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IND vs NZ Live Score, Women’s World Cup 2025:In what is sort of a virtual quarter-final, New Zealand won the toss and chose to bowl first. India posted 340 runs in 49 overs, centuries from Smriti Mandhana and Pratika Rawal as well as an unbeaten knock of 76 from Jemmimah Rodrigues. The game saw a stoppage of 1.5 hours due to rain due to which one over was lost.
Updated Oct 23, 2025, 20:13 IST
INDIA VS NEW ZEALAND WOMEN WC
UPDATE – 8.15 pm IST (2.35 pm GMT) – Good news! The covers are coming off now, which means that the rain has stopped. The umpires and the ground staff are in a deep conversation in the center, while the Indian players look pretty relax at the sidelines near their dugout. Okay, the two umpires are walking off the field now, probably to inform the two captains about the revised playing conditions. Harmanpreet Kaur and Sophie Devine join the conference now and are being fed with the latest updates.
Game stopped due to : Wet Ground Condition
Game stopped due to : Rain Stoppage
UPDATE – 8.06 pm IST (2.36 pm GMT) – Uh, oh! It seems like more covers are now coming on. The drizzle still seems to be fairly light but steady but the ground staff are just taking a bit more caution and we might see a further reduced game in terms of overs.
Well, well, look who’s back? The drizzle, of course! We were all set for the run chase to get underway but the heavens have opened up again and the ground staff have brought on the big cover for the pitch. However, it seems like a light drizzle and the Indian players can be seen eagerly waiting around the ropes. Let’s hope it doesn’t turn into a proper shower. Stay tuned for more updates.
… The Run Chase …
Right then, it is a quick turnaround before the chase begins and New Zealand Women have it all to do. They will require their prolific veteran duo of Sophie Devine and Suzie Bates to shine if they are to keep their semifinal hopes alive. India Women, on the other hand, have set the game up brilliantly but they will be aware of what happened against Australia when they set a similar total and wouldn’t want to repeat their mistakes. So, strap in as we should see an engrossing run chase soon.
India’s Pratika Rawal is up for a chat with Julia Price. She admits that she didn’t know about being the joint-fastest to reach 1000 ODI runs. Adds that she just wanted to bat as long as she could, and that’s been her mindset coming into this World Cup. Feels that she struggled to time the ball initially, but held her head down and batted through. Expresses her happiness to end on a good note for the side.
Jemimah Rodrigues, who came back into the Playing XI for India, was sent up at number 3 and she wasted no time in getting going. She added 76 runs for the 2nd wicket with Pratika Rawal, who ended up notching up her maiden World Cup hundred and also became the joint fastest to reach 1000 ODI runs in terms of innings. Rawal fell but Rodrigues carried on and ended up with a sublime 76 not out off just 55 balls. There was a hefty shower of rain which delayed proceedings and after a long break, India managed to come back out and finish with a huge total on the board.
New Zealand toiled hard in the field but the lengths bowled by their bowlers were a tad on the shorter side and Mandhana made merry of all the loose deliveries going on to notch up a century after surviving an LBW scare. New Zealand did manage to get rid of Mandhana but by then, she had added 212 big runs along with Rawal.
The first innings started with Rosemary Mair and Jess Kerr bowling 5 very quiet overs but Devine opted to make early changes in the bowling and soon enough, the Indian openers started to find their rhythm. The next 10 overs after the Powerplay were decisive as Smriti Mandhana and Pratika Rawal scored 75 runs in that phase and took the game away from the Kiwis.
A statement with the bat from hosts India and they have put on a stellar total of 340 on the board against the White Ferns in what is a virtual quarter-final. Sophie Devine will be disappointed as it was her call to put India into bat and New Zealand simply couldn’t get in the game with the ball in hand.
48.6: Rosemary Mair to Richa Ghosh, EDGED, FOUR! India Women will take that. Back of a length, slightly outside off, Richa Ghosh flashes hard at it from the crease and gets a thick, healthy outside edge. The ball flies through the vacant first slip and races behind to the fence. 11 runs off the final over. INDIA WOMEN FINISH WITH 340/3 ON THE BOARD!
Richa Ghosh walks out to face the final legal delivery of the innings.
48.5: Rosemary Mair to Harmanpreet Kaur, OUT! CAUGHT! Mair dismisses the Indian skipper. On a length, outside off, skidding through the deck, Harmanpreet Kaur hangs back and tries to cut it square, but ends up hitting it flat off the toe end, and to the left of Eden Carson. At backward point, Carson dives full-length to her left and snaffles it cleanly. Harmanpreet Kaur departs for 10 (11).
48.4: Rosemary Mair to Jemimah Rodrigues, Almost a yorker, on the leg stump, Jemimah Rodrigues shuffles to remain leg side and carves it through mid off for a single.
48.3: Rosemary Mair to Jemimah Rodrigues, DROPPED AND FOUR! Full and just outside off, Jemimah Rodrigues launches it to the left of long off, where Maddy Green runs in that direction, even gets both hands dragged to the left to catch it, but the ball just pops out and goes one bounce into the ropes.
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