New Delhi: On the morning of the ICC Women's World Cup final, India head coach Amol Muzumdar gathered his players in a tight huddle at Navi Mumbai’s DY Patil Stadium and asked for just one thing – seven hours of total focus.

The talk, in a video shared by ICC on Instagram, felt like a real-life echo of the “Chak De! India” locker-room scene, only sharper and made for this team.

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“For the next seven hours, we cut the noise. We keep them out of our lives. We write our own story. For the next seven hours, we create history,” he told the group.

India did exactly that. Powered by Shafali Verma’s 87 off 78 balls and Deepti Sharma’s 58, the hosts posted 298/7 and then bowled out South Africa for 246 despite Laura Wolvaard

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