The ongoing Women’s World Cup has only run for a week so far, but it has already thrown up some thrilling finishes, upsets and near-upsets, unpredictable results, and some extraordinary individual performances. Here’s a lookback after the first nine games.The opening game the World Cup neededNew Zealand vs West Indies was not expected to be the most high-profile match of the league stage, and, what was worse, it had to fight for eyeballs with Virat Kohli’s 100th Test and the return of the Australia men’s Test team on Pakistani soil after 24 long years.But, on opening day, the two teams still brought out a match for the ages when their power-hitters - Sophie Devine and Hayley Matthews - struck centuries to set the bar high for the other teams to follow.
