India vs Australia – Women’s Cricket World Cup 2025: Teams, tickets, venue

Who: India vs Australia
What: ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup 2025 radical stage
When: Sunday, October 12 astatine 3pm (09:30 GMT)
Where: Dr YS Rajasekhara Reddy ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium, Visakhapatnam, India
How to follow: Al Jazeera Sport volition person unrecorded build-up from 07:00 GMT earlier our substance commentary watercourse for the action.

India volition anticipation for a speedy instrumentality to winning ways erstwhile they conscionable defending champions Australia successful a blockbuster clash astatine the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup 2025 connected Sunday.

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Both teams began the tourney arsenic favourites, but Australia clasp a definite borderline successful the lucifer arsenic grounds seven-time satellite champions and the lone undefeated squad aft the archetypal 3 group-stage matches.

Meanwhile, India were handed their archetypal nonaccomplishment of the World Cup erstwhile South Africa pulled disconnected a stunning turnaround successful a three-wicket triumph connected Thursday.

All 15,087 tickets for the eagerly awaited clash were sold retired earlier successful the week, indicating immense involvement successful what is present seen arsenic 1 of the apical rivalries successful women’s cricket.

India vs Australia rivalry ‘continues to grow’

Australia’s skipper Alyssa Healy admitted the involvement successful the Australia-India rivalry “continues to grow”, and that Australia volition beryllium taking connected the “sleeping giant” of women’s cricket.

“They’ve [India] been a sleeping elephantine successful the women’s crippled for a agelong play of time,” Healy said connected Saturday.

The wicketkeeper-batter highlighted the relation of the Women’s Premier League T20 franchise tourney successful helping India unearth endowment and fig retired a benignant of play that suits them.

While Australia haven’t mislaid a lucifer successful the tournament, they person recovered from wobbly situations to station 2 wins successful their 2 completed matches.

“You’re going to beryllium enactment nether the pump successful unfamiliar conditions, against unfamiliar sides astatine times,” Healy explained.

“We’re allowed to suffer games of cricket and beryllium enactment nether unit successful World Cups, and I truly backmost the extent successful our side,” she said erstwhile asked to remark connected Australia’s batting slump against Pakistan connected Wednesday.

“We’re fortunate that it’s been a antithetic idiosyncratic each clip that stuck their manus up and said, yep, I’ve got this, I tin get america to a full oregon I tin instrumentality the wickets to restrict the team.”

Despite their unmatched grounds successful women’s cricket, Healy said India volition beryllium “a existent threat” playing successful their location conditions.

India bushed Australia successful the semifinal of the Women’s World Cup 2017 successful England [File: Rui Vieira/AP]

India not dwelling connected loss

India’s all-rounder Sneh Rana believes her squad tin bounce backmost rapidly aft the nonaccomplishment to South Africa, arsenic they don’t dwell connected losses and absorption connected the adjacent situation instead.

“We regroup, we survey the match, program however to improve, instrumentality the positives, and look guardant to the adjacent game,” Rana said connected the eve of the Australia match.

She termed the Australians “one of the strongest competitors” but was speedy to item the information that India person beaten the satellite champions successful the (2017) World Cup arsenic good arsenic their caller bilateral series.

For the hosts, 1 of the large areas of interest volition beryllium the deficiency of large scores from their top-rated batter Smriti Mandhana.

The left-handed opener has scored a satellite grounds 972 runs successful women’s one-day internationals (ODIs) successful 2025, but her apical people successful the tourney stands astatine 23.

In fact, nary of India’s apical batters diagnostic among the tournament’s apical 5 run-scorers frankincense far, with wicketkeeper Richa Ghosh successful 4th spot with 131 runs.

Rana, however, said the squad is not disquieted astir the deficiency of runs from the top.

“We person immoderate of the champion batters successful the world, and it’s conscionable a substance of 1 bully sound [before they people big].”

Smriti Mandhana has scored 54 runs successful her 3 innings successful the Women’s Cricket World Cup 2025 [Anupam Nath/AP]

India vs Australia: Head-to-head successful ODIs

Despite the comparatively debased frequence of women’s planetary matches successful past decades, India and Australia person faced each different successful 59 ODIs.

Australia predominate the head-to-head number with 48 wins compared with India’s 11.

Form guide: India

The hosts won their archetypal 2 matches of the World Cup comprehensively earlier crashing to a nonaccomplishment against South Africa. Their pre-tournament signifier has been mixed, with a bid nonaccomplishment to Australia astatine location and an distant bid triumph against England.

Last 5 matches (latest effect first): L W W L W

Form guide: Australia

Australia person won 2 of their 3 matches successful the World Cup, with their fixture against Sri Lanka abandoned owed to mediocre weather.

Apart from the 1 nonaccomplishment against India successful September, Australia person not mislaid an ODI since September 2024.

Last 5 matches (latest effect first): W W W L W

Team news: India

India whitethorn privation to swap a spinner for a gait bowler, successful which lawsuit Shree Charani could marque mode for Renuka Singh Thakur.

Predicted XI: Pratika Rawal, Smriti Mandhana, Harleen Deol, Harmanpreet Kaur (captain), Jemimah Rodrigues, Deepti Sharma, Richa Ghosh (wicketkeeper), Amanjot Kaur, Sneh Rana, Kranti Goud, Shree Charani/Renuka Singh Thakur.

Team news: Australia

Australia person hinted astatine a instrumentality for Sophie Molineux, who could regenerate Georgia Wareham.

Predicted XI : Alyssa Healy (captain, wicketkeeper), Phoebe Litchfield, Ellyse Perry, Beth Mooney, Annabel Sutherland, Ashleigh Gardner, Tahlia McGrath, Georgia Wareham/Sophie Molineux, Kim Garth, Alana King, Megan Schutt.