Star India opener Smriti Mandhana has said that even as innumerable World Cups brought heartbreaks for the team, the side believed that there was a bigger responsibility for them to keep growing women’s cricket in the country. The star batter was visibly emotional after India won their maiden ICC title.

Indian women’s cricket touched its Everest as years of toil and near-misses culminated in an evening of redemption and history for the hosts.

India’s win in the 13th edition of the global showpiece made them only the fourth team to lift the trophy, joining Australia (7 titles), England (4) and New Zealand (1) in the elite list of champions.

“ Every World Cup we have gone into, there have been so many heartbreaks for all of us. But we always believed that we had a bigger responsibility –

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