Jemaima’s unbeaten century sets world record, India enters World Cup final against Australia

Jemimah Rodrigues made this day a memorable one for women’s cricket in India and the world in Navi Mumbai. Her unbeaten century shattered Australia’s dreams of retaining the World Cup title.

The 50-over Women’s Cricket World Cup will have a new champion this time. India set a record for the most successful run chases and snatched a convincing victory against the favorites Ajit. Australia’s victory streak came to an end after winning 15 matches. As a result, Harmanpreet’s team will face South Africa in a bid to capture the World Cup on home soil.

Australia won the toss and elected to bat. Alyssa Healy’s team scored 338 runs in 49.5 overs. Phoebe Litchfield scored 119 runs off 93 balls with the help of 17 fours and three sixes. Ellyse Perry scored 77 runs off 88 balls and Ash Gardner scored 63 runs off 45 balls. Sree Charani and Deepti Sharma took 2 wickets each and Kranti Gaur, Amanjyot Kaur and Radha Yadav took 1 wicket each.

In reply, India lost two wickets for 59 runs in 9.2 overs. Shafali Verma scored 10 runs off 5 balls and Smriti Mandhana scored 24 runs off 24 balls. Then, India’s hopes of victory were raised by a 167-run partnership for the third wicket between Jemaima and captain Harmanpreet Kaur, which is a record against Australia.

Harmanpreet scored 89 runs off 88 balls with the help of 10 fours and 2 sixes. Deepti Sharma scored 24 runs off 17 balls and Richa Ghosh scored 26 runs off 16 balls. Jemaima survived till the end and left the field with the team winning. She could not fulfill the expectations at the beginning of the World Cup. She was dropped. But she played a brilliant innings against New Zealand. Today she played the best innings of her career.

He scored his third ODI century. His unbeaten 127 off 134 balls, which included 14 fours, was his career-high score. He did not celebrate after scoring his century. He celebrated only after taking the country to the final. Then tears of joy filled his eyes. India won by 5 wickets with 9 balls to spare. Amanjyot Kaur remained unbeaten on 15 off 8 balls. Jemaima got lucky several times. Especially captain Alyssa Healy dropped her catch, which ultimately knocked the Aussies out of the World Cup.

Annabelle Sutherland and Kim Garth took 2 wickets each. Deepti was run out at a crucial time in a casual manner, which could have been an obstacle in India’s record run chase and victory. India’s fielding also needs to improve against South Africa. However, today’s victory will undoubtedly boost India in the final on Sunday. Jemima expressed her gratitude to Jesus Christ for creating history in her hometown. She said that the Bible lines inspired her to turn around in bad times.