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As heart rates stabilise east of GMT, I’m off for a soothing vada pav at Manchester Chit n Chaat (as kindly recommended by Krishnamoorthy’s cousin). Thank you all for your company and your emails – sorry I didn’t get around to them all.
There will be a new winner of the Women’s World Cup on Sunday. See you there.
Updated at 14.06 EDT
Harmanpreet Kaur, with the face of a woman dazed by events.
“I’m very proud, feeling great, we have been working hard for so many days, cant believe it.
We [her and coach] believe every player can win any match at any time in any situation. We made a few mistakes in this tournament and we have been learning from our mistakes.
We realised that we didn’t execute very well, we were late by two or three overs, that really cost us. We realised that we had to recalculate as once behind the rate it is hard to come back in the last five overs. You have to be very calculating.
Jemimah hasn’t batted at three too often, she always wants to do really well for the team and wants to take responsibility. Today was a very special knock from her, both of us had a very good time on the pitch, we were complementing each other and she was doing all the calculating on the pitch. I was so amazed to see how she was thinking and pushing me so we should give a lot of thanks to her.
We have one more game to go, we all played well, already we have started speaking about our next game, that’s how focussed we are. We are playing in home conditions which is really special for us, we want to do it for our fans and our families – one more game to go and we will do our best.
We are not playing alone the crowd are always with us, they’ve been amazing, even when we lost we kept getting messages. Our country is with us.
Updated at 13.56 EDT
Alyssa Healy’s reaction
We did that to ourselves a little bit, which is probably the first time that’s happened. We didn’t finish off with the bat, didn’t bowl great and dropped all our chances in the field. We still hung in there till the second last over, so we can take something from that, but ultimately we were outdone.
I thought we’d left a few runs out at the back end but 338, on a good wicket, I thought we were well in the game. It is what it is. India played really well, held their nerve and got themselves over the line.
[On Phoebe Litchfield] It’s a weird experience to watch the next generation go about it. Phoebs was sensational today and set us off really nicely. Kudos to her – it’s been fun to watch her and the next four years, leading into the next World Cup, will be really exciting to watch.
I thought Ash [Gardner] had a sensational tournament. Everyone contributed beautifully throughout this tournament which is why it’s so disappointing to be standing here right now.
We created enough chances [in the field], we just weren’t able to capitalise. I’m at fault for that as well. It’s something Australian prides themselves on and we let ourselves down. We’ll learn from that, we’ll grow and our one-day cricket will hopefully improve.
I think we’ve played some unbelievable tournament. But we’ve said throughout: if you don’t quite turn up in a knockout game, any of the top four teams will get you. They’re the top four teams for a reason. There was so much to be proud of, which is probably why this conversation stings a bit more.
I won’t be at the next World Cup mate! That’s the beauty of this next cycle, we’ll see [the evolution of the team] unfold. Like I said, there’s an opportunity for some young players and that’s really exciting for Australian cricket.
This match feels epic in so many ways. Not just in the extraordinary innings by Jemimah, and Harnampreet, and the cameos by Deepti and Richa, but the huge crowd, and the fact that now the Women’s World Cup Final will now be played between two sides who have never won it before. Massivley important for women’s cricket in India too. First the WPL, now this.
Australia should have won but they didn’t do the things they always do – they dropped catches, they threw overthrows, the death bowling wasn’t on point. The. pressure. got. to. them. And India capitalised.
Updated at 13.59 EDT
More from Jemimah Rodrigues
Initially I was just talking to myself [while batting], but towards the end I was just quoting scripture from the Bible because I had no energy, I was very tired. I was quoting one scripture which says, ‘Just stand still and God will fight for’, and that’s what I did. I stood there and he fought for me.
Towards the end I was trying to push myself and was not able to. Deepti was speaking to me and encouraging after every ball. I am so blessed that my teammates encouraged me to keep going. I can’t take credit for any of this; I know I’ve done nothing.
Navi Mumbai is special for me and I couldn’t ask for anything better. I would like to thank each and every person who chanted, who shouted, who believed, who cheered for every run. Thank you to everyone.
A tearful Jemimah Rodrigues is giving one of the great post-match interviews
Firstly I want to thank Jesus, because I couldn’t do this on my own. I know he carried me through today. I want to thank my mum, my dad, my coach and every single person who believed in me throughout this time. [Stops to wipe away tears] It was really hard, this last month, but this feels like a dream and it hasn’t sunk in yet.
I actually didn’t know I was batting at No3. I was down to bat at No5 but discussions were happening and I said, ‘Just let me know’. Around five minutes before I came in, I was told I was batting No3. But it wasn’t me, it was not to prove a point; it was just for me to win this match for India. We’ve always lost in crunch situations and I just wanted to be there to take us through.
It was not about my fifty or my hundred, it was about making India win. I know I know I got a few chances but I just feel that God rewards you if you do things with the right intention.
Last year I was dropped from this World Cup. This year I was in good form but things kept happening and I couldn’t count on anything. I’ve had such amazing people around me who believed me. I have almost cried every day throughout this competition. I was not doing well mentally, going through a lot of anxiety, then being dropped was another challenge for me. But I think all I had to do was show up, and God took care of everything.
Unbelievable. With the winning runs, the Indian players sprint onto the pitch. Harmanpreet punches the air and hugs the coach. Jemimah is overcome even as she walks off , she blows kisses to the crowd with one hand, wipes her eyes with the other. Australia are dumb-founded. Barely moving. Despite their record-breaking total, the big yellow machine malfunctioned.
Updated at 13.28 EDT
Player of the match – Jemimah
A weeping Jemimah collects her award, “ I want to thank every single person who believed in me. It feels like a dream”
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49.3 overs: India 341-5 ( Jemimah 127, Amanjot 15) Amanjot nearly does the job in two shots – but finishes it in three! Finds the power and the wherewithal to thrash four through the offside, two straight down the ground where it is cut of by a desperate diving fielder in yellow, and a final flourish through point. Out of this world cricket.
Amanjot Kaur of India (right) celebrates with batting partner Jemimah Rodrigues after hitting a four to win the semi-final. Photograph: Pankaj Nangia/Getty ImagesThey’re soon joined by their joyous teammates. Photograph: Francis Mascarenhas/ReutersJemimah Rodrigues celebrates India’s victory. Photograph: Pankaj Nangia/Getty ImagesShare
Updated at 13.31 EDT
48th over: India 331-5 (Jemimah 127, Amanjot 5) India need 8 from 12 balls
A couple off Sutherland’s first ball, then a wide, snatched magically by Healy to her left to stop it rolling to the rope. But she can’t do anything about the next ball which Jemimah ramps with style. Then another wide. Poor Sutherland marches back and wrinkles her nose. Beth Mooney has her head in her hands. And four more, Jemimah, stance wide, gloriously sliding the ball through point, she punches the air. The equation is India’s.
Updated at 13.17 EDT
46th over: India 316-5 ( Jemimah 118, Amanjot 1) India need 23 from 18 balls Jemimah tightens the knot with four from Molineux’s first ball, through point with power. Every hair on every body in Mumbai, chewing nails, sucking lips, stands alert. But Molineux keeps her nerve – just six from the over.
Updated at 13.08 EDT
WICKET! Richa c Garth b Sutherland 26 (India 310-5)
Tries to go up and over but finds only Garth at short third who holds on for dear life.
46th over: India 310-5 ( Jemimah 113, Amanjot 0 ) India need 29 from 24 balls Sutherland gives them nothing. Single, single, single, single, single, WICKET! We twist another bend.
Australia’s Annabel Sutherland (left) celebrates with teammates after taking the wicket of India’s Richa Ghosh. Photograph: Rajanish Kakade/APShare
Updated at 13.07 EDT
45th over: India 305-4 ( Jemimah 108, Richa13 ) India need 34 from 30 balls Richa on one knee, flamed amazement into the crowd for six, who are in ecstacies. Now another, just where she wants it from Gardner – this time four to deep midwicket. This is now advantage India.
Updated at 13.04 EDT
44th over: India 291-4 ( Jemimah 108, Richa 13 ) India need 48 from 36 balls Unbelievable, Richa shanks at a slower ball, it flies up and seemingly straight at McGrath at long-off, but she’s misjudged and the ball flies through her hands. Now four. Richa, backing away, top edging. The equation comes down further.
Updated at 13.02 EDT
43rd over: India 284-4 ( Jemimah 106, Richa 8 ) India need 55 from 42 balls Pressure – huh – Rodrigues reverse-weeps four from Gardner who plays dare with the umpire but is eventually called wide.
Updated at 12.58 EDT
A hundred for Jemimah
42nd over: India 276-4 ( Jemimah 100, Richa 7 ) India need 63 from 48 balls I still have no idea know where this is going. Jemimah reaches a glorious century but barely acknowledges it – clear your mind girl. Schutt’s last ball is crunched by Richa high into the night and over the rope.
India’s Jemimah Rodrigues plays a shot on her way to a century. Photograph: Punit Paranjpe/AFP/Getty ImagesShare
Updated at 13.10 EDT
WICKET! Deepti run-out (Garth) 24 (India 264-4)
Oh. Oh dear. Jemimah tonks the ball straight to short fine leg and sets off at speed, but a ponderous Deepti has no chance. Out by a tail’s length.
41st over: India 264-4 ( Jemimah 95, Ghosh 0) India need 74 from 54 balls The roar for the top-edged sweep by Deepti that reaches the boundary is huge, but the silence after her dismissal hangs like a damp coat in the Mumbai night.
India’s Deepti Sharma is run out by Australia’s Kim Garth. Photograph: Francis Mascarenhas/ReutersShare
Updated at 13.10 EDT
40th over: India 257-3 ( Jemimah 95, Deepti 18) India need 82 from 60 balls Schutt replaces Sutherland. They twinkle a couple of singles – Deepti over runs so can’t come back for a second from an overthrow in a tableau of limbs and voices. A wide. Then a full toss that slips dew-soaked out of Schutt’s hand. But Deepti can only find a single off the free-hit. More awesome fielding from Australia.
39th over: India 249-3 ( Jemimah 92, Deepti 16) India need 90 from 66 balls Deepti again, eyes like stone , steps and thunders King straight for a lofted four. She thinks she’s got another, but more elite fielding in the circle thwarts her. King gets away with a full toss.
38th over: India 240-3 ( Jemimah 90, Deepti 9) India need 98 from 72 balls Deepti gets the boundary first ball, up and over, clean hit over midwicket for four. The target drops below 100.
37th over: India 234-3 ( Jemimah 89, Deepti 4) India need 105 from 78 balls King, balletic approach. Beats Rodrigues with pearlers first and last ball of her over.
Updated at 12.23 EDT
36th over: India 229-3 ( Jemimah 87, Deepti 2) India need 109 from 84 balls An astonishing innings by Harmanpreet of power and passion – but will it be enough? Deepti doesn’t have long before she must start motoring.
ShareWICKET! Harmanpreet c Gardner b Sutherland 89 (India 226-3)
Top-notch diving catch by Gardner, holding on with one hand as she hit the ground. The stadium gasps. Harmanpreet is applauded into the dugout by her teammates, but marches straight into the tunnel.
Updated at 12.58 EDT
35th over: India 226-2 ( Jemimah 89, Kaur 85) Huge appeal for lbw by King against Rodrigues – Healy is especially desperate – and reviews. Rodrigues stretches into a sweep, misses, is hit on the back pad… but the ball would have bounced over the stumps. I think the stadium is pleased. Even more pleased now as Harmanpreet, boots like fire , pounds King up, up, and just short of the rope for four. Two Australian fielders converge but can do nothing.
Updated at 12.57 EDT
34th over: India 218-2 ( Jemimah 84, Kaur 83) Four through midwicket, hit with force of will as much as speed of arms, as Harmanpreet almost catches up Jemimah. Six from Sutherland’s over.
I think Rob referenced this match earlier…
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32nd over: India 212-2 ( Jemimah 83, Kaur 78) Harmanpreet pistachioes Alana King, striding down the pitch in her big boots, and dispatching her for six. And oh my – Jemimah hacks high into the air, King and Healy both go for the catch, and Healy lets it slip, somehow, like salt, through her gloves. But no time to post-mortem, the next ball is bottom edged by Harmanpreet for four. King, somehow, summons a smile.
32nd over: India 201-2 ( Jemimah 82, Kaur 68) The two hundred comes up as Sutherland’s first two balls are tapped for singles. But just three off the over, some tight fielding in the ring.
“Game on?” asks Jeremy Boyce. Game on Jeremy. “Finished cleaning my cooker and am back on your OBO. India are well in this. 2 wkts down, half an innings to play, run rate not too challenging if either of these two or the others can hit out now. Baz and Ben would say this is well on. Australia would fancy their chances if they were batting. But they’re not…. Intriguing. Go India !”
31st over: India 198-2 ( Jemimah 81, Kaur 66) Mumbai starting to sniff something now – Harmanpreet darts down the pitch to Gardner, swings legside, with flamingo bend, for six. They take drinks, with India needing 141 from 19 overs.
“India are returning the favour a la South Africa and completing a new record run chase by 2 runs,” writes Jazba. “Australia were good for 400 and crumbled.”
Updated at 12.58 EDT
30th over: India 189-2 ( Jemimah 80, Kaur 58) Take that, Harmanpreet snorts, rocking back on her heels and launching McGrath over extra cover for six. Four singles, India running like wolves now.
Raf’s England debrief:
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29th over: India 179-2 ( Jemimah 78, Kaur 50) At twenty to four, the skies are fading already in Manchester, they’re black in Mumbai. Kaur rolls her wrists to pick up a single for her fifty. Does she smile? Don’t be silly.
28th over: India 174-2 ( Jemimah 75, Kaur 48) 47) McGrath charges in, arms diagonal pistons. Australia are diving lemon daemons on the rope, diving full length without fear. Rodrigues thwarts them by lofting McGrath over extra-cover for four. Tick tock.
27th over: India 165-2 ( Jemimah 67, Kaur 47) Gardner hauls things back with four dots. Harmanpreet tries to break the shackles but can only pick up a single to long on.
India’s captain Harmanpreet Kaur plays a shot. Photograph: Punit Paranjpe/AFP/Getty ImagesShare
Updated at 12.58 EDT
26th over: India 163-2 ( Jemimah 66, Kaur 46) Garth starts with a wide. Two balls later, King dives on the rope, predator-like , to prevent a Jemimah scoop running for four. She digs up the surface with her spikes as she does so. But no-one can stop a wide one running for four leg byes. The next is flicked by Harmanpreet, as a rolled up newspaper after a fly, over midwicket for four more. Fourteen from the over.
Updated at 11.38 EDT
25th over: India 149-2 ( Jemimah 61, Kaur 43) Four singles from Gardner’s second over. At the half way stage, India are behind the run-rate, but have only lost two wickets. Advantage Australia, but all is not lost. Win predictor says 71 per cent Australia – India need another 190.
24th over: India 145-2 ( Jemimah 61, Kaur 38) Garth replaces Molineux, and Jemimah cuts her with rolling wrists to the rope. The red soil of the pitch is almost florescent under the lights. And Healy is in a bit of trouble after she’s hit from off the last ball somewhere painful on the gloves – in fact there might have been a tiny edge on that.
Updated at 13.07 EDT
23rd over: India 138-2 ( Jemimah 55, Kaur 37) Harmanpreet is beginning to purr, flames King to the midwicket boundary. Some sloppy backing up – pressure tells, even for Australia. Beth Mooney breathes heavily in the heat of the evening.
Updated at 11.26 EDT
22nd over: India 132-2 ( Jemimah 54, Kaur 31) India graciously accept a wide from Molineux, which on top of a late cut boundary from Harmanpreet and an overthrow means eight from the over.
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21st over: India 124-2 ( Jemimah 54, Kaur 25) Jemimah reaches a vital fifty with an urgent sweep to the rope, which just beats Litchfield (?) at full stretch. Then a lofted cover drive, just brushing the the diving hand of Litchfield again – at full stretch in middle air. Oh the glory of youth . Then a collision as Harmanpreet at full pelt charges into King waiting for the ball at the non-striker’s end. Both tumble to the ground, but seem ok.
Updated at 11.15 EDT
20th over: India 116-2 ( Jemimah 48, Kaur 23) After three more dot balls, Jemimah glides Molineaux for a tasty four, then forces Harmanpreet into a tight single.
Updated at 11.15 EDT
19th over: India 111-2 ( Jemimah 43, Kaur 23) King offers Harmanpreet a juicy full toss, and she leans in and tonks it through mid-on for a needed boundary – but those are the only runs from the over. Jemimah watches and waits from the non-striker’s end, the shadows from the bars of her helmet dancing on her neck.
Updated at 11.15 EDT
18th over: India 107-2 ( Jemimah 43, Kaur 19) Molineaux replaces Sutherland. Starts with a wide that passes Harmanpreet’s bat and Healy’s gloves and zips down to the rope. Nice running brings three singles, but the run-rate has crept up to 7.21.
Updated at 11.14 EDT
17th over: India 99-2 ( Jemimah 42, Kaur 17) King with the ball, and it is starting to rain in Navi Mumbai, umbrellas upa nd cagouls on around the ground. India hitting the ball nicely but finding the fielders. King calls for a towel to dry the ball.
16th over: India 94-2 ( Jemimah 39, Kaur 16) Sutherland resumes, Jemimah scoops, but only for a single. But Harmapreet does make the rope, tonked through mid-on with style.
15th over: India 88-2 ( Jemimah 38, Kaur 10) Alana King, fresh from 7-18 against South Africa, gets her first bowl. Harmanpreet doesn’t look entirely at ease, gets the ball stuck somewhere in her pad from the last ball, and Healy scrambles for a stumping. They take drinks, with India still in it – just.
14th over: India 83-2 ( Jemimah 36, Kaur 7) Sutherland’s first ball is tattied away through backwards point for four by Jemimah. And then Harmapreet, who has been slow off the mark, gets her first boundary with four flashed past a diving extra cover. At the same point in their innings, Australia were 89-1.
“Well I looked up Chip Butty now,” writes Krishnamoorthy V. “The humble vada pav is loaded with history. This was introduced during the textile mill boom years of Bombay when the workers needed to eat something quickly without a need to wash their hands later. A Pav (a special kind of bread) the fried potato filled vada and dry garlic chutney combination was easy on the purse, tasty on the palette and clean on the hands.”
Fabulous history lesson – thank you! Also, I need to try one.
13th over: India 74-2 ( Jemimah 31, Kaur 3) Molineux again, low pony tail, delicate gold hoop earrings. Just a single from it.
12th over: India 73-2 ( Jemimah 30, Kaur 3) A double change as Sutherland is thrown the ball. Her first ball is a full toss and Jemimah makes merry – three more singles to ensure that India are not falling too far behind on the run rate.
11th over: India 66-2 ( Jemimah 24, Kaur 2) Healy turns to Molineux. Jemimah slips over in the middle but scrambles back in time. Molineaux drops short and Jemimah licks her lips, sways and and shimmies her away for four.
10th over: India 60-2 ( Jemimah 19, Kaur 1) Garth’s first ball is caressed once more through the covers for four by Smriti, but she gets her reward, from a dud of a ball but a hell of a review by Healy. The stadium balloon deflates a little more.
ShareWICKET! Smriti c Healy b Garth 24 (India 59-2)
Silence at Navi Mumbai as Smriti – motoring – is given out on review. An eyelash of a spike on Ultra Edge – strangled down the leg side off a wide. Smriti can’t believe it, shakes her head as she shuffles off.
Smriti isn’t happy. Photograph: Pankaj Nangia/Getty ImagesShare
Updated at 10.59 EDT
9th over: India 55-1 ( Smriti 20, Jemimah 19) Gardner gets a go. Exquisite from Jemimah, a gem of a cover drive thrilling to the rope. And another, but Litchfield never gives up on the chase and saves four on the dive. She pants, hands on knees, giving everything.
8th over: India 49-1 ( Smriti 20, Jemimah 13) Garth gets the treatment now, Jemimah jumping almost into box splits and spooning Garth backwards for four.
”Andy Pechey complimented the new verbs you are inventing (mangoed, frying panned, baguetted) for the shots, in the OBO yesterday.” Desperate times Krishnamoorthy V…. “Let me help you with some more with local flavor —- vada-pav_ed, jalebi_ed, dhokla_ed, bajji_ed, lassi_ed.”
I just looked up a vada-pav, the Indian equivalent of a chip barm/butty?
7th over: India 44-1 ( Smriti 20, Jemimah 8) Stand upon stand of blue shirts gyrate to the crack of a Smriti cut, sliding like a paper knife through the green sward. A fabulous dive from Ellyse Perry on the rope saves another four next ball.
6th over: India 38-1 ( Smriti 14, Jemimah 8) Glorious from Smriti – plonks her left foot and clonks Garth back over her head for a heady six. Jemimah whisks four through midwicket and the stadium rocks with delight. I think I heard a commentator say 40,00 are in the stands today, and nearly every one in Indian blue.
Updated at 10.12 EDT
5th over: India 27-1 ( Smriti 7, Jemimah 4) Smriti nearly loses her stumps, having a wild hack at a ball that winks away and beats Healy as well, zipping down to the rope for four byes.
4th over: India 20-1 ( Smriti 6, Jemimah 3) A smart pick up at backward point stops a pretty shot from Smriti – Australia unlikely to be as sloppy in the field as India were. Five dots, a wide and a single off Garth. With a run rate of nearly seven at the start of the innings, India can’t have too many unproductive overs.
Updated at 10.04 EDT