- By Gurmeet Batra
- Sat, 01 Nov 2025 11:22 PM (IST)
- Source:JND
IND W vs SA W Women's World Cup Final 2025: South Africa captain Laura Wolvaardt is setting her sights on a historic title victory, aiming to silence the raucous Indian crowd at the Dr DY Patil Sports Academy in Navi Mumbai on Sunday during their ICC Women's World Cup 2025 final match.
Wolvaardt's statement drew parallels with Australia captain Pat Cummins, who famously declared his intention to silence the Narendra Modi Stadium crowd in Ahmedabad ahead of the World Cup final against home favourite India, who were unbeaten in the tournament. Cummins' Australians later did just that, clinching the title with Travis Head's match-winning century.
Ahead of Sunday’s popcorn clash, a pointed question about her team's strategy to overcome the expected deluge of Indian support was thrown at the South Africa captain, with over 90 per cent of the crowd expected to cheer on the home side.
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"Hopefully we win. I guess that will silence them," Wolvaardt told the media here on Saturday.
“It's going to be a very tough game with the whole crowd behind India, probably a sold-out stadium. It's going to be a very exciting opportunity, but at the same time, it puts a lot of pressure on them (India) as well,” the South Africa captain said.
“They have the whole country behind them and are sort of expected to win. It's going to be a really big crowd — probably the biggest crowd that a lot of our girls have not played in front of — a lot of eyeballs on the game, a lot of added pressure,” she added.
India's record against South Africa in World Cup matches since 2017 hasn't exactly been fortunate. India reached the ODI World Cup final for the third time but they never won. India always ended up on the wrong side of history in matches against the Proteas, having lost three encounters, including a nail-biting three-wicket defeat at Visakhapatnam in the ongoing tournament.
The captain said South Africa will not rely on their recent record against India in the Women's World Cup final.
“Knockout cricket is completely different to league cricket. We've seen people are able to do some very special things in knockout games like we saw from Jemi the other night,” Wolvaardt said.
“I don't think we're going to be looking into our group game against them. We know we have to play some really good cricket. They're a really strong side and have just come off of a really good game as well, so they'll be high on confidence.
"We can't sort of bring any of our history into this game, whether it would be finals that we've lost or games that we've won against India, we're just really trying to erase all of that stuff and start completely afresh," she added.