The bad memories of the 2017 final resurfaced as India, after cruising through most of the 289-run chase against England in the Women’s World Cup match, the Women in Blue failed to get over the line in Indore on Sunday. India now have lost three games in a row in the ongoing tournament.
So near, yet so far, is following the Indian women’s team to the next level as Harmanpreet Kaur and Co fell short by four runs against England in a crunch Women’s World Cup clash in Indore, a game they should have won. At 234/3, needing 55 runs off 53 deliveries, with two set batters in, India should have chased 289 down at a canter, but it ended up another botched-up chase from the Women in Blue, much like the 2017 World Cup final and the 2022 Commonwealth Games final.ย
India now hold the unwanted record of as many as 10 failed chases in the Women’s World Cup while chasing 200-plus targets. The 2017 World Cup finalists are yet to successfully chase down a score of 200-plus in the World Cup and it was Sunday when they came the closest but choked in the end as Sneh Rana and Amanjot Kaur couldn’t score 14 runs in the final over, bowled by Linsey Smith.
| Target | Opposition | Result | Venue/Year |
| 228 | Australia | Lost by 153 runs | Auckland, 1982 |
| 224 | Australia | Lost by 51 runs | Lincoln, 2000 |
| 225 | New Zealand | Lost by 74 runs | Lincoln, 2000 |
| 216 | Australia | Lost by 98 runs | Centurion, 2005 |
| 273 | England | Lost by 32 runs | Brabourne, 2013 |
| 283 | Sri Lanka | Lost by 138 runs | Brabourne, 2013 |
| 274 | South Africa | Lost by 115 runs | Leicester, 2017 |
| 229 | England | Lost by 9 runs | Lord’s, 2017 |
| 261 | New Zealand | Lost by 62 runs | Hamilton, 2022 |
| 289 | England | Lost by 4 runs | Indore, 2025 |
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