India registered a resounding 5-wicket victory over Australia. (5-wicket ) 

Mumbai: The second semi-final of the Women’s ODI World Cup 2025 was played between India and Australia at the DY Patil Stadium. India won this thrilling match by 5 wickets.   (5-wicket )  With this, Team India has reached the final for the third time. This was India’s fifth semi-final in the Women’s ODI World Cup. Batting first in this match, India was set a target of 339 runs. In response, Team India easily achieved this target in 48.3 overs, thanks to a brilliant century from Jemimah Rodriguez. India will now face South Africa in the final on November 2. This is the highest run chase in women’s ODI cricket history. Previously, the highest run chase in women’s ODI cricket was 330 runs. The Australian women’s team achieved this target against India earlier this year. Jemimah Rodriguez’s historic match-winning innings of 127 runs was witnessed.

Phoebe Litchfield scored a brilliant century for Australia.
Regarding the match, Australia won the toss and elected to bat first, and the team was all out for 338 runs in 49.5 overs. In the semi-final match against India, Litchfield batted brilliantly for Australia and scored a century. While Litchfield and Perry were at the crease, it seemed Australia’s score would exceed 350, but Amanjot broke the 155-run partnership by dismissing Litchfield. Litchfield was dismissed for 119 runs off 93 balls. After this, Perry took charge and was dismissed for 77 runs. Tahlia McGrath could not do much in this match and was run out after scoring 12 runs. But Ashleigh Gardner finally played a quickfire innings, taking Australia past 300. Gardner was run out for 63. For India, Shree Charan and Deepti Sharma took two wickets each, while Amanjot Kaur, Kranti Gaur, and Radha Yadav each took one wicket.

Jemimah Rodriguez played a match-winning innings for India.
Chasing the target, Team India did not have a good start. Shafali Verma, who was returning to the team after a long absence, was dismissed for 10 runs off 5 balls. India then suffered another blow when Smriti Mandhana was dismissed for 24 runs off 24 balls. Harmanpreet Kaur and Jemimah Rodriguez then steadied India’s innings, sharing a 167-run partnership for the third wicket. Harmanpreet was dismissed for 89 runs in the match. Deepti Sharma was then dismissed for 24 runs off 17 balls. Jemimah Rodriguez and Richa Ghosh did the remaining work. Jemimah Rodriguez played a match-winning innings for India in this match.