Australia cantered into the semifinals of the 2025 One Day International Women's Cricket World Cup.

Six wins and one washout from seven games meant that the defending champion finished the pool phase as the only undefeated team left in the tournament.

But in co-hosts India, the Aussies face a semifinal match-up with women's cricket's great stirring giant — a team that has come so far in the past decade, but one that still has so much left to give.

Can India, buoyed by a parochial home-town crowd and familiar Mumbai conditions, reshape the fault lines of international cricket?

Or will Australia's steely serial winners — who look set to welcome back captain and dual centurion from the pool phase Alyssa Healy — continue their march towards yet another title?

And could rain — the pantom

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