Sophie Divine scored a brilliant century. (Photo- PTI)

In the second match of the Women's ODI World Cup 2025, New Zealand faced Australia's team. In this match, Australia's team set a target of 327 runs in front of New Zealand. In response, the Kiwi team started nothing special and lost 2 wickets without opening an account. After this, captain Sophie landed at the divine crease and he scored a captaincy innings and scored a century. However, New Zealand suffered defeat in this match.

Sophie Divine scored a brilliant century

When Sophie Divine landed at the crease, the team was under great pressure. But he initially worked to handle the innings and scored very carefully. Large shorts were also seen from them to freeze at the crease. Sophie Divine took 69 balls to reach the half -century, including 5 fours and 1 six. After this, he increased the speed of runs and completed his century off 107 balls. He faced a total of 112 balls in his innings and scored 111 runs. He hit a total of 12 fours and 3 sixes in this innings.

During this time, he also did the feat of hitting 4 fours in the 36th over of the innings. At the same time, this is the 9th century of his ODI career and when it comes to international cricket, he played a century for the 10th time. This tournament is quite special for Sophie Divine. Actually, she announced a few months ago that she will retire from this format after the ODI World Cup. In such a situation, he has started the tournament with a century and told that she is going to make this more special.

This happened after 28 years

Sophie Divine has also become the third oldest player to score a century in the Women's World Cup. He scored this century at the age of 36 years and 30 days. Before him in 1997 i.e. 28 years ago, Janet Britin scored a century at the age of 38 years and 161 days. At the same time, Barb Bevez is at the forefront of this list, he did this feat at the age of 39 years 48 days.

Could not win the team

Sophie Divine may have managed to play the captaincy innings, but she did not get the support of the rest of the batsmen, due to which New Zealand lost. New Zealand's team could only manage 237 runs in response to 327 runs and was all out.