India's women's team closing the gap on Australia, says WV raman

For decades, the landscape of women’s international cricket was a story of haves and have-nots. The Indian women’s team, brimming with innate talent, often found themselves on the wrong side of that divide, not for a lack of skill, but for a lack of system. As former India batsman and ex-women’s team coach WV Raman reflects, “The Indian women’s team has really progressed a lot in recent years, especially after coming under the wing of the BCCI . Now they get to play more matches and obviously there are more opportunities. And that has shown in the way they performed.” He pinpoints the historical gap not to a deficit in ability, but to a chasm in preparation. “Earlier, they were probably not as good in terms of fitness and stuff like the New Zealand or England or the other teams in the