Harmanpreet Kaur fittingly took a sensational catch to square it all off as India beat South Africa by 52 runs and won their maiden World Cup title. It was also, just as fittingly, Deepti Sharma’s fifth wicket of the day, after having scored a crucial half-century earlier. Laura Wolvaardt scored a century, incredibly following up on her ton in the semi-final. However, she fell soon thereafter to Deepti, who went on to take yet another wicket in that 42nd over and suddenly South Africa were down to their last two wickets. Earlier, Shafali Verma took matters into her own hands. After top scoring for India earlier in the day, she has come in and taken two huge wickets to suddenly South Africa into wobbletown.

South Africa’s chase got off to a back-and-forth of a start, with the batters doing well for much of the first 10 overs before India roared back with two quick wickets. Laura Wolvaardt and Sune Luus have since steadied things for South Africa and India are now searching for a wicket. Wolvaardt has scored a half-century and broken the record for most runs by a batter in any edition of the World Cup. Earlier, Amanjot Kaur’s brilliant direct hit gave India the breakthrough as she ran out the dangerous Tazmin Brits, thus ending her opening stand with Laura Wolvaardt on 51. Anneke Bosch fell two overs later.