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South Africa defeated India for the third consecutive time in the World CupImage Credit source: PTI

India Women vs South Africa Women World Cup Match Result: In the most exciting match so far in the ICC Women's World Cup 2025, South Africa defeated Team India by 3 wickets. In the 10th match of the World Cup played in Visakhapatnam, South Africa snatched victory from Team India despite being in a losing position. South Africa, which lost 5 wickets for just 81 runs, achieved the target of 252 runs set by India in 48.5 overs on the basis of Nadine Declercq's astonishing inning of 84 not out off 54 balls. This is India's first defeat in this tournament and third consecutive defeat against South Africa in World Cup history.

Team India batted first in this match and the pair of openers Smriti Mandhana-Pratika Rawal made a strong start. Both made a half-century partnership but for the third consecutive time in the tournament, Mandhana failed to score big. Harleen Deol, who played important innings in the last two matches, also got out early this time, while the bad phase of captain Harmanpreet Kaur and Jemimah Rodriguez continued. At one time the team's score was 83 runs at the loss of 1 wicket but within some time it became 102 runs at the loss of 6 wickets.

Richa played a memorable innings

After the fall of the sixth wicket, Richa Ghosh came out to bat and from here the picture of the Indian innings gradually changed. Richa first made a half-century partnership with Amanjot Kaur and then along with Sneh Rana scored a quick 88 runs in just 53 balls. Sneh made an important contribution by scoring 33 runs (24 balls), while Richa batted brilliantly and scored 94 runs in just 77 balls. She was out in the last over and missed her first century. Chloe Tryon took 3 wickets for South Africa.

South Africa's top order also failed

On the other hand, South Africa had a bad start when in the third over, young pacer Pratika Raval caught Tazmin Britts with one hand on her own ball. Brits had scored a century in the last match but this time could not even open the account. The top order of the African team could not do anything special this time and its 5 wickets were returned to the pavilion for just 81 runs. From here, captain Laura Woolworth took over the innings along with Tryon and gradually gave it momentum.

But when this partnership was proving to be a disaster for Team India, as soon as Kranti returned to bowling, he broke the 71-run partnership by bowling Woolworth. But Team India did not get relief from here either because as soon as the new batsman Nadine Declerc came, she batted furiously and added 69 runs with Tryon. This batsman completed his half-century in 41 balls by hitting 2 consecutive sixes and fours on Kranti in the 47th over and brought his team back. From here Declerk single-handedly snatched the match from Team India. This batsman gave a memorable victory to South Africa by hitting 2 sixes in the 49th over. Declerc hit 5 sixes and 8 fours in his innings.