{"id":225933,"date":"2025-10-19T20:56:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T20:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/225933\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T20:56:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T20:56:17","slug":"england-records-four-run-womens-world-cup-win-over-india-to-join-australia-in-semifinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/225933\/","title":{"rendered":"England records four-run Women&#8217;s World Cup win over India to join Australia in semifinals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">England has secured its Women&#8217;s World Cup semifinal spot with a tense four-run win over tournament co-host India at Indor&#8217;s Holkar Stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">India, chasing a victory target of 289, seemed headed towards a much-needed win for much of its innings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Smriti Mandhana top-scored with 88 and captain Harmanpreet Kaur hit a run-a-ball 70.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">But England&#8217;s bowlers applied the brakes, with India finishing on 6-284 from its 50 overs to record a third-straight loss of the tournament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">England captain Nat Sciver-Brunt picked up 2-47 in eight overs with the ball, while left-arm spinner Linsey Smith (1-40 from 10 overs) bowled a tight spell, which included Mandhana&#8217;s vital wicket.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;Smriti&#8217;s dismissal was the turning point,&#8221; Kaur said after the match.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;We had sufficient batting to finish the game, but I don&#8217;t know how things went the other way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;Credit to England. It kept bowling well and kept getting wickets.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2025-10-18\/phoebe-litchfield-alyssa-healy-womens-cricket-world-cup\/105907312\" data-component=\"FullBleedLink\" class=\"RelatedCard_link__rsgR9 FullBleedLink_root__lTw_U interactive_focusContext__yRhc_ interactive_defaults__AKxUU FullBleedLink_showVisited__g3Xvz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alyssa Healy&#8217;s 7,000 inspiring Phoebe Litchfield<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP RelatedCard_synopsis__cFwMW Typography_sizeMobile14__u7TGe Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">Alyssa Healy has joined an elite band of women batters with 7,000 international runs, and Australia&#8217;s captain is inspiring her brilliant young opening partner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Winning the toss and opting to bat, England made 8-288, thanks largely to Heather Knight&#8217;s 109 off 91 balls.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">England joins defending champion Australia and South Africa in the semifinals with a fourth win in five matches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">It is unbeaten in the tournament (last week&#8217;s match against Pakistan was abandoned due to rain) and holds down second place behind Australia on the standings.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The four-time champions next play Australia on Wednesday at the same venue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">India is still fourth with four points from five matches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">It needs a massive turn-around in form against New Zealand and Bangladesh in its final two matches at Navi Mumbai.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">AP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England has secured its Women&#8217;s World Cup semifinal spot with a tense four-run win over tournament co-host India&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225934,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,49534,1208,96841,124911,1209,136732,7300,9738,96840,85,21418],"class_list":{"0":"post-225933","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cricket","11":"tag-cricket-world-cup","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-harmanpreet-kaur","14":"tag-heather-knight","15":"tag-india","16":"tag-indor","17":"tag-nat-sciver-brunt","18":"tag-semifinals","19":"tag-smriti-mandhana","20":"tag-sports","21":"tag-world-cup"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}