For years, Amol Muzumdar waited for a call that never came. He watched teammates rise to glory while his own 11,167 first-class runs were never enough for a Test cap.

But on a muggy night in Navi Mumbai, all that anguish quietly flipped into redemption, as the man once labelled the “greatest Indian cricketer never to play for India” stood behind a historic triumph—the country’s first ICC Women’s World Cup title. Advertisement

Muzumdar didn’t bask in the spotlight. He didn’t drop to his knees, didn’t cry, didn’t invoke the ghosts of his playing past.

He simply smiled, hugged his captain Harmanpreet Kaur and vice-captain Smriti Mandhana, and stood still, as if holding back decades of frustration that had finally found closure in silence.

This was the full-circle moment no one scripted b

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