"Biggest shift in women's cricket...": Ex-India skipper Anjum Chopra on India's maiden 50-over World Cup win
Published on: Nov. 22, 2025, 11:28 a.m. | Source: Devdiscourse
On November 2, all-round performances from a returning Shafali Verma and Deepti Sharma helped India make history as they defended 299 against first-time finalists South Africa to secure their first-ever world title across the ODI and T20I formats, winning the title clash by 52 runs at Navi Mumbai's DY Patil Stadium. This win came after two heartbreaks in the 2005 and 2017 World Cup finals and on the back of plenty of effort put in by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) to boost women's cricket in India, such as introducing equal match fees as the men's team and the Women's Premier League (WPL).
