Highlights
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The Men’s World Cup has been won by India in 1983 and 2011.
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Indian Women’s group dropped out in the 2005 Women’s World Cup to Australia.
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Mithali Raj is now the primary skipper to lead the nation in two World Cup finals.
India will face hosts England in the final with beaten on the exact same group in the opener of this tournament on June 24 by 35 runs.
India have won six from the 8 matches in the tournament so much — they dropped by a substantial 115 runs against South Africa and then were outdone by Australia at the league phase by 8 wickets. Naturally, India went on to trump the defending champions Australia at the semi-final later.
India, as a cricketing nation, are not new to a final’s pressure and environment. Here is actually the period it has been left by India to the final of a World Cup, both men’s and women.
For India women this is actually the time. The last time India played with the closing was at the 2005 Women’s World Cup at Centurion from Australia, in which they were totally outplayed by the subsequently winners Australia — they have made it six times since then.
In the 2005 World Cup, Mithali Raj and also the Captain Courageous had been leading the India girls and this moment, respectively, using the Jhulan Goswami with her side.
In what could be their final World Cup, Raj and also Goswami will wish to get their hands on the prize and compose a new age at the women’s cricket of India.
Here Is a glance at how India fared at the other World Cup finals, as the nation gears up to watch India take on England at the Women’s World Cup final on Sunday.
Kapil Dev lead India reached the final of the 1983 World Cup after winning five of the seven matches.
India took to the mighty West Indies in the final, having played two matches against them already.
India had defeated West Indies in their opener by 34 runs and then West Indies beat India by 44 runs in their second match.
During the same World Cup, India had played Australia knocking them out and then dropping during the group phase.
At the final, because they trumped Clive side by 43 runs India was third time lucky against the Windies.
Batting first, India had managed to put 183 runs with Kris Srikkanth over the plank.
It had been India’s bowling that outclassed the heavyweights of this Windies as Madal Lal and Mohinder Amarnath picked 3 wickets each while Balwinder Sandhu followed them up.
And with a tight bowling performance, India lifted their first World Cup trophy.
The Men in Blue had won and so were high on spirits , when India reached the final of the 2003 World Cup.
India were to face Australia at the closing and pole that although though the Kangaroos had beaten on the Men in Blue with a 9 wickets at the second match of India, India was on a rampage winning each of their matches.
However, the closing proven to be a different story.
Batting first, Australia struck the bowlers all over the park and losing two wickets, that they published a total of 359 runs.
In response, India could manage just 234 runs, with Virender Sehwag and Rahul Dravid showing some resistance using 82 and 47 runs respectively.
After winning 5 off their 8 matches, mithali Raj-led India girls reached the final of the 2005 Women’s World Cup, two were left including the one from Australia and they dropped one against New Zealand.
Regardless of the first loss to New Zealand, India defeat the White Ferns in the semi-final with a substantial 40 runs to produce it to their first closing.
At the closing, Australia posted a fantastic total of 215 runs and batted first. 98 runs were not able to put up a struggle and outdid by Australia girls India.
India play England at the final at Lord’s on Sunday.
This was India’s next appearance in the final of the World Cup because the World Cup was held in India, and this time India had the home advantage.
On the road to the final, India had won six from the 8 matches, with lost the other and one.
From the 2011 World Cup India had defeated Australia in the quarter-final just and subsequently went on to win the trophy.
At the Wankhede Stadium on April 2, 2011, Sri Lanka chosen to bat first, won the toss and published a good 274 runs to chase.
The Captain Cool promoted himself up the order and MS Dhoni and Gautam Gambhir steered the pursuit of India because the former scored 97 runs and played with with a knock of 91 to give India their second World Cup.
