Indian cricket has reached new heights after clinching its maiden ODI World Cup title on Sunday, November 2. The Women in Blue beat South Africa by 52 runs to fulfil a billion dreams. Irrespective of the result, the most beautiful sight was to see a jam-packed stadium and a crore-plus viewership for women's cricket, which struggled for fans for the longest time.
A journey which began in 1978 The journey began in 1978 when India locked horns against England at home. However, it took the girls 47 years to prove their mettle and end the trophy drought.
The Women in Blue came close twice - 2005 and 2017, but couldn't earn the respect they deserve. However, things started to change with the introduction of WPL, which started in 2023.
It has just been three seasons since India's premier women's T20 cricket league, but it has left a deeper impact on the players. Notably, the league has helped India stars play against top talent regularly, share the dressing room with them and also understand the game better.
Thus, this article will shed light on how India performed pre-WPL and how their performance has changed post the introduction of the Women's Premier League.
How Has India performed in ODIs pre and post WPL Let's look at WPL's impact on Team India's performance in ODIs
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It is worth noting that there is a marginal difference between India's win% before WPL and post-WPL. However, here is the catch. The idea behind WPL is to play better and dominate the top-four teams, which also helped India beat Australia and South Africa in this World Cup, which wasn't the case earlier.
India women's performance vs top-four Let's look at how India women's performed in ODIs against the top four (Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, and England) pre and post WPL.
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It is clear that that the win percentage of India against top four teams has jumped from 37% to a whopping 50%, which signifies that there is now no clear favourites and India stand their chance against any big side.
Let's also look at the similar stats in T20Is as Women's T20 World Cup isn't also far away and will take place in June 2026 in England.
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It has been just three years since the inception of WPL 2025 and already, the winning percentage for India has rose from 52% to 60.5%, which is a significant development, given the tournament still is yet to peak and just features five teams.
Similarly to the ODIs, let's also look at how India have changed against top-four nations since inception of WPL.
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The stats clearly shows that the win percentage has improved slightly, but there is still a long way ahead to improve and the teams needs to learn more from WPL.
WPL: The right way ahead WPL has heavily impacted India's white-ball game as there is a significant rise in Women in Blue's performance in ODIs against top-four nations. Further, in the T20Is as well, the Harmanpreet Kaur-led side have also improved their stats in the shortest format of the game as well.
There is a long way forward and soon the India players will become the main figures from second fiddle to overseas stars and their game awareness will also get better playing more and more in the WPL.
Women's World Cup 2025 - (Source: AFP)
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