The Indian women’s cricket team has just won their first-ever ICC World Cup title.

Across India, the celebrations are everywhere, in living rooms, on rooftops, on the streets.

And then, the BCCI declared a Rs 51 crore reward.

People called it women’s cricket’s “1983 moment.”

Because 42 years ago, another Indian team had changed the country’s relationship with cricket forever.

But maybe, just maybe, this moment is bigger than any before it.

Not because it outshines 1983, but because it carries the weight of a fight far older, far deeper, than just one tournament.

For decades, women’s cricket in India survived quietly: unseen, unheard and left to fend for itself.

From 1972 to 2006, it was run not by the BCCI, but by a small determined body called the Women’s Cricket Association of In

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