Navi Mumbai: Harmanpreet Kaur now knows how it feels to win a World Cup. It was her self-belief that kept her and her team going over nine matches across five weeks ending with her lifting the Cup on Sunday.

“There were ups and downs but the team had self-belief. We weren’t looking to the left or right. We were only looking straight at our main goal that was to lift the trophy,” said Kaur with the Cup placed in front of her on the table while addressing the media after the final.

In August this year, Kaur, ace batters Smriti Mandhana and Jemimah Rodrigues were at the 50-day countdown to the start of the World Cup in Mumbai and were determined to emulate their male counterparts who achieved World Cup glory at home in 2011.

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