{"id":428,"date":"2025-10-31T11:03:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T11:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytherepublic.com\/?p=428"},"modified":"2025-10-31T11:03:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T11:03:21","slug":"india-savours-greatest-day-after-womens-world-cup-heroics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytherepublic.com\/bn\/2025\/10\/31\/india-savours-greatest-day-after-womens-world-cup-heroics\/","title":{"rendered":"\u09ad\u09be\u09b0\u09a4\u09c0\u09af\u09bc \u09ae\u09b9\u09bf\u09b2\u09be \u09ac\u09bf\u09b6\u09cd\u09ac\u0995\u09be\u09aa \u09b9\u09bf\u09b0\u09cb\u0987\u099c\u09ae-\u098f\u09b0 \u09aa\u09b0 \u2018\u09b8\u09b0\u09cd\u09ac\u09b6\u09cd\u09b0\u09c7\u09b7\u09cd\u09a0 \u09a6\u09bf\u09a8\u2019 \u0989\u09aa\u09ad\u09cb\u0997 \u0995\u09b0\u099b\u09c7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News DESK MUMBAI, India, Oct 31 <\/strong>: India&#8217;s stunning World Cup semi-final&nbsp;<br>win over Australia was described Friday as the greatest day in the history of&nbsp;<br>women&#8217;s cricket in the country, with Jemimah Rodrigues hailed for her&nbsp;<br>&#8220;innings of a lifetime&#8221;. Batter Rodrigues hit an unbeaten 127 as the hosts chased down a record 339 in&nbsp; Mumbai on Thursday to oust reigning seven-time champions Australia in Mumbai.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>India face South Africa in the final at the same venue on Sunday as both&nbsp;<br>teams attempt to win the one-day tournament for the first time in its 52-year&nbsp;<br>history. Amanjot Kaur hit the winning boundary to take India into their third final of&nbsp; an ODI World Cup, triggering emotional scenes. The 25-year-old Rodrigues sank to her knees in tears while her teammates&nbsp; rushed to celebrate the sensational upset. &#8220;This is the greatest day in the history of Indian women&#8217;s cricket,&#8221; veteran&nbsp; commentator Harsha Bhogle said on X. Virat Kohli, the star batsman from the men&#8217;s team, called Rodrigues&#8217;s display&nbsp;<br>the &#8220;standout performance&#8221;. &#8220;A true display of resilience, belief and passion,&#8221; he said on social media. Former men&#8217;s captain Sunil Gavaskar called the victory &#8220;exhilarating&#8221; and&nbsp;<br>&#8220;absolutely thrilling&#8221;, especially because they were clear underdogs. &#8220;They&#8217;d lost to three big guns in the tournament and then to come back the&nbsp;<br>way they have just tells you the determination of this team,&#8221; the batting&nbsp;<br>great said on TV channel India Today. &#8220;So clearly you can say that the Indian women&#8217;s team has definitely come of&nbsp; age.&#8221; India lost three successive matches in the league phase before clinching the&nbsp; last semi-final spot, in contrast to Australia&#8217;s unbeaten run into the final&nbsp; four. India were in trouble at 59-2 in reply to Australia&#8217;s massive 338 when&nbsp; Rodrigues turned the game on its head in a 167-run third-wicket partnership&nbsp; with skipper Harmanpreet Kaur, who hit 89.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rodrigues, a middle-order batter who had a modest start in the tournament and&nbsp;<br>was dropped in the league game against England, was promoted to number three&nbsp; and delivered when it mattered. &#8220;When you are left and then come back into the team the pressure is way too&nbsp;<br>high&#8230; today&#8217;s innings was a marvellous innings,&#8221; said Gavaskar. That was echoed by former national cricketer Mohammad Kaif, who called it an&nbsp;<br>&#8220;innings of a lifetime&#8221;. &#8220;Fantastic to watch free-flowing cricket by Jemimah Rodrigues,&#8221; he said on X. &#8220;In and out from the team but she never stopped believing.&#8221; India have twice been runners-up, in 2005 and 2017. 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