"Cricket is a gentlemen's everyone's game."

The words printed on Harmanpreet Kaur's T-shirt said it all. Posing with the gleaming International Cricket Council (ICC) Women's World Cup trophy, India's captain captioned her Instagram post with heartfelt pride: "Some dreams are shared by a billion people. That's why cricket is everyone's game."

Indeed, this victory belongs not just to 15 women in blue, but to an entire nation that dared to dream with them.

Until a few months ago, women's matches struggled to find mention beyond the inside pages of newspapers. Loading Instagram content

But when India walked out to play South Africa in the World Cup final at Navi Mumbai, queues outside the stadium stretched endlessly.

Television channels ran countdown shows, social media overflowed wit

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