South Africa, batting second, starting their innings, chasing a total of 299 to win 🏏

ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup Final 2025 🏆

India Women 🇮🇳 v 🇿🇦 South Africa Women

Dr DY Patil Sports Academy, Navi Mumbai, 09:30 GMT

For the first time in 25 years, a new name will be inscribed on the Women’s World Cup trophy

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🎵 My top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Serebrier, Russian National Orchestra, Yang, Romanovsky, Chisson, Serov, Barton-Pine (28 plays), Fretwork & Silas Wollston (22), The Unthanks (22), George Xiaoyuan Fu (20), Electric Light Orchestra (18)

Very weird version of Radiohead’s Creep on Strictly. Fantastic dance too 👏 🎵

Strictly Halloween Special 💃🎃

Two excellent cheeses and great Italian red wine 🧀🍷

Grim Halloween weather this afternoon - gloomy with wind and rain - so I’ve watched The Haunting 🎃👻🏚️

Watched: The Haunting, 1963 - ★★★★ 🎥

[…] in the night, in the dark.

India beat Australia and get to the World Cup Final 👏 🏏

That was a fantastic match. India score 341-5 from 48.3 overs, a record run chase in women’s ODI cricket.

Jemimah Rodrigues finished not out on 127.

Really exciting World Cup semi-final between India and Australia. 10 overs to go and the result is far from certain 🏏

ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup

2nd semi-final: India 🇮🇳 v 🇦🇺 Australia

Australia won the toss and chose to bat first 🏏

World Cup semi-final: England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 v 🇿🇦 South Africa

South Africa dominant, victorious and through to the World Cup Final. England, chasing 320, all out for 194 after 42.3 overs 🏏

Finished reading: Introduction to Buddhism and the Practice of Zazen: The Teachings of Gudo Nishijima Roshi by Michael Luetchford 📚

ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup 2025

First semi-final: England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 v 🇿🇦 South Africa

South Africa, batting first, have scored 319-7, including a brilliant 169 from their captain Laura Wolvaardt 🏏

Watched: Thunderbolts*, 2025 - ★★½ 🎥

Some great Villa defending in the second half and nice goal by Matty Cash in the first. Aston Villa 1-0 Manchester City. Good game 👏 ⚽️