India has made a history. For the first time ever, India women’s cricket team has won the ICC Women’s World Cup. In the final, Richa Ghosh played a very important knocks and made crucial contribution behind the team success.
Richa Ghosh made history
India’s highest score in a final: India made history by scoring 298/7 against South Africa in the 2025 final. This is India’s highest score in any World Cup final and the second-highest score in a Women’s ODI World Cup final overall. Only Australia’s 356/5 against England in 2022 is the highest score ever. This performance by India is a testament to the team’s strong and balanced batting. Players like Shafali Verma, Smriti Mandhana, Deepti Sharma, and Richa Ghosh displayed remarkable composure under pressure.
Richa overcome Harmanpreet Kaur
Richa surpassed Harmanpreet Kaur to become the Indian batsman with the most sixes in a single edition of the Women’s World Cup. Harmanpreet had hit a total of 11 sixes in the 2017 World Cup, but Richa surpassed the captain’s mark with 12 in the current tournament. At the same time, in the current edition too, Richa is ahead of everyone overall. Richa has hit the maximum number of sixes in the Women’s World Cup 2025.
However, in all the editions combined, Richa is the batsman who has hit the maximum number of sixes overall. Like Richa, Adrianra Dottin had hit 12 sixes in 2013. Most runs have been scored in the last nine overs in the tournament. Richa has scored the most runs between 41-50 overs in the Women’s World Cup. She has scored 165 runs during this period.
She has scored 185 runs at a strike rate of 17, while Nadine de Klerk has scored 119 runs at a strike rate of 160.81. Jemimah is third in this regard, scoring 110 runs at a strike rate of 146.66. This means that Richa has achieved many achievements with her innings on Sunday.