ICC Women's World Cup 2017 final: India will have to wait for a while, says astrologer Greenstone Lobo

Harmanpreet’s whirlwind innings that annihilated defending champions Australia in the semi-finals has raised great hopes of a maiden world cup victory for India. Planets indicate that the Indian eves wouldn’t be able to step up when it matters the most.

Harmanpreet’s extraordinary knock has drawn comparisons with the epic knock of Kapil Dev in the semi-finals of the 1983 World Cup which India eventually won. But Harmanpreet definitely is not a Kapil Dev and may not be repeating her heroics in the final. Kapil Dev was born in 1959 when Pluto was in the deepest exaltation. This happens once in about 256 years. The power of Pluto propelled Kapil’s devils to do the unthinkable – win against the hot favourites and the cricketing super power of those times, the West Indies.

A world cup winning squad looks extraordinary with players, especially the captain and the coach having great horoscopes. A world cup win makes one a legend in a lifetime and only people with extraordinary charts make the cut. So here, the horoscope of Harmanpreet would have mattered only if she was the captain.

The battle is between Heather Knight; the captain of England versus the Mithali Raj, the Indian skipper.

Mithali has a good horoscope, with Uranus in exaltation which happens once in 84 years. Mithali also has Planet Y (1999 JV127), Saturn and Mars in exaltation too. Heather has horoscope miles ahead of Mithali. In fact, Heather has the most powerful planet in the universe, the Pluto extremely prominently placed in her chart. It has just come into its own house Scorpio after 256 years. Besides that Heather also has Planet-X (2007 RH283), Planet-Z (2008 FC76) and Jupiter in exaltation. Add Chiron and Saturn too in their own houses and Heather’s becomes a powerhouse of a horoscope.

Heather definitely has a horoscope much better than Mithali. So, the chances of winning the title become higher for England.

Another important factor that goes in England’s favour is that Mithali has achieved all that she could have with her 'good' chart. Her horoscope was good enough to make her the highest run getter in women’s cricket ever. Probably that would remain her biggest achievement.

Probably Jhulan Goswami could have been given one more chance to win this event. She definitely has a better horoscope than Mithali.

The Indian team is also not astrologically well balanced – There is a player born in amavasya, many players born with lots of debilitated (weak) planets. There are just a handful of players with good charts like Harmanpreet; who wouldn’t be able to power the team all alone once again. The team composition is also skewed with too older or too younger players in the Indian squad.

England has a well-balanced squad with many players having fantastic horoscopes, born in full moon or new moon and very well balanced age-wise too.

Interestingly the Indian cricket coach Tushar Arothe and his England counterpart Mark Robinson were born in the same year-1966, but if you look closer you find that Robinson has a better horoscope than Arothe.

India has won the group stage match against England convincingly. That too goes against India. In such events of high magnitude, you can defeat the opponent team only once if you have two chances. India Men’s team won the group match against Pakistan but lost to them in the finals in the recently concluded Champions Trophy.

Australia won against India in group stages and India thrashed them in the semis. England lost to India during the group stages and the chances are they will get even-stevens in the finals of the world cup, which would be the win that matters.

India probably will have to wait for another world cup to win their maiden title, under another captain.