Jemimah Rodrigues starred with a sensational 127 not out off 134 balls as India overpowered defending champions Australia within the semi-final of the 2025 Girls’s World Cup and stormed to the ultimate. India chased down a goal of 339, thus rewriting the document for the best succesfull run chase of all time in girls’s ODIs.
India suffered an early blow within the chase with Shafali Verma falling within the second over, and burning a evaluation as nicely. There was then a 46-run partnership between Smriti Mandhana and Rodrigues earlier than the previous was strangled down the leg aspect by Kim Garth within the tenth over.
Nonetheless, then got here an epic 167-run stand for the third wicket which got here in simply 156 balls between captain Harmanpreet Kaur and Rodrigues. Whereas Australia had piled on the stress on the Indian batters with their fielding, cracks began to look about midway by means of that partnership. The largest of these was captain Alyssa Healy dropping a sitter off Rodrigues within the thirty third over when the latter was on 82.
Extremely, that was not the one let off that Rodrigues loved on the evening. Nearly precisely 10 overs later, Tahlia McGrath let a simple catch go proper by means of her fingers and Rodrigues yet one more reprieve, this time when she was on 106.
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