Three Indians make the cut

Three Indians - Smriti Mandhana, Jemimah Rodrigues and Deepti Sharma - were named in the Women’s Cricket World Cup 2025 Team of the Tournament, announced on Tuesday.

Deepti Sharma was the highest wicket-taker at the Women’s World Cup 2025 with 22 scalps. She took 5/39 in the final against South Africa.

Mandhana scored a century against New Zealand in the league stage and finished second on the list of highest run-scorers at the 2025 Women’s World Cup with a tally of 434 and an average of 54.25.

Rodrigues, meanwhile, played an unforgettable match-winning knock of 127 not out, which sent the hosts into the final at seven-time Women’s ODI World Cup champions Australia’s expense.

The selection panel consisted of commentators Ian Bishop, Mel Jones and Isa Guha, Gaurav Saxena (ICC General Manager – Events and Corporate Communications) and Estelle Vasudevan (Journalist Representative).

The Indian trio was joined by three cricket players from the tournament runners-up, South Africa. Laura Wolvaardt was named the Team of the Tournament captain and was joined by her team-mates Marizanne Kapp and Nadine de Klerk.

The same number of Australians - Ashleigh Gardner, Annabel Sutherland and Alana King - were named in the team. Two English players - Nat Sciver-Brunt and Sophie Ecclestone - and Pakistan’s Sidra Nawaz complete the squad.

The team of the tournament openers were on opposing sides in the final, with Mandhana picked to partner Laura Wolvaardt at the top of the order.

The pair finished comfortably as the leading run scorers in the competition, Wolvaardt topping the charts on 571 at an outstanding average of 71.37 - the leading individual run-scorer at an Women’s Cricket World Cup - including back-to-back centuries in the semi-final and final.

Marizanne Kapp takes her place in the side after another strong showing with bat and ball in recent weeks, scoring two half-centuries and taking 12 wickets. That tally featured five for 20 against England in the semi-final, which helped her become the leading wicket-taker in ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup history.

Her team-mate, Nadine de Klerk, also had an impressive all-round tournament, her unbeaten 84 from 54 balls helped her side down India in the league stage, while she also chipped in with nine wickets.

Australian bowlers, Alana King and Annabel Sutherland, both feature, after King made history by taking seven for 18 against South Africa in the league stage, the best bowling figures at any ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup.

Sutherland finished with 17 wickets, second only to Sharma, and contributed an unbeaten 98 to help her side past England in the round robin stage.

She did so as part of a 180-run stand with Ashleigh Gardner, who compiled her second century of the competition in that match and is named in the middle order – she also took seven wickets for good measure.

Sidra Nawaz takes the gloves after three catches and four stumpings for Pakistan, including a terrific take down the leg side to dismiss Harmanpreet Kaur against India and lightning quick reflexes to whip the bails off and remove Kim Garth in her side’s clash with Australia.

Sophie Ecclestone completes the 11 after taking 16 wickets at 14.25 apiece, including four-wicket hauls against Sri Lanka and South Africa, while her teammate Nat Sciver-Brunt, who contributed 262 runs and nine wickets, is selected as the 12th player following an excellent first World Cup as captain.

Women’s Cricket World Cup 2025 Team of the Tournament

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