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In the coveted final of the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup (CWC) 2025, co-hosts India will be taking on South Africa at DY Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai on Sunday, November 2. The winner of the grand finale will become the first-time world champion in women’s cricket history in the 50-overs format after India made it for the third-time while it’s going to be the first appearance for South Africa in it.
India and South Africa have already met in the league stage of the tournament in Visakhapatnam and it was more than just a close game in the Women’s One Day International (WODI) format. The South African women’s cricket team defeated India by three wickets with seven balls, chasing down the 251-run total after finding themselves in deep trouble and nearly out of the contest at one stage in pursuit of the target.
ICC has kept a reserve day for Women's CWC 2025 final between India and South Africa
With that, it is hard to expect which team out of India and South Africa will come out on top in the final of the ICC Women’s CWC 2025 on Sunday but if the weather forecast for Sunday turns out to be true, then the play might get interrupted in Navi Mumbai. If the play gets washed out on November 2 at the DY Patil Stadium, then the ICC has kept a reserve day on Monday, November 3, to get the final completed from where it gets left off a day prior.
Although, if the required number of overs to constitute a WODI aren’t bowled on matchday and reserve day due to a wash out, then the World Cup trophy will be shared between India and South Africa as they will be crowned joint-winners of the 2025 edition of the tournament. Nobody will want such a great tourney, played in India and Sri Lanka, to end on a sour note, which is why hopefully the weather will abate enough for the final to go on smoothly.
The final of the ICC Women’s CWC 2025 is widely being looked as the biggest match in the history of women’s cricket and it could turn out to be the case if India and South Africa put on a clinic just like their league stage contest earlier in the tournament.
