NAVI MUMBAI: Australian captain Pat Cummins’ famous comment before the men’s World Cup final against hosts India in November 2023 — when he said he wanted to silence the crowd at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad — seems to have become a template for the South Africans too. On Saturday, during the pre-final presser of the Women's 2025 ODI World Cup at the DY Patil Stadium, South African captain Laura Wolvaardt echoed Cummins' statement, saying that South Africa will look to silence the massive crowd of Indian fans in the summit clash. While Cummins’ team went on to do exactly that, winning the title thanks to Travis Head’s match-winning century, Wolvaardt will hope that her team too can take inspiration from the Aussies' clinical show that day. A crowd of more than 35,000 cheer

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