Harmanpreet Kaur: Indian Women’s Cricket Team won the ICC World Cup 2025 title by defeating South Africa. Under the leadership of Harmanpreet Kaur, the Indian women’s team became World Cup champion for the first time.
In the final, Women in Blue defeated South Africa Women in both batting and bowling. Harmanpreet’s captaincy was excellent in this match. He played a bet which went in favor of Team India. This one masterstroke changed the course of the match.
For some time now, many questions were being raised on the captaincy of Harmanpreet Kaur. Many people believed that she could not take better decisions according to the circumstances of the match. Also, he is not very efficient in making bowling changes. The Indian player slapped all those critics in the final of the Women’s World Cup.
Harmanpreet played such a trick during South Africa’s innings, due to which the Indian women’s team was successful in winning the World Cup trophy. When the Indian captain saw that his main bowlers were not able to take wickets, he handed the ball to part-time bowler Shefali Verma. Shefali, playing only her second match in the tournament, did wonders.
The 21-year-old right arm off-break bowler created a sensation by caught and bowling Suni Luus on the second ball of his very first over. In his very next over, the young player gave a big success to India by getting the dangerous Marijane Kapp caught by Richa Ghosh on the very first ball. These two wickets changed the complexion of the match.
Shefali Verma lost two batsmen giving only 36 runs in her spell of 7 overs. Before this, he had created a stir in batting also. Where the Indian opener played a brilliant inning of 87 runs in just 78 balls. She was also chosen Player of the Match for this all-round performance.
