea Tahuhu, Eden Carson

Teams:

India Women (Playing XI): Pratika Rawal, Smriti Mandhana, Harleen Deol, Harmanpreet Kaur(c), Jemimah Rodrigues, Deepti Sharma, Richa Ghosh(w), Sneh Rana, Kranti Gaud, Shree Charani, Renuka Singh Thakur

New Zealand Women (Playing XI): Suzie Bates, Georgia Plimmer, Amelia Kerr, Sophie Devine(c), Brooke Halliday, Maddy Green, Isabella Gaze(w), Jess Kerr, Rosemary Mair, Lea Tahuhu, Eden Carson

Jess Kerr to Rodrigues, FOUR, now with the open face! Showing her range and timing! Full and wide, Rodrigues reaches out and slices it away in the gap between backward point and short third

Jess Kerr to Rodrigues, FOUR, picks her spot nicely! Good length on off, mid-off is in the ringand Rodrigues lofts it cleanly over the fielder. Really good strike through the line.

INDW

266-1(41)

CRR:6.49

New Zealand Women opt to bowl

Girls are My only hope

Its do or die match for them

8:17pm local: The umpires are having a chat with the two captains and updating them about the conditions. We definitely would have lost few more overs. Devine conveying the message from the umpires to her team. The game is reduced to 44 overs.

INDW 340-3(49)

NZW 89-3(16.3)

CRR:5.39

REQ:8.58

New Zealand Women need 236 runs - 2nd Innings reduced to 44 Ovs due to rain, DLS Target 325

An outstanding demonstration of the Indian women's team's overall dominance.

They will win this game and advance to the semifinals.