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I have always loved sports. Not for the medals, but for what they do to you. As a child, I spent more evenings on the grounds than at the study table. On athletics days I learned how to start and still push when the pain begins. Cricket, though, was different. It was a family ritual with my father and brother invested, while I absorbed and learned from the screen and their discussions. Somewhere along the way the game changed for me. The shimmer and boom of the IPL made cricket feel less like a sport and more like a marketplace which did not sit well with me. I drifted away. But last night, after a long time, something historic pulled me back. I watched. I could not look away. India beat South Africa by 52 runs to win the Women’s Cricket World Cup in Navi Mumbai. It was a victory driven by Shafali Verma’s blazing 87 and a match-defining all-round performance from Deepti Sharma. This is India’s first Women’s World Cup title, and the stadium, the broadcasters, the nation felt it. Numbers matter here because the attention this tournament drew does not fit the old script. The International Cricket Council and broadcasters reported record viewership and watch-time, with growth in unique viewers and landmark streaming for marquee fixtures. The India–Pakistan women’s match alone broke previous records, and that means the “women’s game” label is no longer a niche. But this isn’t the whole story. Behind this moment is decades of unseen labour. Women cricketers in India once travelled in un-reserved train coaches, carried their own bedding, shared bats, slept on floors in dormitories with four toilets for twenty players. One report says, “There was no money, no sponsors … daal served in a plastic vessel … we paid our own fare.” These were not occasional setbacks. They were the standard, a given. Even in those conditions, a handful of players kept showing up, driven less by promise and more by pure love for the game. Full article here (or link in bio) https://anupamadalmia.com/2025/11/03/when-history-was-written-at-the-stroke-of-midnight/ #womenscricket #worldcup #indianteamvictory #sportsinindia #worldcup2025

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