India, Oct. 30 -- If Harmanpreet Kaur did it in 2017, it was hometown girl Jemimah Rodrigues in 2025. Eight years apart, an Indian women's team batter batted out of her skin against Australia to take the team to the World Cup final. After all, it needs something special to beat the best team in the world. It needs something special to pull off the biggest run chase in the history of ODI World Cup knockouts (men and women included); doesn't it?

The Indian women's team held its nerve, stared back at the ghost of choking and pulled off a historical 339-run chase in front of a packed DY Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai to storm into the final of the Women's World Cup 2025.

This was the first time a 300-plus total was gunned down in an ODI World...