Ravichandran Ashwin, the legendary spin bowling all-rounder of the Indian nationwide cricket staff, performed a significant position in Harmanpreet Kaur’s staff’s victory within the ICC Ladies’s Cricket World Cup 2025.
Ravichandran Ashwin mentioned the Indian ladies’s nationwide cricket staff’s victory within the 2025 ICC Ladies’s Cricket World Cup is greater than its victories within the ICC Males’s Cricket World Cup in 1983 and 2011.
India defeated South Africa in an exhilarating match
The South African Ladies’s Nationwide Cricket Staff and the Indian Ladies’s Nationwide Cricket Staff confronted one another within the World Cup remaining on the Dr. Di Patil Sports activities Academy in Navi Mumbai.
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After being invited to bat first, India posted a very good rating of 298/7 on the board, with Shafali Verma taking middle stage with the bat, scoring an attacking 87 runs together with seven fours and two sixes off 78 balls.
Deepti Sharma scored a superb half-century whereas Smriti Mandhana (45), Richa Ghosh (34), Jemima Rodriguez (24) and Harmanpreet Kaur (20) contributed with essential runs.
Defending the goal India’s bowlers have been primarily troubled by Laura Wolvaardt, who hit arduous, however Deepti Sharma dismissed her and 4 extra batsmen to crush South Africa for 246 and assist India win the World Cup.
I really think about this an excellent greater and large achievement – Ravichandran Ashwin
Whereas the favored perception is that the 2025 World Cup win might be India’s 1983 second in ladies’s cricket, Ravichandran Ashwin believes in any other case, saying it’s an excellent greater occasion.
“Harmanpreet Kaur has been rolling the ball in many alternative methods from 2009 until now. But, when she misplaced three tournaments, folks raised doubts about her captaincy. And I used to be shocked. What a comeback from such a poor place… Years in the past, Ambati Rayudu was a member of the Hyderabad Gymkhana Suss. He was enjoying on the stadium. That was in 2017/18. The stadium was packed as a result of he was already a sensation. However nobody knew that. Mithali Raj, who was the captain of the Indian ladies’s staff on the time, was additionally practising on the identical venue. And look the place we at the moment are.
“I actually wish to name this an incredible achievement, even greater than any World Cup we have received earlier than, as a result of this event will encourage women to play this sport and think about this sport as a profession possibility,” he mentioned on his YouTube channel.
This is a crucial sufficient achievement to be made right into a film – Ravichandran Ashwin
Ravichandran Ashwin additional mentioned that India’s victory within the Ladies’s World Cup deserves a correct eight-episode documentary.
“That is such an essential achievement that administrators and producers could make it into a movie. However they’ve to alter the best way the story is instructed. You may’t present that India received due to one or two gamers. That is not doable.”
“Folks will all the time speak about Smriti Mandhana, Shafali Verma and Harmanpreet. However I wish to see the story of Amol Muzumdar and Shree Chalani and the way she stood her floor. Keep in mind, she I wasn’t a part of this challenge till now. I am wanting ahead to seeing such a small story instructed in an eight-episode documentary with passionate sports activities storytelling, as a result of it is a really particular story,” added Ravichandran Ashwin.
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