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IND W vs NZ W Live Score Women’s World Cup: India’s captain Harmanpreet Kaur, right, and Smriti Mandhana run between the wickets.
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IND W vs NZ W Live Score Women’s World Cup: India take on New Zealand in a virtual knockout fixture, at the 2025 Women’s World Cup in Navi Mumbai on Thursday. Pressure is mounting on the hosts, who have fallen to three successive defeats. Harmanpreet Kaur and Co. have managed only two scrappy wins and four points in five games. India’s tactical weakness is more visible now and against New Zealand, rain could also play a factor. For New Zealand, the need to win the match is higher, and they have also been unlucky with rain, with two games getting washed out. The game against India is a must-win match, and India also need to clinch victory, if they want to qualify for the semis.
Speaking ahead of the match, India head coach Amol Muzumdar opened up on dropping Jemimah Rodrigues. He said, “It was one of the tough calls. Given the circumstances, given the conditions in Indore, we opted for the sixth bowling option. That’s why one of the batters had to sit out just looking at that combination. She took it really well – that’s what Jemi is all about. She’s fantastic within the group, a superb role model for everyone in the team. She took it really nicely and very sportingly. I appreciate that. But, we’ve decided to go on a match-by-match basis. The conditions in Indore were different. The conditions here in Navi Mumbai are different. We’ll have a good discussion in the evening, and we’ll take a fair call on what we want to do. Hopefully, or maybe, the combination will be different.”
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Speaking ahead of the match, India head coach Amol Muzumdar opened up on dropping Jemimah Rodrigues. He said, “It was one of the tough calls. Given the circumstances, given the conditions in Indore, we opted for the sixth bowling option. That’s why one of the batters had to sit out just looking at that combination. She took it really well – that’s what Jemi is all about. She’s fantastic within the group, a superb role model for everyone in the team. She took it really nicely and very sportingly. I appreciate that. But, we’ve decided to go on a match-by-match basis. The conditions in Indore were different. The conditions here in Navi Mumbai are different. We’ll have a good discussion in the evening, and we’ll take a fair call on what we want to do. Hopefully, or maybe, the combination will be different.”
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Oct 23, 2025 3:10 PM IST
IND W vs NZ W Live Score Women’s World Cup: Maiden over
IND W vs NZ W Live Score Women’s World Cup: Maiden over by Kerr. Keeps it tight against Mandhana and Rawal, and the batters haven’t opened their scoring yet.
Oct 23, 2025 3:05 PM IST
IND W vs NZ W Live Score Women’s World Cup: Cautious start!
IND W vs NZ W Live Score Women’s World Cup: Two runs conceded in the opening over. It was due to leg byes, Mandhana and Rawal start cautiously!
IND W – 2/0 (1)
Oct 23, 2025 3:01 PM IST
IND W vs NZ W Live Score Women’s World Cup: Action begins!
IND W vs NZ W Live Score Women’s World Cup: The action begins! Rawal and Mandhana open for India. Mair to bowl the opening over for NZ.
Oct 23, 2025 2:58 PM IST
IND W vs NZ W Live Score Women’s World Cup: National anthems!
IND W vs NZ W Live Score Women’s World Cup: Time for national anthems! Both teams are in the middle now!
Oct 23, 2025 2:51 PM IST
IND W vs NZ W Live Score Women’s World Cup: Playing XIs
IND W vs NZ W Live Score Women’s World Cup: IND – Smriti Mandhana, Harleen Deol, Harmanpreet Kaur(c), Jemimah Rodrigues, Deepti Sharma, Richa Ghosh(w), Sneh Rana, Kranti Gaud, Shree Charani, Renuka Singh Thakur
NZ – Suzie Bates, Georgia Plimmer, Amelia Kerr, Sophie Devine(c), Brooke Halliday, Maddy Green, Isabella Gaze(w), Jess Kerr, Rosemary Mair, Lea Tahuhu, Eden Carson
Oct 23, 2025 2:50 PM IST
IND W vs NZ W Live Score Women’s World Cup: What did the captains say?
IND W vs NZ W Live Score Women’s World Cup: Speaking after winning the toss, NZ skipper Devine said, “We’re going to the bowl first today. We don’t think the surface will change too much. If anything, it might hopefully get better under lights and maybe with a bit of dew coming in. I don’t think it’s going to change much. We’ve still been training exceptionally hard and we’ve got to have trust in the work that we’ve done. A couple of extra sessions isn’t going to change too much for what we’ve got as a group. So for us, fresh is best. We obviously haven’t played as much cricket, especially with the bat. But it’s left us really excited and chomping at the bit to be able to get out here and hopefully get a full 100 overs in today. This is the moment that all cricketers want to be playing in high-pressure situations, playing in India at a World Cup, it doesn’t get much better than this. We’re really excited about it. We certainly know the challenge that’s ahead of us. But this is what you want to be taking on as a high-performance athlete. Going with the same XI today.”
Meanwhile, Harmanpreet said, “The pitch is looking really good and I think we have got a great opportunity, today we have added extra batters. So I think it’s a great opportunity to set a decent total on the board.Jemimah is in for Amanjot.It was a little disappointing for all of us because we have been playing good cricket but unfortunately we were not able to get the result. But today is a very important game and we all want to enjoy this moment and play good cricket. We are getting starts but unfortunately we are able to make it big. But today is a great opportunity and we are looking for everyone to do well for the team.”
Oct 23, 2025 2:48 PM IST
IND W vs NZ W Live Score Women’s World Cup: NZ win the toss
IND W vs NZ W Live Score Women’s World Cup: NZ win the toss! NZ opt to bowl.
Oct 23, 2025 2:43 PM IST
IND W vs NZ W Live Score Women’s World Cup: Huge milestone beckons Bates
IND W vs NZ W Live Score Women’s World Cup: Bates is 67 runs away from becoming the second-leading run-scorer in ODIs. She needs 75 to reach 6000 runs in the format.
Oct 23, 2025 2:37 PM IST
IND W vs NZ W Live Score Women’s World Cup: Poorest win-loss ratio
IND W vs NZ W Live Score Women’s World Cup: India have the poorest win-loss ratio for any side in the ODI World Cup history vs NZ.
Oct 23, 2025 2:25 PM IST
IND W vs NZ W Live Score Women’s World Cup: Unlucky New Zealand
IND W vs NZ W Live Score Women’s World Cup: NZ have been poor in this tournament and have began their campaign with two losses. They got their win against Bangladesh and then had two washouts.
Oct 23, 2025 2:20 PM IST
IND W vs NZ W Live Score Women’s World Cup: Will see Renuka in the playing XI?
IND W vs NZ W Live Score Women’s World Cup: India abandoned their five bowlers plan and included Renuka for the England fixture, and Jemimah was benched. Could we see the same plan today?
Oct 23, 2025 2:00 PM IST
IND W vs NZ W Live Score Women’s World Cup: What did India’s head coach say?
IND W vs NZ W Live Score Women’s World Cup: Speaking ahead of the match, India head coach Muzumdar said, “It was one of the tough calls. Given the circumstances, given the conditions in Indore, we opted for the sixth bowling option. That’s why one of the batters had to sit out just looking at that combination. She took it really well – that’s what Jemi is all about. She’s fantastic within the group, a superb role model for everyone in the team. She took it really nicely and very sportingly. I appreciate that. But, we’ve decided to go on a match-by-match basis. The conditions in Indore were different. The conditions here in Navi Mumbai are different. We’ll have a good discussion in the evening, and we’ll take a fair call on what we want to do. Hopefully, or maybe, the combination will be different.”
Oct 23, 2025 1:50 PM IST
IND W vs NZ W Live Score Women’s World Cup: IND squad
IND W vs NZ W Live Score Women’s World Cup: Pratika Rawal, Smriti Mandhana, Harleen Deol, Harmanpreet Kaur(c), Deepti Sharma, Richa Ghosh(w), Amanjot Kaur, Sneh Rana, Kranti Gaud, Shree Charani, Renuka Singh Thakur, Jemimah Rodrigues, Radha Yadav, Arundhati Reddy, Uma Chetry
Oct 23, 2025 1:35 PM IST
IND W vs NZ W Live Score Women’s World Cup: NZ squad
IND W vs NZ W Live Score Women’s World Cup: Suzie Bates, Georgia Plimmer, Amelia Kerr, Sophie Devine(c), Brooke Halliday, Maddy Green, Isabella Gaze(w), Jess Kerr, Rosemary Mair, Bree Illing, Eden Carson, Lea Tahuhu, Hannah Rowe, Polly Inglis, Bella James
Oct 23, 2025 1:32 PM IST
IND W vs NZ W Live Score Women’s World Cup: What did Sophie Devine say?
IND W vs NZ W Live Score Women’s World Cup: Speaking ahead of the match, NZ’s Devine said, “I’m not surprised, to be honest. I expect there to be rain everywhere we go at the moment, but you can’t control the weather. We’ll deal with it if it comes. There’s no point worrying about it. I mean, yeah, I’m sure most teams have got about seven different weather apps and the rain radar. You’re trying to talk to the ground staff and try and get as much insight as you can, but until it actually falls down and the umpires call you off, we’re just focused on what we want to do. Hopefully, getting a full hundred overs of cricket would be really nice.”
Oct 23, 2025 1:18 PM IST
IND W vs NZ W Live Score Women’s World Cup: Hello and welcome everyone!
IND W vs NZ W Live Score Women’s World Cup: Hello and welcome everyone! India face New Zealand in a must-win clash, and it is expected to be a thrilling affair!
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