NAVI MUMBAI: Harmanpreet Kaur ran back from short covers on the 46th over of the chase, trying to catch the ball at the DY Patil Stadium. It was not just a catch, but a dream; a destiny and a World Cup.

One they had been searching for decades with little luck. From the moment, she held on to it — one that dismissed South Africa’s Nadine de Klerk and made them World Champions — everything came to a standstill.

Kaur ran and ran and ran in joy around the ground until she ran into Arundhati Reddy and leapt on to her. Soon they were engulfed by the rest of the team — the two South Africans in the middle of the pitch trying to make sense of it — and the tears broke. They were inconsolable. However, unlike in 2017, where India lost to the ODI WC final in England, or in 2020, where Australia ham

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