Tears, hugs, emotions take over! IND Women celebrate first ODI World Cup title - watch

For years, Indian women’s cricket had waited for this moment. On a memorable nighttime astatine the DY Patil Stadium, Harmanpreet Kaur’s India lifted their maiden ICC Women’s World Cup trophy, defeating South Africa by 52 runs to extremity a agelong wait. As Deepti Sharma completed her five-wicket haul and Nadine de Klerk’s dismissal confirmed the result, Harmanpreet took the last drawback and continued her stride arsenic the assemblage erupted successful celebration. The stands came live with cheers and tricolours waving crossed the stadium.

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Shafali Verma, who top-scored with 87 disconnected 78 balls and took 2 cardinal wickets, played a defining relation successful India’s victory. The effect besides ended India’s tally of heartbreaks successful the 2005 and 2017 finals. Emotions were disposable connected the tract arsenic respective players were seen successful tears. Richa Ghosh hugged her captain, portion Smriti Mandhana, Amanjot Kaur, and Renuka Thakur each were successful tears. Watch the affectional moments of solemnisation aft the gameHarmanpreet and Mandhana, wrapped successful the nationalist flag, shared a infinitesimal of solemnisation successful the middle. In the stands, Rohit Sharma was seen applauding the team’s effort, portion successful the other dugout, South Africa skipper Laura Wolvaardt, who had scored a good century, watched connected with disappointment aft her team’s beardown run ended successful defeat.

Earlier, India’s innings of 298/7 was anchored by Shafali’s fluent sound and Deepti Sharma’s composed 58, portion Richa Ghosh added a invaluable cameo successful the last overs. In reply, South Africa’s pursuit began good but faltered nether pressure, with India’s spinners tightening their grip arsenic the innings progressed. The triumph gave India their first-ever ICC Women’s World Cup title, a infinitesimal that capped years of dependable advancement and adjacent misses. As the players stood unneurotic astatine the presumption ceremony, the value of the accomplishment couldn't person been much iconic.