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<\/p>\nAustralia\u2019s reign as world champions is at an end after India pulled off the greatest run chase ever witnessed in the women\u2019s game to dethrone Alyssa Healy\u2019s unbeaten powerhouses.<\/p>\n
Not even a glorious hundred from Phoebe Litchfield and more spectacular hitting from Ash Gardner was enough as Australia\u2019s World Cup semi-final woes resurfaced, with India achieving an incredible five-wicket victory in Navi Mumbai, thanks to Jemimah Rodrigues\u2019 innings of a lifetime.<\/p>\n
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India\u2019s Jemimah Rodrigues of India put on a spectacular performance. Credit: Getty Images<\/p>\n
The bubbly India heroine, who\u2019s struggled in recent months, scored a fantastic 127no off 134 balls to guide the home side to the most unlikely of triumphs on Thursday, as India made 5-341 to surpass Australia\u2019s 338 all out, which had featured a superb 119 from Litchfield.<\/p>\n
But the breakthrough knock of Australia\u2019s young gun, aided by Ellyse Perry\u2019s 77 off 88 balls and, later, cemented by Gardner\u2019s sparking 63 off 45, still proved insufficient as India surpassed the world-record chase that the favourites had pulled off against them just 18 days earlier.<\/p>\n
Having been beaten in the 2017 semi-final by India and having lost last year\u2019s last-four clash against South Africa in the T20 World Cup, defeat at the last-four stage felt familiar for Healy but no less crushing for her side, which had won all six previous matches they\u2019d played in this edition so impressively.<\/p>\n
But now, the team which has dominated women\u2019s cricket on the global stage for so long doesn\u2019t have a world title to its name, and it\u2019s India and South Africa who will battle for the title at the same DY Patil Stadium on Sunday.<\/p>\n
With Healy, back from injury, opting to bat on a rain-spattered afternoon, the captain struggled for her five off 15 balls, but Litchfield really came of age with her first World Cup hundred, the fastest ever in the knockout stages of a Women\u2019s World Cup off just 77 balls.<\/p>\n
She shared a 155-run stand with Perry that took Australia to 1-159 at halfway, dreaming of a bigger total than they ended up with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia\u2019s reign as world champions is at an end after India pulled off the greatest run chase ever…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251495,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-251494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251494","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=251494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}