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The Board of Control for Cricket successful India (BCCI) caput Devajit Saikia announced a currency prize of ₹51 crore for the ICC Women’s World Cup-winning Team India.
Team India yet enactment the heartbreaks of the 2005 and 2017 World Cup finals down them arsenic they bushed South Africa to unafraid their maiden satellite rubric crossed ODI and T20I formats.
Speaking to ANI, Mr. Saikia said, “In 1983, Kapil Dev brought astir a caller epoch and encouragement successful cricket by making India triumph the World Cup. The aforesaid excitement and encouragement has been introduced by the women today. Harmanpreet Kaur and her squad person not conscionable won the trophy today, they person won the hearts of each Indians. They person paved the mode for the adjacent procreation of women cricketers... Women’s cricket already reached its adjacent level erstwhile our squad defeated Australia successful the semifinals...”
“Since Jay Shah took complaint of the BCCI (serving arsenic caput of BCCI from 2019 to 2024), helium has brought astir galore transformations successful women’s cricket. Pay parity was besides addressed. Last month, ICC Chairman Jay Shah accrued women’s prize wealth by 300%. Earlier, the prize wealth was $2.88 million, and present it has been accrued to $14 million. All these steps person greatly promoted women’s cricket. BCCI has besides announced a reward prize of ₹51 crores for the full team- players, coaches, and enactment staff,” helium added.
Coming to the match, South Africa won the flip and opted to vessel first. A period concern betwixt Smriti Mandhana (45 successful 58 balls, with 8 fours) and Shafali Verma kick-started things for India, followed by different 62-run basal betwixt Shafali (87 successful 78 balls, with 7 fours and 2 sixes) and Jemimah Rodrigues (24 successful 37 balls, with a four). India was astatine a good level of 166/2.
A 52-run basal betwixt skipper Harmanpreet Kaur (20 successful 29 balls, with 2 fours) and Deepti Sharma took India beyond the 200-run mark. A last flourish by Deepti (58 successful 58 balls, with 3 fours and a six) and Richa Ghosh (34 successful 24 balls, with 3 fours and 2 sixes) helped India scope 298/7 successful their 50 overs.
Ayabonga Khaka (3/58) was the starring wicket-taker for SA.
During the run-chase, a fifty-run basal started things for SA, with Tazmin Brits (23 successful 35 balls, with 2 fours and a six) being the archetypal victim. Eventually, contempt skipper Laura Wolvaardt’s dominance, the aureate arms of Shafali Verma (2/36) and Shree Charani reduced SA to 148/5.
Wolvaardt had a 61-run basal for the sixth-wicket with Annerie Dercksen (37 successful 35 balls, with a 4 and 2 sixes), which dilatory started to rebuild unit connected India. Wolvaardt (101 successful 98 balls, with 11 fours and a six) continued her red-hot form, bringing up her period aft having registered 169 against England successful the semifinal conscionable a fewer days back. However, a game-changing spell from Deepti removed some acceptable batters and had Proteas struggling astatine 221/8. She became the archetypal Indian pistillate with a WC last four-fer. Deepti (5/39) yet managed to person it into a fiver, arsenic India made past to triumph their maiden WC rubric by bundling retired SA for 246 runs.
