In an unforgettable India women versus Australia women semi-final at Navi Mumbai, cricket lovers saw history being rewritten. India pulled off the highest-ever chase in Women’s ODI World Cup history, ending the incredible run of Australia and booking their place in the final with drama.
India Women vs Australia Women: record-breaking stats and milestones
Highest-Ever Chase in Women’s ODI History
Target: 339
India’s score: 341/5
It was a game where the India women’s team chased down a massive 339-run target against Australia women, thereby creating a new world record for the highest successful chase in women’s ODI cricket.
The previous record was 331 by Australia, set earlier in this tournament against India in Visakhapatnam. Coming into this match, the best successful chase for India in ODIs was 265, against the same opposition in 2021.
This was also India’s first-ever 200+ chase at a Women’s World Cup.
Australia’s Winning Streak Ends
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15 successive wins before the semi-final defeat
Previous defeat: also against India (2017 World Cup semi-final)
Australia came into the game with 15 consecutive victories in the Women’s ODI World Cup, a joint-longest winning streak in the tournament. The streak had stretched back to 2017 and equalled their earlier run from 1993 to 2000.
Once again, it was India women who ended Australia’s dominance, just as they did eight years earlier.
India’s Highest-Ever Total at a Women’s ODI World Cup
India’s total: 341/5
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Previous best: 340/3 vs New Zealand (same venue, last week)
This new total became the highest-ever Women’s World Cup score for India, and also the second-highest total by any team against Australia in women’s ODIs, just behind the 369 scored in Delhi last month.
Record-Breaking Aggregate: 679 Runs
The India women vs Australia women semi-final produced a total of 679 runs, which is the highest aggregate in Women’s World Cup history.
This surpasses the previous record of 678 runs scored between England and South Africa in Bristol in 2017.
It also stands as the second-highest aggregate in any women’s ODI, behind the 781-run thriller between these same teams in Delhi earlier this year.
Only the third 300+ chase in ODI knockouts – Men or Women
This game is now a part of a select group of only three successful 300-plus run chases in knockout ODIs — spanning both men’s and women’s cricket:
India (Men) – 315 vs Pakistan, 1998 Independence Cup Final
India (Men) – 326 vs England, 2002 NatWest Series Final
India (Women) – 339 vs Australia, 2025 ODI World Cup Semi-Final
Truly a milestone for Indian cricket.
Jemimah Rodrigues Shines with a Record Knock
Score: 127* (not out)
Record: Highest individual score in an ODI chase for India women
Jemimah Rodrigues played the innings of her life, smashing an unbeaten 127 to anchor India’s chase. She surpassed Smriti Mandhana’s 125 (scored against Australia last month) as the highest score in a Women’s ODI chase by an Indian.
Partnership Power: Rodrigues & Harmanpreet Create History
Partnership: 167 runs (3rd wicket)
The duo of Jemimah Rodrigues and Harmanpreet Kaur stitched together a very important 167-run partnership, the highest-ever stand against Australia at a Women’s ODI World Cup.
It is also the third-highest partnership against Australia in all women’s ODIs and the best ever for the third wicket.
Harmanpreet Kaur – The Knockout Queen
3 consecutive 50+ scores in Women’s ODI World Cup knockouts
Total knockout runs: 311
Harmanpreet Kaur’s big-match consistency continues: three 50-plus scores in knockout games for her now; only Belinda Clark has more – four.
Her 311 runs in World Cup knockouts are the second most in history, behind only Clark’s 330.
Record-breaking Phoebe Litchfield Eyes Australian Debut
Century off: 77 balls
Record: Fastest hundred in any Women’s ODI knockout game
Even with the defeat, Phoebe Litchfield’s name was etched in history as she scored a 77-ball century, the fastest in a knockout Women’s ODI.
She overtook the previous record of 90 balls shared by Harmanpreet Kaur (2017 semi-final) and Nat Sciver-Brunt (2022 final).
She also became the youngest batter to score a knock-out hundred in women’s ODIs at that young age.
Australia’s Spinners Stuggle
Overs bowled: 23.3
Runs conceded: 157 Wickets taken: 0 Australian spinners had a torrid time, bowling 23.3 overs wicketless and conceding 157 runs the most overs bowled without a wicket in women’s ODI history.
Their previous unwanted record was 23 overs against New Zealand in 2012. A Final Without Australia or England A First The 2025 edition of the Women’s ODI World Cup will create history for another reason too, it will be the first-ever final without Australia or England. In each of the previous editions which had a final, one of these two teams had always qualified.
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