🏏ICC Women's World Cup 2025: Australia W vs India W, 2nd Semi-Final🏏 - Page 52

Another powerful and bruising batting display by the world champions. Healy departed early, but Litchfield rose to the occasion, crafting a hundred of immense quality. Perry played second-fiddle and got herself to 77, but a few quick wickets through the middle meant that Australia had to then rely on Gardner's pyrotechnics to go past 330, even though at one stage, it felt they would cruise to a 350-plus score.

India, consequently, might feel they have done well to pull Australia back. The question, though, is if they have pulled them back enough. Charani was the pick of the bowlers but the rest struggled to assert any sort of sustained authority.

300-plus totals in Women’s WC knockouts

356/5 - AUS-W vs ENG-W, Christchurch, 2022 Final

338 - AUS-W vs IND-W, Mumbai DYP, 2025 SF

319/7 - SA-W vs ENG-W, Guwahati, 2025 SF

305/3 - AUS-W vs WI-W, Wellington 2022 SF

Ashleigh Gardner (328 runs at 82, SR: 130.15) is the first to aggregate 300-plus runs from No. 6 or lower in a Women’s ODI WC edition.

Australia’s 338 is the highest first-innings total vs India in World Cups, surpassing England’s 288/8 in Indore earlier this month.

Only once has a team gunned down a 200-plus target in the semi-final or final of the Women’s WC: England chased down 219 with 2 wickets and 2 balls remaining vs South Africa in the 2017 semifinal in Bristol.

India have never chased down a 200-plus target in the Women’s World Cup.

Most individual 100s in a single WC edition

6 - Australia Women in 2025*

5 - England Women in 1993

5 - England Women in 2017

Australia's nine sixes today is the most ever in a WC knockout team innings

We’ve now had 119 sixes hit in the tournament, the most in a Women’s World Cup edition ever, surpassing 111 in 2017.

India’s fielding in the tournament

Catches taken: 35

Catches dropped: 18 (most)

Catching efficiency: 66% (second-worst)

Stumpings missed: 3 (joint-most)

Misfields: 74 (most)

Balls with overthrows: 6 (most)

Deepti Sharma’s 2/73 today are the most expensive bowling returns in a WC knockout, surpassing Sophie Ecclestone’s 1/71 in the 2022 final