Women's World Cup: Team India meets President Murmu; gifts jersey

The World Cup-winning Indian women's cricket squad met President Droupadi Murmu astatine the Rashtrapati Bhavan connected Thursday. During the meeting, squad skipper Harmanpreet Kaur presented a squad jersey with signatures from each players to the President.The Indian squad secured their archetypal planetary rubric successful women's cricket with a 52-run triumph implicit South Africa successful the 50-over World Cup last successful Navi Mumbai connected Sunday. This accomplishment marks a historical infinitesimal for cricket successful India.President Murmu praised the team's historical accomplishment and highlighted their relation successful inspiring young people."Members of the Indian Women Cricket team, victor of the ICC Women's Cricket World Cup 2025 called connected President Droupadi Murmu astatine Rashtrapati Bhavan. The President congratulated the squad and said that they person created past and person go relation models for younger generation.

She said that this squad reflects India. They correspond antithetic regions, antithetic societal backgrounds, antithetic circumstances but they are 1 Team — India," she wrote connected X.

Captain Harmanpreet Kaur presented the World Cup trophy to President Murmu during their interaction.The squad had antecedently met with Prime Minister Narendra Modi connected Wednesday.In the gathering with

PM Modi

, India women's squad skipper Harmanpreet Kaur reflected connected their earlier 2017 gathering with Modi, wherever

Team India

came arsenic the runner-ups and past expressed pridefulness successful returning arsenic champions.

Vice Captain

Smriti Mandhana

credited the Prime Minister’s enactment for inspiring women’s achievements nationwide. Deepti Sharma recalled his motivational words from their erstwhile interaction. Modi urged the squad to champion the "Fit India" movement, beforehand fittingness among girls, and animate the adjacent procreation done subject and perseverance.