India couldn’t have hoped for a greater solution to storm into the semifinals of the Ladies’s ODI World Cup.
The stress mounted on the house workforce following three successive defeats, however because it returned to its cherished hub — the D.Y. Patil Stadium — greater than 25,000 spectators braved the rain and cheered for the Ladies in Blue.
And including to the festive fervour, India thumped New Zealand by 53 runs by way of DLS technique on Thursday to e-book a spot within the last-four stage after eight years because it rode on centuries by openers Pratika Rawal and Smriti Mandhana to place up a mammoth 340 for 3 in 49 overs.
Over the previous few outings, Pratika’s strike charge got here underneath the scanner. Nonetheless, she broke the shackles when it mattered probably the most.
Because the White Ferns put the host in on a batting-friendly floor, Smriti (109, 95b, 10×4, 4×6) and Pratika (122, 134b, 13×4, 2×6) laid the muse with a document 212-run stand — the very best for India in World Cups.
Battle
Because the New Zealand bowlers struggled to make inroads, a decided Smriti and Pratika took issues of their stride and reduce unfastened after a sluggish begin.
With the floor providing nothing to the bowlers, Pratika held her head down and batted by means of and within the course of grew to become the joint-fastest to 1,000 runs within the ladies’s ODIs, alongside Australia’s Lindsay Reeler, reaching the milestone in simply 23 innings.
Kranti Gaud and Renuka Thakur (in pic) struck early and the White Ferns struggled with fast wickets and key batters failing to transform begins.
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EMMANUAL YOGINI
Kranti Gaud and Renuka Thakur (in pic) struck early and the White Ferns struggled with fast wickets and key batters failing to transform begins.
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EMMANUAL YOGINI
Smriti grew in confidence and dominated with a brisk knock as she introduced up her seventeenth worldwide century.
Pratika too step by step bettered her strike charge and introduced up her second ODI ton.
Nonetheless, after Smriti fell to Suzie Bates, the workforce administration’s determination to raise Jemimah Rodrigues (76 n.o., 55b, 11×4) to No.3 paid off as she added 76 runs with Pratika and ensured there have been no slip-ups.
With rain halting play for lengthy, New Zealand’s goal was revised to 325 in 44 overs, however with not one of the top-order batters blossoming, it was by no means within the chase.
Kranti Gaud and Renuka Thakur struck early and the White Ferns struggled huge time as each Georgia Plimmer and Amelia Kerr didn’t convert begins.
Although Brooke Halliday and Isabella Gaze scored fifties, it was the top of the highway for the Kiwis.
Revealed on Oct 24, 2025