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Shafali Verma couldn’t find words to express what she was feeling, having won the Player of the Match in the 2025 Women’s World Cup final, despite not being in the team until a week ago. She came into the team as an emergency replacement for the injured Pratika Rawal, and went on to top score for India in the first innings and take the two game-changing wickets in the second, in the biggest match of her career.

Her 87 runs as the opener were the highest for an Indian top-two batter in a World Cup final, while she also became the youngest to surpass 50 in the summit clash of the biggest competition in the sport. Her two wickets, of all-rounders Sune Luus and the legendary Marizane Kapp, were only the second and third wickets of her ODI career — which couldn’t have

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