Amol Mazumdar Reveals How India Stayed Motivated During WC: 'We Didn't Say...'

India women’s cricket head coach Amol Mazumdar has revealed that his team never used the word ‘lost’ after the narrow four-run defeat to England in Indore that had threatened to all but end their Women’s World Cup 2025 campaign. Mazumdar said the team only saw it as not ‘crossing the line’ and discussed how the team needed someone to step up and take responsibility to finish games off.

“To be very honest, after that third loss against England — well, I can call it a loss now — the conversation in the dressing room was that we just couldn’t cross the line," Mazumdar told CNN-News18 in an exclusive chat. “Not once did we say we had lost the game. It was always, ‘We couldn’t cross the line.’ The game was in our pocket, but we let it slip away."

“The mood wasn’t great, for obvious reasons.