It takes only a day for an excellent cricketer to become a legend: Deepti Sharma took on that status on Sunday, as India beat South Africa by 52 runs to clinch the 2025 Women’s World Cup at the Dr DY Patil Sports Academy in Navi Mumbai. The all-rounder scored a run-a-ball 58 with the bat in the first innings and bookended it with a brilliant five-wicket haul in the final, which included the last three scalps.

With the stats, she became the first player, man or woman, to score a half-century and take five wickets in a World Cup knockout match. She also became the first to achieve a double of 200-plus runs and 20-plus wickets in a single ODI World Cup edition, Men’s or Women’s, with her tally of 215 runs and 22 wickets (which is also the second best in the tournament history) overall in the

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