“Agar silver jeeti toh aaj nahi toh kal log tanne bhool javenge; gold jeeti toh misaal ban javegi; aur misaalein di jaati hai beta, bhooli nahi jaati."

(If you win silver, people will forget you tomorrow. If you win gold, you will become a role model – and role models are remembered, not forgotten.)

So said Aamir Khan, portraying Mahavir Singh Phogat in the 2016 Bollywood film Dangal, to his elder daughter Geeta before her gold medal match at the 2010 Commonwealth Games. It was Geeta’s chance to etch her name in history as the first Indian woman to win a wrestling gold at the CWG.

A similar situation awaits the Indian women’s cricket team, which on Sunday (November 2) in Navi Mumbai, will have the chance to create history by winning their maiden ICC title.

India have reached the Women’

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