Women’s Cricket World Cup 2025 final already makes history

MUMBAI: The 2025 edition of the Women’s Cricket World Cup has already made history as the tournament final will not feature Australia or England, as both teams have played all the final games of the previous editions.

This will be the first Women’s World Cup final in the 52-year history, which will feature India and South Africa, but not Australia and England.

Since 1973, the Women’s CWC has been held 12 times, in which one of the teams from Australia or England has definitely reached the final.

The final between India and South Africa will be played on Sunday, November 2, at DY Patil Stadium, Navi Mumbai.

Earlier, in the first semi-final of the World Cup 2025, South Africa defeated England to reach the final for the first time, while in the second semi-final, India defeated defending champions Australia, making a spot in the grand finale.

The second semi-final was also historic as India dealt Australia their first defeat in 16 ODI World Cup matches.

Faced with a record run-chase in women’s ODIs, India rode on an unbeaten 127 from Rodrigues and an 89 from Harmanpreet to hunt down their target of 339 with nine balls to spare.

The Indian team has been the runner-up twice before, but this will be South Africa’s first final, which makes it certain that the winner of the World Cup this time will be a new team.

It should be noted that the Australian team has won the title a record 7 times. England has won the title 4 times and New Zealand once.