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NAVI MUMBAI: Jemimah Rodrigues anchored an epic chase that shattered multiple records as India defeated defending champions Australia in the ICC Women’s World Cup 2025 semi-final on Thursday.
Phoebe Litchfield struck a brilliant hundred to power Australia to 338, setting a daunting target of 339 runs for the hosts.
However, India scripted history by pulling off the highest successful chase in Women’s ODI history, surpassing Australia’s 331 against India in Visakhapatnam earlier this month.
In doing so, India also became the first team ever to chase down a 300-plus target in a World Cup knockout, men’s or women’s.
The run-fest produced 679 runs in total, the second-highest aggregate ever recorded in Women’s ODIs.
Fourteen sixes were smashed in the game, the most ever in a Women’s World Cup match, pushing the ongoing edition’s tally of maximums to a record 124, eclipsing the 111 hit in 2017.
Jemimah Rodrigues played a crucial role in India’s remarkable victory, scoring an unbeaten 127 runs off 134 balls, with 14 fours.
This innings now holds the record for the highest score by an Indian in an ODI run chase, surpassing Smriti Mandhana’s 125 runs against Australia last month.
Additionally, she has joined Nat Sciver-Brunt as only the second player in history to score a century while chasing in a World Cup knockout match.
The 167-run stand between Rodrigues and Harmanpreet Kaur was another record in itself, the highest partnership for India against Australia in Women’s World Cups, surpassing the Mithali Raj–Punam Raut effort of 157 in 2017.
It was also the sixth 150-plus stand in a World Cup knockout, and the first not involving Australian batters.
Australia’s Litchfield, at just 22 years old, became the youngest player to score a century in a Women’s World Cup knockout match.
Additionally, the Australian team set a new record by achieving six hundreds in this edition of the tournament, the most ever in a single World Cup campaign.
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