When India captain Harmanpreet Kaur latched on to a catch to clinch the Women's Cricket World Cup final against South Africa it ended a decades-long wait for her and the country to finally lift the trophy.

It may also have changed the face of women's cricket, finally providing an enduring challenge to Australian supremacy.

India has long been a global power in the men's game but had to wait until now to finally become world champion on the women's side.

And it wasn't for a lack of trying.

India made their World Cup debut as host in 1978, then made the final in 2005 and 2017 — losing to Australia on the first occasion and England on the second.

Kaur was on the team in 2017, and scored a scintillating 171 not out against Australia earlier in the tournament — an innings that made the cri

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