South Africa skipper Laura Wolvaardt was at a loss of words explaining her agony at losing wickets to a part-time bowler like Shafali Verma in their ICC Women’s World Cup final against India.

Playing their third ODI World Cup summit clash, SA had earlier lost two T20 World Cup finals to Australia and New Zealand in 2023 and 2024 respectively.

India, meanwhile, ended their wait for the elusive World Cup title becoming third time lucky after losing in the 2017 ODI World Cup final and 2020 T20 WC final.

The South Africans were on their way to mounting a stiff challenge when Shafali struck out of the blue scalping the wickets of Sune Luus and Marizanne Kapp.

The twin strikes dealt a body blow to South Africa’s chances of lifting the World Cup as all the work ultimately fell in the hands of

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