Can India fight Australia and the ghosts of the past to achieve ultimate glory?

No team has won more ODI matches than the women of India in 2025. When entering the 2025 women’s cricket World Cup, women in blue are comfortably placed as the second favorites. Solid players and home advantage give them an advantage over the entire opposition, excluding Australia.

What to expect

In the past 21 months, India women have raised excellence in ODI Cricket. In their team, they have the largest scorer of Smriti Mandhana and the largest deepti Sharma counter. The Department of Strikers has coherent strikers like Pratika Rawal, someone who has on average more than 50 since its beginnings.

Deepti also has an average of more than 50 with the bat and has increased its strike rate to more than 90. Jemimah Rodrigues and Richa Ghosh will be the attackers, because the only striker with a striking rate of more than 100. Harleen Doel has not succeeded. The last remaining is Harmanpreet Kaur, who is undoubtedly the best dough to play in the history of the Women’s Cricket World Cup in India.

Coming to bowling, Sneh Rana has been exceptional in Deepti since she returned to the configuration in April. Renuka Singh is one of the best powerfuls of power, but she is a injury. But the fallout afterwards are huge.

The other quisors who have taken more than 10 counters in ODI since 2024 are Priya Mishra, Kranti Goud and Arundhati Reddy. Priya is not selected, Kranti only played 8 international games and Arundhati did not play much, and she recently injured in the warm -up match.

Big question: Can India beat Australia?

The largest roadblock between India and the Women’s Cricket World Cup trophy is Australia Women. In addition to being champions of 7 times, they also defend their title. Their domination is well known. But India will have a certain belief. Earlier this month, India women beat Australia with 102 points.

It was the greatest defeat of Australia to margin never underway in Cricket Odi. Yes, India lost the series, but they gave the best team in the world a race for their money. Since Meg Lanning retired, there have been a few binks in armor. Alyssa Captain Healy was not great. There is a slight over-dependence on the coherent races of Elysis and Ellysis Perry.

So, although beating Australia is difficult, it is not the Herculean task, it was 3 years ago.

Ghosts of the past and weakness

Players like Harmanpreet, Smriti and Deepti have tasted the worst defeat of the 2017 Women’s Cricket World Cup final against England. Although it hurts me, they know things to do and not do if they reach the stage with direct elimination. Others, however, are quite experienced. They could hug when the big moment arrives.

In addition to inexperience, there are a few other problems. Strike rotations, striking rate, operation between the counters, and the largest of all, aligning. Pratika starts well, but slows down, while it is the full opposite for Doel. The first fight after power to get these simple easy, and the same thing happens for the latter when it happens in the middle.

Deepti, Richa, Pratika and Harmanpreet are all subject to brain receivables during the race. Some of them, like Deepti and Richa, are not as fast either between the counters. This has also been highlighted against Australia.

Coming to the aligning part, India was one of the worst field teams in 2025. Only Zimbabwe and the United States have a worse capture record than women in blue. Against Australia, they also lost more than 10 catches in 3 games. In the biggest games, the margin is small, and an extraordinary or bad effort on the field can change the game.