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The cricketing journey of Amol Muzumdar, who guided the Indian women’s team to an epochal World Cup triumph on November 2, began in the National Capital Region — Faridabad, to be precise. On his first-class debut in February 1994, the 19-year-old wiry Mumbaikar, batting at No 4, hammered a record 260 in a Ranji pre-quarterfinal match against host Haryana at Faridabad’s Nahar Singh Stadium.

Amol’s world record was later broken twice — by Ajay Rohera of Madhya Pradesh and Bihar’s Sakibul Gani, who still holds it. However, Amol will always be remembered for that seminal knock, in which he broke the 73-year-old record of South African WFE Marx, who had scored 240 for Transvaal against Griqualand West in 1920. Minutes before surpassing Marx’s feat, the second-year co

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