The Indian Women’s cricket team is all set to play the final of the ICC Women’s World Cup 2017 against hosts England on Sunday at the iconic Lord’s which is considered as the Mecca of Cricket. England will be looking forward to winning their 4th World Cup title while India will look to continue their good run and lift their maiden World Cup title. So with the final still more than a day to go let us have a look at the 10 things you must know ahead of the final.
# This is only the 2nd time when India has qualified for the final. They did it in 2005 and eventually lost to Australia.
# If India goes on to lift the World Cup, they will only be the 4th nation to lift a World Cup. While Australia has won the title 6 times, hosts England have come out triumphant on 3 occasions while the Black Caps won the tournament in 2000.
# England are hosting the World Cup for only the 3rd time and in the previous two times they hosted the tournament in 1973 and 1993, they finished as champions on both occasions.
# England has won both their last two World Cup finals and they defeated the Black Caps on both the occasions.
# India has won 16 out of their 19 games in 2017 while Englanhasve won 7 out of their previous 8 games in the calendar year. The solitary loss came against the Indian side in the first match of the tournament as they were at the receiving end of a Smriti Mandhana onslaught.
# 3 finals out of the last 4 have been won by team batting first
# Both sides have met each other thrice at Lord’s. While both have won a match each, one was abandoned due to rain.
# Indian captain Mithali Raj has the most runs in ODI against England with 1605 runs at a healthy average of 48.6 which is better than any other batswoman against England.
# Harmanpreet Kaur’s innings of 171 in the Semi final is the 4th highest score in the history of the competition.