For more than a decade since their Champions Trophy win in 2013, no Indian senior team had tasted victory in any ICC event in any format. The semi-finals and beyond had been a constant for the Indian men’s in the period before slip-ups while the women’s team also suffered heart-breaking defeats in summit clash.

Former India captain Rohit Sharma was in attendance on Sunday at the iconic DY Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai when the Women in Blue broke the agonising title jinx by clinching their maiden World Cup title, beating South Africa by 52 runs. It is a hurdle that Rohit himself hasn’t crossed as player or captain thus far in his career – winning an ODI World Cup – a goal that he had come so close to as captain in the 2023 World Cup before conceding the summit clash to serial winners A

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