Explained: How India qualified for Women's World Cup 2025 semifinals even though New Zealand can still reach 6 points – sportingnews.com

Devansh Poddar
The 2025 Women’s Cricket World Cup has finally confirmed its four semi-finalists after India defeated New Zealand. The Women in Blue won by 53 runs at the DY Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai to confirm their spot in the knockouts. 
India dominated with the bat, posting 340/3 in 49 overs as Indian openers Smriti Mandhana and Pratika Rawal smashed centuries, while Jemimah Rodrigues scored 76 on her return to the playing XI. 
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The Indian bowlers backed up the efforts of their batters, restricting New Zealand to 271/8 in 44 overs and securing an emphatic win in a rain affected match. 
While India has officially qualified for the semi-finals with 6 points, New Zealand can still equal the hosts in terms of points but the Black Ferns still cannot make it to the next stage. 
In this article, we take a look at how India qualified for the Women’s World Cup 2025 semifinals, even though New Zealand can still reach 6 points.
As per the ICC Tournament rules, if teams are tied on points, the team with the greater number of wins will qualify for the knockouts, and net run rate won’t be considered. 
While New Zealand can reach a total of six points with a win in their last encounter, they have only won a single game in this World Cup, while two of their games have ended with no result.
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Team India, on the other hand, has won three out of their six games and is clearly ahead in the win margin, and has hence fixed their spot in the World Cup Semi-finals. 
The two Semi-Finals of the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup will be played on October 29 and October 30, respectively.
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