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[gudbud]

ROYAL CHALLENGERS BENGALURU

WOMEN- TWO 🏆

MEN- TWO 🏆

[fortuna-majoris]

The Daughters of India bring Glory to the Country

There are some tournaments that feel like they are meant to be the script of a Bollywood movie, the Women’s Cricket World Cup is one of them, especially for the Women in Blue. It had all the components of an inspirational movie, a strong start, a steep fall and finally the Heroes (Heroines in this case) winning at the end of the day with various redemptions.

The Strong Start

The Indian Women started their campaign against a neighbour and fellow hosts, Sri Lanka in the first game of the tournament on 30th September 2025, winning the game by 59 Runs with Deepti Sharma starting with the way she has always started, with 53 runs of 53 balls and taking a 3fer against the reigning Women’s Asia Cup winners.

India’s second game was against their bitterest rivals, Pakistan on 6th October 2025, winning the game by 88 runs with a 21 year old Kranti Goud taking the lead with 3 wickets and giving just 20 runs in her 10 overs

The Steep Fall

The downfall of the Women in Blue starts against an opponent whose campaign began exactly opposite to ours. After 69 all out against England, the South Africans turned their campaign around by winning against India with 3 wickets in Hand.

The Mighty Aussies then broke the World Record by chasing the highest total in Women’s ODI (331) with three wickets in hand, against the Women in Blue. Yet it wasn’t all bad for our Ladies since they became the only team to score 300+ against Australia twice (they did it the first time in the last match of the bilateral series played not even a month before the World Cup, where the Aussies put up a massive total of 412) in the 50 years of the sport.

The most heart-breaking loss probably came against England when India was in control for most of the match, yet their batting collapsed after the seniors, Smriti Mandhana, Captain Harmanpreet Kaur and Deepti Sharma got out and they lost the match by just 4 runs.

The Win

Just when everyone had written off India, they rose from the ashes and claimed a statement win against the Black Ferns (New Zealand) by 53 runs, with both our openers getting a fiery start with the bat (a partnership of 212 of 202) along the bowlers getting regular wickets.

The next match against Bangladesh was washed out but before the play stopped our in-form opener Pratika Rawal injured herself and was ruled out of the World Cup with a 21 years old Shafali Verma coming in for her.

It was revenge time for the Ladies representing India and the next in the list were the Women from down under, Australia, in the semi finals of the World Cup. After the first innings where the opponents scored a mammoth 338, all the fans had once again given up hope, accepting that the Aussies are meant to kick India out of the World Cup during the Knockouts. But it seems that no had one informed this to the Indian team, especially Jemimah Rodrigues, who played a once in a life time knock of 127(134)*, and Captain Harmanpreet Kaur who scored her habitual 89(88). These women not only entered the finals, they entered it while making new records as the highest ever chased score in Women’s ODI (shattering Australia’s record against us) and the Highest ever successful chase in ICC knockouts (Men and Women). They also broke Australia’s 15 match win streak in ODI World Cup, which started after the Indians defeated them in the semi finals in 2017.

Poetically enough Indians were facing their familiar opponents, South Africa, in the Finals. While batting first, India set a total of 299 with Shafali Verma’s quickfire 87 of 78 and Deepti Sharma’s run a ball 58. These two then went on become the reason why we won the World Cup by taking 2 and 5 wickets respectively. At the stroke of Midnight, Captain Harmanpreet Kaur took the final catch of the World Cup and sealed the Historic Win for India by 52 runs. Deservingly, Shafali Verma won the POTM and Deepti Sharma won POTT for 8 50+ scores and 22 wickets in this tournament alone. This win wasn’t just for the players, it was for every girl who was told that her dream was too much, that she was too much.

-Fortuna_majoris

[sebmygoat]

a few weeks ago i ran a survey for cricket fans on twitter and tumblr, so here are the results in a fun graphic for you all to look at! feel free to draw your own conclusions from them, i left my personal ones in the last slide 😉 feel free to ask any questions you have :D

disclaimer: this is in no way reflective of the wider cricket audience, australian english-speaking bias will bleed into all the results so nothing is the gospel, just thought it'd be something fun to run!

[binchickenisland]

ALANA KING 7/18 vs South Africa

Best-Ever Bowling Figures for Australia in Women's ODIs First-Ever 7-Wicket Haul at a Women's World Cup Second-Best Ever Bowling Figures Across All ODI World Cups

(ft. KING by Baker Boy)

[jedaos]

i hope this world cup shows people how boring the indian domination of cricket is. these association teams are giving us absolute nailbiters. italy just won their first t20wc game ever. how on earth are you looking at these teams and going yeah i'd rather sacrifice an association team making it to the super 8 for yet another forced india vs pakistan fixture. i hate you all.

[und1scl0s3d]

UHM ACKSHUALLY

[gudbud]

dw our bowlers will do really well and they will field very nice ok ( wtf is going on 💔)

[fortuna-majoris]

Would anyone actually be interested in reading an article I wrote about the Women's Cricket World Cup 2025 victory??