Iconic! Harmanpreet recreates Dhoni’s pose; clicked with trophy at Gateway of India

A time aft lifting the ICC Women’s World Cup for the archetypal time, the Indian women’s cricket squad celebrated the historical infinitesimal successful Mumbai, with skipper Harmanpreet Kaur posing with the trophy astatine the Gateway of India - a framework reminiscent of MS Dhoni and squad India's 2011 World Cup triumph. India’s 52-run triumph implicit South Africa successful the last astatine DY Patil Stadium ended a agelong hold for an ICC title, with Harmanpreet and her broadside yet putting to remainder the heartbreaks of 2005 and 2017. The pictures released by the ICC connected Monday showed the skipper proudly holding the trophy against the iconic monument was a recreation of what Dhoni did successful 2011, taking fans down representation lane. Deepti Sharma was astatine the bosom of India’s rubric run, producing an all-round show that earned her the Player of the Tournament award.

The off-spinning all-rounder took 5 wickets for 39 runs and scored 58 successful the final, finishing the tourney with 22 wickets and 215 runs.

“I americium feeling truly good, since the time we played the archetypal crippled of the World Cup, I person performed precisely however I wanted to play arsenic a elder player,” Deepti told PTI. “There cannot beryllium thing amended than giving specified a bully show successful the last and lifting the trophy.” Reflecting connected the journey, Deepti said the triumph felt destined.

“It took america truly agelong to triumph the World Cup, but what God has written for you happens lone astatine the destined clip and I deliberation it was written to instrumentality spot successful India,” she said.

Harmanpreet echoed akin emotions, describing the triumph arsenic the commencement of thing bigger for the team. “This is the start. We wanted to interruption this barrier. And our adjacent program is to marque this a habit,” she said aft the final. “So galore large occasions are coming, and we privation to support improving.

This is not the end, conscionable the beginning.”

The skipper besides credited her teammates and enactment unit for their relation successful the win. “I person to springiness recognition to the team; it was not imaginable without them,” she said. Team India are presently successful Mumbai and are scheduled to conscionable Prime Minister Narendra Modi successful New Delhi connected Wednesday, November 5.