The roar at the DY Patil Stadium shattered the silence of two decades. On a humid November evening in Navi Mumbai, as Harmanpreet Kaur caught the final wicket and Deepti Sharma completed her five wicket haul, the Indian women's cricket team finally erased the pain of 2005 and 2017. The trophy that had eluded them twice before was theirs. India defeated South Africa by 52 runs to become world champions for the first time.​

The ICC Women's Cricket World Cup 2025, currently underway across India and Sri Lanka, has shattered every conceivable benchmark for women's cricket viewership and stadium attendance, signaling an irreversible transformation in how India consumes and celebrates the sport.