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India's skipper Harmanpreet Kaur, right, and Pakistan's skipper Fatima Sana (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)
India secured a commanding 88-run triumph implicit Pakistan successful the ICC Women's Cricket World Cup 2025 astatine the R. Premadasa International Cricket Stadium successful Colombo connected Sunday.The triumph extended India's unbeaten grounds against Pakistan to 12-0 successful ODIs nether the enactment of Harmanpreet Kaur.The lucifer proceeded with expected patterns, though notably without the accustomed hostilities. India maintained their "no-handshake" argumentation astatine the flip and aft the match, pursuing the precedent from the men's Asia Cup successful the UAE.The crippled featured immoderate unexpected moments, including a flip mishap, an antithetic tally out, and a 15-minute hold owed to bugs connected the field."Very happy, precise important crippled for each of us, and I'm definite everyone backmost location is blessed arsenic well," Harmanpreet said astatine the post-match presentation. India batted archetypal aft being sent successful and posted 247 runs earlier being dismissed. Harleen Deol contributed 46 runs portion Richa Ghosh added a speedy 35, though astir batters struggled to person their starts connected the dilatory pitch."It wasn't an casual transportation to bat on, we wanted to bat longer and spot however galore runs we tin get. It wasn't an casual pitch. It's been raining, and determination was a clasp connected the pitch. We wanted to support wickets successful hand.
The cardinal was keeping wickets, Richa batted truly good and gave america that important 30 runs," Harmanpreet said. Pakistan's pursuit began poorly arsenic they mislaid 3 aboriginal wickets, falling to 26 for 3 by the eighth over. They were yet bowled retired for 159 successful 43 overs.Sidra Amin stood retired for Pakistan with a warring 81 runs disconnected 106 balls, portion Natalia Pervaiz contributed 33 runs.India's bowling onslaught proved effectual with Kranti Goud taking 3/20 and Deepti Sharma claiming 3/45. Shree Charani besides contributed with 2/38."Our bowling was great. Kranti bowled truly well, she was outstanding and Renuka helped her successful getting the breakthroughs. We created truthful galore chances, unfortunately, we dropped it, but successful the extremity erstwhile you triumph you are happy," Harmanpreet said."There are a batch of areas but we are blessed we won, conscionable privation to spell with the momentum. Now we spell backmost to India, we cognize however the pitches play there, we volition look astatine the combinations and what squad we request to play," Harmanpreet said regarding areas for improvement.
