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IND W vs NZ W, Women's World Cup 2025: In the 24th match of the Women's ODI World Cup 2025, India defeated New Zealand by 53 runs and made it to the semi-finals. Team India showed all-round performance in this decisive match played at DY Patil Stadium, Navi Mumbai. Batting first, the Indian team set a huge target of 340 runs, then did wonders in bowling and scored 271 runs. India also benefited a lot in the rain affected match. Let's look at the highlights of this match.

Smriti Mandhana and Pratika Rawal played century innings

New Zealand won the toss and invited India to bat first. In reply, Team India made a huge total of 340 runs after losing 3 wickets in 49 overs. Smriti Mandhana and Pratika Rawal scored explosive centuries. Smriti scored 109 runs in 95 balls with the help of 10 fours and 4 sixes, while Pratika scored 122 runs in 134 balls with the help of 13 fours and 3 sixes. At the same time, Jemimah Rodrigues also scored unbeaten 76 runs on 55 balls, which included 11 fours. Together, all three destroyed New Zealand's bowling.

New Zealand's bowling did not show much edge

New Zealand's bowling looked a complete flop in this big match. Amelia Karr, Suzie Bates and Rosemary Mair took 1 wicket each. The rest of the bowlers proved to be very expensive and gave away a lot of runs.

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After the ball, New Zealand's team also flopped with the bat.

The New Zealand team completely failed with the bat after the ball. In reply, New Zealand has been set a target of 325 runs in 44 overs. After which it could reach only 271 after losing 8 wickets in 44 overs. However, Brooke Halliday (81 runs from 84 balls) and Isabelle Gage (65 runs from 51 balls) played good innings, but they did not help in the team's victory. Apart from this, Amelia Kar also contributed 45 runs. At the same time, captain Sophie Devine's bat did not work and she was out after scoring only 6 runs.

Indian bowlers tightened their grip on New Zealand

In this match, the Indian bowlers completely tightened the noose over New Zealand. Especially Renuka Singh Thakur completely broke the back of the top order. Renuka and Kranti Gaur took 2-2 wickets. At the same time, Sneh Rana, Nallapureddy Charni, Deepti Sharma and Pratika Rawal also took 1 wicket each.

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