For Deepti Sharma, India’s maiden Ladies’s World Cup triumph at house was greater than only a dream fulfilled. As she stated after the win, it was within the workforce’s future. The all-rounder, who delivered standout performances all through the match and significantly within the closing, stated the workforce’s lengthy anticipate an ICC title was “written to occur in India.”Deepti was on the coronary heart of India’s 52-run win over South Africa in Sunday’s closing on the DY Patil Stadium, taking 5 wickets for 39 runs after scoring an important 58 to assist India put up 298/7. Her all-round effort earned her the Participant of the Event award, having completed with 22 wickets and 215 runs throughout the competitors. “I’m feeling actually good, because the day we performed the primary recreation of the World Cup, I’ve carried out precisely how I wished to play as a senior participant,” Deepti advised PTI. “There can’t be something higher than giving such an excellent efficiency within the closing and lifting the trophy.” Reflecting on the years of heartbreak earlier than this triumph, she stated, “It took us actually lengthy to win the World Cup, however what God has written for you occurs solely on the destined time and I believe it was written to happen in India.” The off-spinning all-rounder, who grew to become the primary participant throughout males’s and girls’s cricket to attain a fifty and take a five-wicket haul in a World Cup knockout, added that enjoying on the DY Patil Stadium carried particular significance. “I’ve so many good reminiscences of DY Patil Stadium as we’ve got received all of the sequence right here. We have been very constructive as a workforce, and regardless of the outcome is perhaps we are going to play as a workforce,” she stated. Within the closing, Shafali Verma top-scored with 87, whereas Deepti and Richa Ghosh’s late partnership pushed India near the 300-run mark.

South Africa’s Laura Wolvaardt fought onerous with a century, however Deepti’s five-wicket burst sealed the deal for India. As Deepti summed it up, “We wished to win it as this was taking place in India and we needed to win this as a workforce… and now that wait has come to an finish.”