The Indian Women's cricket team faced their first defeat in the tournament, devastatingly. Richa Ghosh took the spotlight in the first innings, but Nadine de Klerk stole the show as well as the game from India in the second innings.
South Africa Women's team won the match by 3 wickets. South Africa Women's team scored 252 runs and won the match while 7 balls remained. The Indian team scored 251 runs.
On Thursday, October 9, the Indian team made a stunning comeback in their Women's World Cup 2025 match in Visakhapatnam in the first innings, all thanks to the eighth batter, Richa Ghosh.
India mostly recovered a competitive total against South Africa, and the 22-year-old Richa Ghosh made a lively 94 runs following yet another top-order collapse. In her 77-ball innings (11×4, 4×6), Ghosh scored her seventh ODI fifty and demonstrated to the World how to take advantage of a relatively slow pitch.
Richa broke a number of records in the process. The first cricket player batting at number one is Richa, to score 80 or more in a women's ODI match, or 8 or fewer. Earlier in 2025, Chloe Tryon's 74 runs against Sri Lanka in Colombo set the previous record. The fastest Indian player to reach 1,000 runs in women's ODIs is now Richa Ghosh.
