An inspiring knock from Jemimah Rodrigues guided India to a historic five-wicket win over Australia throughout the ICC Girls’s World Cup 2025 semifinal on the DY Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai on Thursday. The win over Alyssa Healy’s Australia took India to their third ODI Girls’s World Cup ultimate after reaching the summit conflict twice earlier than in 2005 and 2017. On each events, India misplaced the finals and completed runners-up, however this time, India have a brilliant probability to undo earlier outcomes as they face South Africa within the finals at house.
Former India captain Mithali Raj credited centurion Jemimah, who soaked all of the strain and constructed a robust basis alongside skipper Harmanpreet Kaur, who scored a useful 89.
“Effectively, that is precisely what a becoming semi-final in a World Cup needs to be, two high groups, India and Australia, going head-to-head. The storytelling continues. Jemimah Rodrigues’ knock was one for the ages, particularly in a high-pressure semi-final the place India wanted people to rise to the event,” stated Mithali on JioStar.
Jemimah and Harmanpreet added 167 runs off 156 deliveries for the third wicket and made positive India stayed within the hunt of a 339-run chase. After Harmanpreet’s dismissal, Jemimah continued from one finish and made essential partnerships with Deepti Sharma, Richa Ghosh earlier than Amanjot Kaur completed the sport within the forty ninth over.
Mithali stated it didn’t appear India have been out of the competition at any given level. “Australia understood the importance of the sport, performed out of their pores and skin, and posted 338 on the board. India didn’t lose hope even after dropping Shafali Verma and Smriti Mandhana, who’ve been in glorious kind. Jemimah, strolling in at quantity three, together with Captain Harmanpreet Kaur, steadied the innings fantastically. At no level did it appear to be India was out of the competition. Contributions from Richa Ghosh, Amanjot, and Deepti Sharma additional strengthened the innings. Nevertheless it was Jemimah’s century that actually held India collectively and took them over the road. While you rating 100 in a knockout, you guarantee your group will get via, and that’s precisely what Jemimah did,” she stated.
The overhaul of 339 was the very best profitable chase within the historical past of the Girls’s ODIs. It was additionally the very best ever profitable chase in any World Cup knockout match, together with males’s cricket.