India’s Women’s World Cup winning team met Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday (5 Wednesday 2025) at 7 Lok Kalyan Marg. During this, Indian captain Harmanpreet Kaur recalled her meeting with PM Modi in the year 2017. In the final of the ODI World Cup 2017, the Indian women’s team had to face defeat at the hands of England by a close margin of 9 runs. At that time Mithali Raj was the captain of the Indian team. Harmanpreet Kaur played a fighting inning of 51 runs in this match.
Harmanpreet Kaur recalled the meeting with PM Modi in the year 2017, when Team India met him without winning the trophy, but this time the women’s team met PM Modi with the trophy. This team has fulfilled its promise. During the conversation, Vice-Captain Smriti Mandhana told that PM Modi has motivated her, he has been an inspiration for all of them. He also told that today girls are doing well in all fields. This is because of the efforts of PM Modi.
Harmanpreet gave information about the coach
During this meeting, Harmanpreet told how her coach taught her that it is important to live in the present. We have to forget the past and live in the present. This is very important. You also say the same thing as a PM. This is important for our strength and is part of training. On this, PM Modi also said that living in the present has been a part of his life and it has become his habit. India won the title match played against South Africa in Navi Mumbai by 52 runs. In this match, Team India scored 298 runs after losing 7 wickets on the basis of brilliant innings of Shefali Verma (87) and Deepti Sharma (58).
How was South Africa’s performance?
For South Africa, Ayabonga Khaka took maximum 3 wickets, while Chloe Tryon, Nonkululeko Mlaba and Nadine de Klerk took 1 wicket each. In response, the South African team was reduced to 246 runs in 45.3 overs. Opening batsman captain Laura Wolvaardt scored 101 runs in 98 balls with 1 six and 11 fours, but could not lead the team to victory. For India, Deepti Sharma took maximum 5 wickets, while Shefali Verma took 2 wickets. Apart from these, Shri Charani took 1 wicket.
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