2025 Women's Cricket World Cup final

2025 ICC Women's World Cup Final

Event	2025 Women's Cricket World Cup
India South Africa 298/7 246 (50 overs) 45.3 overs
India won by 52 runs
Date	2 November 2025
Venue	DY Patil Stadium, Navi Mumbai
Player of the match	Shafali Verma (Ind)
Umpires	Eloise Sheridan (Aus) and Jacqueline Williams (WI)
Attendance	39,555 [1]
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The 2025 ICC Women's Cricket World Cup final was a Women's One Day International (WODI) cricket match played at the DY Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai on 2 November 2025 to decide the winner of the 2025 Women's Cricket World Cup. It was played between host nation India and South Africa. This was the second time that Women's Cricket World Cup final was held in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region after 2013, and the first in Navi Mumbai.

India defeated South Africa by 52 runs to win their maiden World Cup. ^[2]

Background

The 2025 Women's Cricket World Cup was the thirteenth edition of the Women's Cricket World Cup, a quadrennial World Cup for Women's cricket in One Day International (ODI) format organised by the International Cricket Council (ICC). In July 2022, the ICC announced India as the host nation for the tournament, as part of the 2024–2027 ICC Women's Hosts Cycle. ^[3] However, following an agreement between the BCCI and PCB, the ICC confirmed that matches between India or Pakistan at ICC events in 2024–2027 will be played at neutral venues when either of them are the hosts. ^[4]

On 2 June, the ICC announced the venues for the tournament, with the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru named as the venue for the final. ^[5] However, on 22 August, a revised list of venues was released, in which the DY Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai replaced Bengaluru as the final venue. ^[6]

This was South Africa's maiden final of the Women's World Cup, ^{[7] [8]} while India reached their third final, having been runners-up on both the occasions (2005 against Australia and 2017 against England). ^[9] It was also the first Women's World Cup final that featured neither Australia nor England. ^[10]

Route to the final

Main article: 2025 Women's Cricket World Cup § League stage

Each team played the other seven teams in the league stage; the top four teams advanced to the semi-finals. ^[11]

India   [12]				vs	South Africa [13]
Opponent	Date	Result	Points	League stage	Opponent	Date	Result	Points
Sri Lanka	30 September 2025	Won by 59 runs (DLS)	2	Match 1	England	3 October 2025	Lost by 10 wickets	0
Pakistan	5 October 2025	Won by 88 runs	4	Match 2	New Zealand	6 October 2025	Won by 6 wickets	2
South Africa	9 October 2025	Lost by 3 wickets	4	Match 3	India	9 October 2025	Won by 3 wickets	4
Australia	12 October 2025	Lost by 3 wickets	4	Match 4	Bangladesh	13 October 2025	Won by 3 wickets	6
England	19 October 2025	Lost by 4 runs	4	Match 5	Sri Lanka	17 October 2025	Won by 10 wickets (DLS)	8
New Zealand	23 October 2025	Won by 53 runs (DLS)	6	Match 6	Pakistan	21 October 2025	Won by 150 runs (DLS)	10
Bangladesh	26 October 2025	No result	7	Match 7	Australia	25 October 2025	Lost by 7 wickets	10
Semi-final 2				Knockout stage	Semi-final 1
Australia	30 October 2025	Won by 5 wickets		SF	England	29 October 2025	Won by 125 runs
Source: ICC [11]

Match

Match officials

On 31 October 2025, the ICC announced the match officials for the final. ^[14]

• On-field umpires: Eloise Sheridan (Aus) and Jacqueline Williams (WI)
• TV umpire: Sue Redfern (Eng)
• Reserve umpire: Nimali Perera (SL)
• Match referee: Michell Pereira (SL)

Team and toss

South African captain Laura Wolvaardt won the toss and elected to field first. Both teams were unchanged from their respective semi-final matches. ^[15]

Match details

Final 2 November 2025 15:00 (D/N) Scorecard

India   298/7 (50 overs)	v	South Africa 246 (45.3 overs)
Shafali Verma 87 (78) Ayabonga Khaka 3/58 (9 overs)		Laura Wolvaardt 101 (98) Deepti Sharma 5/39 (9.3 overs)

India won by 52 runs DY Patil Stadium, Navi Mumbai Umpires: Eloise Sheridan (Aus) and Jacqueline Williams (WI) Player of the match: Shafali Verma (Ind)

• South Africa won the toss and elected to field.
• Laura Wolvaardt (SA) became the first captain to score a century in the Women's World Cup final. ^[16]
• India won their maiden World Cup title. ^[17]

Match scorecard [18]

1st innings   India batting [18] Player Status Runs Balls 4s 6s Strike rate Smriti Mandhana c †Jafta b Tryon 45 58 8 0 77.58 Shafali Verma c Luus b Khaka 87 78 7 2 111.53 Jemimah Rodrigues c Wolvaardt b Khaka 24 37 1 0 64.86 Harmanpreet Kaur b Mlaba 20 29 2 0 68.96 Deepti Sharma run out (Tryon/†Jafta) 58 58 3 1 100.00 Amanjot Kaur c & b de Klerk 12 14 1 0 85.71 Richa Ghosh c Dercksen b Khaka 34 24 3 2 141.66 Radha Yadav not out 3 3 0 0 100.00 Kranti Goud did not bat Shree Charani did not bat Renuka Singh did not bat Extras (lb 2, nb 1, w 12) 15 Total (7 wickets; 50 overs) 298 25 5 RR: 5.96 Fall of wickets: 1/104 (Mandhana, 17.4 ov), 2/166 (Shafali, 27.5 ov), 3/171 (Rodrigues, 29.4 ov), 4/223 (Harmanpreet, 38.6 ov), 5/245 (Amanjot, 43.1 ov), 6/292 (Ghosh, 48.6 ov), 7/298 (Deepti, 49.6 ov)   South Africa bowling [18] Bowler Overs Maidens Runs Wickets Econ Wides NBs Marizanne Kapp 10 1 59 0 5.90 2 0 Ayabonga Khaka 9 0 58 3 6.44 3 1 Nonkululeko Mlaba 10 0 47 1 4.70 2 0 Nadine de Klerk 9 0 52 1 5.77 1 0 Suné Luus 5 0 34 0 6.80 0 0 Chloe Tryon 7 0 46 1 6.57 0 0 2nd innings   South Africa batting [18] Player Status Runs Balls 4s 6s Strike rate Laura Wolvaardt c Amanjot b Deepti 101 98 11 1 103.06 Tazmin Brits run out (Amanjot) 23 35 2 1 65.71 Anneke Bosch lbw b Charani 0 6 0 0 0.00 Suné Luus c & b Shafali 25 31 4 0 80.64 Marizanne Kapp c †Ghosh b Shafali 4 5 0 0 80.00 Sinalo Jafta c Radha b Deepti 16 29 1 0 55.17 Annerie Dercksen b Deepti 35 37 1 2 94.59 Chloe Tryon lbw b Deepti 9 8 1 0 112.50 Nadine de Klerk c Harmanpreet b Deepti 18 19 3 0 94.73 Ayabonga Khaka run out (Deepti/†Ghosh) 1 7 0 0 14.28 Nonkululeko Mlaba not out 0 0 0 0 – Extras (nb 2, w 12) 14 Total (all out; 45.3 overs) 246 23 4 RR: 5.40 Fall of wickets: 1/51 (Brits, 9.3 ov), 2/62 (Bosch, 11.5 ov), 3/114 (Luus, 20.2 ov), 4/123 (Kapp, 22.1 ov), 5/148 (Jafta, 29.3 ov), 6/209 (Dercksen, 39.3 ov), 7/220 (Wolvaardt, 41.1 ov), 8/221 (Tryon, 41.4 ov), 9/246 (Khaka, 44.6 ov), 10/246 (de Klerk, 45.3 ov)   India bowling [18] Bowler Overs Maidens Runs Wickets Econ Wides NBs Renuka Singh 8 0 28 0 3.50 2 0 Kranti Goud 3 0 16 0 5.33 1 0 Amanjot Kaur 4 0 34 0 8.50 0 0 Deepti Sharma 9.3 0 39 5 4.10 1 0 Shree Charani 9 0 48 1 5.33 3 1 Radha Yadav 5 0 45 0 9.00 0 1 Shafali Verma 7 0 36 2 5.14 0 0

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External links

• Series home at ESPN Cricinfo