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For Harmanpreet Kaur, the pistillate who has done much for Indian women’s cricket than anyone could imagine, the triumph was profoundly emotional. (Getty Images)
NEW DELHI: India skipper Harmanpreet Kaur had a calm night, keeping the coveted ICC World Cup trophy beside her and her hands connected it. The Indian women’s cricket squad kept its day with past by winning its first-ever World Cup, defeating South Africa by 52 runs to publication a aureate section successful the country’s pantheon of sporting achievements connected Sunday.
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More than the triumph itself, Harmanpreet besides sent a almighty connection done the words printed connected the backmost of her T-shirt.“Some dreams are shared by a cardinal people. That’s wherefore cricket is everyone’s game,” Harmanpreet wrote successful her caption portion sharing a representation of herself wearing the T-shirt and sleeping with the trophy.“Cricket is simply a gentleman's EVERYONE'S game,” the substance connected the T-shirt work — with ‘gentleman’s’ struck out.
If June 25, 1983, was a watershed infinitesimal for Indian men’s cricket—when Kapil’s Devils bushed the mighty West Indies astatine Lord’s—then November 2, 2025, volition beryllium remembered arsenic a seminal infinitesimal for women’s cricket successful India.Rohit Sharma, who inactive carries the scars of November 19, 2023, was watching the last from the stands, silently praying that Harmanpreet Kaur wouldn’t conscionable the aforesaid fate.For Harmanpreet, the pistillate who has done much for Indian women’s cricket than anyone could imagine, the triumph was profoundly emotional.
She knows however overmuch it hurts to suffer a final—something she experienced 8 summers ago—and her girls didn’t fto her down this time.As she latched connected to Nadine de Klerk’s offering portion backpedaling astatine other cover, Ian Bishop fittingly described the infinitesimal arsenic “inspiring generations.” It couldn’t person been much poetic, with A.R. Rahman’s rendition of “Vande Mataram” reverberating crossed the stands.
