{"id":258438,"date":"2025-11-02T22:31:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T22:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/258438\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T22:31:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T22:31:09","slug":"india-beat-south-africa-for-first-title-in-50-over-odi-tournament-shafali-verma-and-deepti-sharma-star-news-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/258438\/","title":{"rendered":"India beat South Africa for first title in 50-over ODI tournament, Shafali Verma and Deepti Sharma star, news, video"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shafali Verma and Deepti Sharma starred with both bat and ball to propel India to their first Women\u2019s World Cup title with a 52-run win over South Africa on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Hosts India posted 298-7 and then bowled South Africa out for 246 with spinner Sharma taking five wickets in front of a sell-out home crowd at Mumbai\u2019s DY Patil Stadium.<\/p>\n

Verma top-scored with 87 and Sharma hit 58 off as many balls as India posted a challenging total after they were put in to bat in a final delayed two hours by rain.<\/p>\n

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South Africa skipper Laura Wolvaardt hit a valiant 101 but her departure off Sharma raised the noise at the 45,000-capacity stadium, which had turned into a sea of blue.<\/p>\n

Sharma took down Nadine de Klerk, for 18, as the final wicket as Harmanpreet Kaur\u2019s India celebrated with the jubilant crowd inside the ground and millions outside in the cricket-mad nation.<\/p>\n

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The Indian women triumphed at the third attempt after finishing runners-up in 2005 and 2017.<\/p>\n

Indian captain Harmanpreet Kaur (2R) celebrates with teammates after winning the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup.Source: AFP<\/p>\n

Sharma struck key blows with her off-spin including Annerie Dercksen, who hit 35 in a 61-run partnership with in-form opener Wolvaardt.<\/p>\n

But it was Sharma\u2019s double-wicket over to dismiss Wolvaardt and then Chloe Tryon, for nine, that took India to the brink of victory.<\/p>\n

Kaur\u2019s ploy of giving the ball to Verma, an opening batter and a part-time off-spinner, in the 20th over proved key as the youngster removed Sune Luus.<\/p>\n

Verma dislodged Marizanne Kapp in the next over to plunge South Africa into deeper trouble but Wolvaardt kept South Africa in the game until her departure in the 42nd over.<\/p>\n

Verma, who was brought into the team for the semi-final after fellow opener Pratika Rawal went down injured, came out roaring with the bat.<\/p>\n

She put on 104 runs with Smriti Mandhana (45) to lay solid foundations at a venue that has produced big runs, including India\u2019s record chase of 339 in the semi-final against Australia.<\/p>\n

Sharma then added valuable runs with her 18th ODI fifty to crank up the pressure on South Africa despite three wickets for Ayabonga Khaka.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shafali Verma and Deepti Sharma starred with both bat and ball to propel India to their first Women\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258439,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[6074,2620,31021,1724,64,63,152205,128540,3471,138033,96841,152204,1209,151555,143308,67136,152200,53402,137952,152206,152199,152207,152201,1183,18780,12540,152202,85,152203],"class_list":["post-258438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-africa","tag-agence-france-presse","tag-alyssa-healy","tag-asia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket-mad-nation","tag-deepti-sharma","tag-final-match","tag-final-wicket","tag-harmanpreet-kaur","tag-in-form-opener","tag-india","tag-india-t20i-series-live","tag-indian-captain","tag-indian-women","tag-laura-wolvaardt","tag-maharashtra","tag-navi-mumbai","tag-opening-batter","tag-patil-stadium","tag-sell-out-home","tag-shafali-verma","tag-south-africa","tag-southern-africa","tag-southern-asia","tag-spinner-snares","tag-sports","tag-valuable-runs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258438","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=258438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}