When former India cricketer Sudha Shah landed at Chennai Airport on Tuesday, on her way home from Mumbai, where she had watched India lift the ICC Women’s World Cup 2025 and even posed with the trophy, she didn’t expect that a greater moment would come on her taxi ride home. “The driver had no idea who I was, but started talking about the match and wouldn’t stop till I reached home,” says Sudha. “He described how South Africa captain Laura Wolvaardt got out to a fantastic catch by Amanjot Kaur and imagined what might have happened if she’d dropped it. All the while, I just sat there thinking, women’s cricket has truly arrived.” As a Tamil Nadu selector in the early 2000s, Sudha (currently a BCCI apex council member) says that at the time, selection was more about elimination. “Only

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