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NEW DELHI: Scientific astrologer Greenstone Lobo has made a bold prediction ahead of the 2025 ICC Women’s World Cup final, claiming that Team India have a 90 percent chance of lifting the trophy when they face South Africa at the DY Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai on Sunday.Both teams are gunning for their first-ever World Cup title, and Lobo believes Harmanpreet Kaur’s horoscope makes her “destined to create history.”“While most cricket observers would feel that yes, India has beaten Australia, the bigger team, and now they’re going to face a smaller team — South Africa — so it’s going to be a cakewalk, I would feel that probably that could not be the case,” Lobo said.“In fact, if there is any team which I feared shouldn’t be there in the final, then that is South Africa. I would have been much happier if either England or Australia was there in the final.”The reason, he says, is South African skipper Laura Wolvaardt’s powerful horoscope.“Laura Wolvaardt has got a phenomenal horoscope. She was born in 1999 and is a grey lizard. She has Pluto and all four asteroids very powerfully placed. Her chart is as powerful as Ricky Ponting’s, which means she’s very dangerous.”However, despite Wolvaardt’s strong cosmic backing, Lobo insists India’s stars shine brighter.“I’m saying there is a 90% chance that India will win,” Lobo declared.“Harmanpreet Kaur has a one-in-a-billion horoscope. She has Pluto at zero degrees — something that occurs once in 240 years — and it belongs to people who create history and do something for the first time ever.”

If India win, it will mark the nation’s first-ever Women’s World Cup triumph, and Lobo believes Harmanpreet is destined for that glory.“Her chart shows she has it in her to create history — very powerful Neptune in the seventh house, Pluto transiting the eighth, and a strong planet in the twelfth house of international success. She can lead the team to a huge victory.”Lobo also highlighted the team’s unique strength — the ‘Grey Lizards’, a rare astrological group known for defying odds.“Like Kapil Dev had his ‘Devils’, Harmanpreet has her own set of ‘Devils’. Smriti Mandhana, Jemimah Rodrigues, Deepti Sharma, Amanjot Kaur, Radha Yadav, Renuka Singh — there are like five or six grey lizards in the playing XI. The more grey lizards, the greater the possibility of creating history,” he explained.The astrologer also believes coach Amol Muzumdar’s stars are perfectly aligned for success.“If Amol Muzumdar goes on to win this World Cup, it will be poetic justice. He never played for India, but his planets are so powerfully placed that he can create history now. His horoscope is stronger than South Africa’s coach Mandla’s.”Finally, Lobo pointed out an interesting cosmic twist from the league stages.“India lost to Australia, South Africa, and England in the league matches. But when teams are evenly matched, the one that loses the inconsequential game often wins the consequential one. We lost to Australia, and then we beat them. We lost to South Africa — now the chances of beating them in the final go up dramatically.”Confident and emotional, Lobo said he’ll be at the stadium to witness what he believes will be a historic night for Indian women’s cricket.“This team has it in them to do it — from Shafali Verma to Renuka Singh. I’m going to be in the stadium to witness history being created.”