NAVI MUMBAI, India (AP) — When India captain Harmanpreet Kaur latched on to a catch to clinch the Women’s Cricket World Cup final against South Africa on Sunday, it ended a decades-long wait for her and the country to finally lift the trophy.

It may also have changed the face of women’s cricket.

India has long been a global power in the men’s game but had to wait until now to finally become world champion on the women’s side.

And it wasn’t for a lack of trying.

India made its World Cup debut as host in 1978, then made the final in 2005 and 2017 — losing to Australia on the first occasion and England on the second.

Kaur was on the team in 2017, and scored a scintillating 171 not out against Australia earlier in the tournament — an innings that made the cricket world take notice of the

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