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Eighteen years after Chak De! India gave the country its most unforgettable sports redemption arc, real life decided to echo fiction — and perhaps even outdo it. On Sunday, Amol Muzumdar, coach of the Indian women’s cricket team, delivered what fans are calling the “real-life Kabir Khan moment." Under his guidance, the Women in Blue scripted history, lifting their first-ever ICC Women’s World Cup trophy after defeating South Africa by 52 runs in Mumbai.

The Real-Life Kabir Khan Moment

In Chak De! India (2007), Shah Rukh Khan’s Kabir Khan redeems himself as the disgraced former India men’s hockey captain who leads a divided women’s team to World Cup victory. In Muzumdar’s story, life mirrors art — a domestic cricket legend who never got his international cap, now

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