NAVI MUMBAI: As the embers of the beautiful night melted in the dawn, Indiawomen woke up to a new reality – the World Champions. Harmanpreet Kaur and her team must have realized life will no longer be the same again.

With last night’s extraordinary viewership numbers (running above 30 crore) and the win turning into the most-discussed topic over the last 24 hours, the fortunes have changed.

The team bagged $4.48 million (Rs 40 crore) as prize money. Add to that the Rs 51 crore the Indian cricket board (BCCI) announced. Close to Rs 100 crore for the team, an amount that eclipses any figure the team received since they started playing in World Cups 50 years ago. The World Cup prize-money had seen a nine-fold increase from the runner-up $500,000 they got in 2020 at the MCG.

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