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On November 2, 2025, the forever wait finally ended. At the DY Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai, where the crowd never stopped singing, even through the drizzle at the start, India’s women lifted their first-ever ICC trophy. A 52-run victory over South Africa, in front of a packed house and rewrote the history books

It was more than just a win. It was closure for the heartbreaks of 2005, 2017, and 2020. And on the electric night, when emotions rained as heavily as the clouds above.

Shafali Verma wasn’t even supposed to be there. Left out of the original squad till the league stage ended, she was brought in as a late replacement and ended up changing everything.

In sport, such fairytales are rare. Most replacements don’t even get a game; Shafali got a stage, and she

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