Women's World Cup Final Highlights: India new World Champions; Harmanpreet Kaur, Smriti Mandhana overcome with emotions

IND vs SA Live Score, Women's World Cup 2025 Final: Deepti smacks Kapp for a six in the first ball and India get a total of 10 runs from this over.

India W - 185/3 (33)

IND vs SA Live Score, Women's World Cup 2025 Final: Only 2 runs conceded in the 32nd over as Khaka keeps it tight against Harmanpreet (4*) and Deepti (3*).

India W - 175/3 (32)

IND vs SA Live Score, Women's World Cup 2025 Final: OH NO! INDIA ARE CRUMBLING NOW! SOUTH AFRICA THINK THEY HAVE GOT JEMIMAH!

Replays are being checked! Fingers under the ball, she has to leave.

Jemimah ends up sending it to Wolvaardt for a low catch. Fingers were under the ball!

Jemimah c Wolvaardt b Khaka 24 (37)

IND vs SA Live Score, Women's World Cup 2025 Final: Shafali has to depart now! Gets caught by Luus! She doesn't get enough elevation, straight to Luus at mid-off!

Shafali c Luus b KHaka 87 (78)

IND vs SA Live Score, Women's World Cup 2025 Final: FOUR! SHAFALI IS IN 80s NOW! A slow delivery by Khaka, full and outside off. Shafali launches it over extra cover, for a one bounce four!

India W - 158/1 (26)

IND vs SA Live Score, Women's World Cup 2025 Final: A poor delivery by Luus and Shafali goes down the track and smacks it flat, no followthrough, for a six, and it lands right on the boundary ropes. Ends the over with a single.

India W - 151/1 (25)

IND vs SA Live Score, Women's World Cup 2025 Final: DROPPED! IS THIS GOING TO BE COSTLY! Shafali slog sweeps Luus, and hits it bat. Bosch is there, it is a simple catch, and ends up dropping it at deep midwicket! Shafali takes a single and she is at 57* now.

IND vs SA Live Score, Women's World Cup 2025 Final: The 18th over begins with Shafali taking a single and then Mandhana smacks her over mid-off for a four! Then she takes a double, back in strike.

OH NO! CAUGHT BY JAFTA! Tryon sends it on length, outside off. Madhana outside edges it to Jafta for a catch! OPENING STAND BREAKS!

Mandhana c afta b Tryon 45 (58)

Jemimah is the new batter, takes a single. Then Shafali takes a single to end the over and also gets her half-century!

India W - 106/1 (18)

IND vs SA Live Score, Women's World Cup 2025 Final: Luus to bowl the 17th over! Shafali is on strike. midwicket on the boundary. Long on and long off are back.

Starts with a dot, Shafali defends. Then she takes a single, straight down the ground, De Klerk stops a four. She responds with two dots and then Mandhana smacks her for a four, past the empty deep square leg area. Ends the over with a dot.

India W - 97/0 (17)

IND vs SA Live Score, Women's World Cup 2025 Final: A good length ball by De Klerk, on off! Shafail is ready for it, launches it straight down the ground, through the line, for a six! SHOT!

IND vs SA Live Score, Women's World Cup 2025 Final: Mlaba offers width and Mandhana cuts it late, past the fielder at backward point for a four! Then takes a single!

India W - 80/0 (13.5)

IND vs SA Live Score, Women's World Cup 2025 Final: 5 runs conceded by De Klerk in the 13th over. Mandhana (28*) and Verma (35*) will look to accelerate again soon.

India W - 71/0 (13)

IND vs SA Live Score, Women's World Cup 2025 Final: One run leaked in the 10th over as Mlaba keeps it tight. Mandhana (27*) and Verma (29*) are looking good here!

India W - 64/0 (10)

IND vs SA Live Score, Women's World Cup 2025 Final: Six runs leaked in the 7th over as Mandhana (21*) and Shafali (22*) build a good opening partnership. Mandhana also gets a four in this over against Kapp as India get past 50.

India W - 51/0 (7)

IND vs SA Live Score, Women's World Cup 2025 Final: LOVELY! WHAT A COVER DRIVE BY SHAFALI! GOOD TIMING ON THAT SHOT AS WELL! SHE WAITED AND THEN SHOWED THE FULL FACE OF THE BAT!

A good length delivery by Kapp, and Shafali sends it on the up, through cover for a four! Then she gets another four, this time to deep midwicket! Shafali is giving SA an early headache here! Kapp responds with a dot, Shafali defends.

IND vs SA Live Score, Women's World Cup 2025 Final: Mandhana gets her first boundary. A short and wide delivery by Kapp, Mandhana cuts it through the point area for a four! SHOT!

IND vs SA Live Score, Women's World Cup 2025 Final: Shafali attacks right away! A length ball by Khaka and outside off. Shaflai goes down the track and smacks it through the gap at point for a four. Then leg byes, one run. Goes past the wicketkeeper, takes a single. No swing from Khaka and Mandhana drives it to deep point for a single. Khaka responds with a dot. Then she takes a single, guides the ball to midwicket. Khaka gets a dot in the final ball.

India W - 7/0 (2)

IND vs SA Live Score, Women's World Cup 2025 Final: Shafali and Mandhana open for India. Kapp will bowl the opening over for Souh Africa.

IND vs SA Live Score, Women's World Cup 2025 Final: The players are in the middle for their respective national anthems now!

IND vs SA Live Score, Women's World Cup 2025 Final: IND - Shafali Verma, Smriti Mandhana, Jemimah Rodrigues, Harmanpreet Kaur(c), Deepti Sharma, Richa Ghosh(w), Amanjot Kaur, Radha Yadav, Kranti Gaud, Shree Charani, Renuka Singh Thakur

SA - Laura Wolvaardt(c), Tazmin Brits, Anneke Bosch, Sune Luus, Marizanne Kapp, Sinalo Jafta(w), Annerie Dercksen, Chloe Tryon, Nadine de Klerk, Ayabonga Khaka, Nonkululeko Mlaba

IND vs SA Live Score, Women's World Cup 2025 Final: After winning the toss, SA skipper Wolvaardt said, "We are going to bowl first. Bit of rain around and there might be dew later on, hoping for a bit of slippinness early on with all the rain around. We are unchanged from the semis.Big game for us and we are really excited for the opportunity to be here and play in front of a big crowd. We are very confident."

Meanwhile, India skipper Harmanpreet said, "We were looking to bowl looking at the overhead conditions. We will try to bat well and put up a decent score. I don't think there will be much on the pitch after 5-6 overs. We are going with the same team.We had 2 days to recover after the semis and everyone is looking forward to this game."

IND vs SA Live Score, Women's World Cup 2025 Final: It is toss time! Both skippers are in the middle, Harmanpreet calls heads! Wolvaardt wins the toss and opts to bowl!

IND vs SA Live Score, Women's World Cup 2025 Final: The Indian players are in the field now, warming up ahead of toss. The weather is clear now.

IND vs SA Live Score, Women's World Cup 2025 Final: The toss will be at 4:32 PM, and the match will start at 5 PM if there is no rain. But the covers are back on again, as precaution.

IND vs SA Live Score, Women's World Cup 2025 Final: Good news folks! The rain has stopped and its brighter now! The groundstaff are coming out with the super sopper.