If the semi-final win against Australia was emotional - captain Harmanpreet Kaur was unable to hold back tears in the dugout - the day India finally lifted their first-ever Women's World Cup was filled with nothing but smiles. A beaming Harmanpreet walked into the press conference room, bringing the trophy along. The emotion this time was of a different kind, like the buzz of a dream realised. And the one word she kept returning to was "self-belief".

One of the first questions, inevitably, was about the feeling of finally touching a trophy that had long eluded India.

"I'm just trying to express what I'm feeling. I'm numb, I'm not able to understand," Harmanpreet said. "So, it's just that there were ups and downs, but the team had self-belief. I've been saying this since day one. We w

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