Navi Mumbai, Oct. 24 -- It was not just a win. It was a proclamation. Under the floodlights of Dr DY Patil Sports Academy here tonight, India Women announced their arrival among the last four of the ICC Women's World Cup 2025 - not with caution or calculation, but with fire, flair, and finality.
The rain came and went, the overs shrank to 44, but India's ambition did not. They set New Zealand 325 under DLS arithmetic, a mountain wrapped in mist, and then scaled it for them, brick by brick, wicket by wicket, until Deepti Sharma bowled the last ball of the night, and Rosemary Mair miscued the slog-sweep into the waiting hands of Smriti Mandhana at long-on.
Forty four overs. That was the timestamp of triumph. The moment India sealed their se...