After winning the title, the Indian women’s team celebrated fiercely with the former players. (Photo-Alex Davidson-ICC/ICC via Getty Images)

Women’s World Cup 2025: The Indian women’s team created history at the DY Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai. Team India defeated South Africa in the title match of the Women’s ODI World Cup and achieved the honor of becoming the Women’s Bar World Champion. After winning the title, the players of Team India celebrated a lot by giving trophies to former Indian players Mithali Raj and Jhulan Goswami. Indian captain Harmanpreet Kaur has broken her silence for the first time in this matter.

What did Harmanpreet Kaur say?

On November 2, at the DY Patil Stadium, as soon as Indian captain Harmanpreet Kaur took the catch of Nadine de Klerk off the ball of Deepti Sharma, celebration started in the entire stadium and all the fans stood up from their seats. The Indian women’s team soon lifted the World Cup trophy, but the team did not forget to thank those who came before them and who worked hard.

Harmanpreet’s team felt it necessary to give trophies to Mithali Raj, Jhulan Goswami and Anjum Chopra to recognize their efforts. Harmanpreet finally broke her silence about this and said that the entire team just wanted to respect those who came before them and worked hard against all odds.

This moment was very special

Harmpreet Kaur said on the ICC review, “We were all very sad after the defeat in the last World Cup. We knew that this was the last World Cup for Jhulan Di and Mithali Di. Smriti and I were sitting and talking, we were sad that we could not do this for them.”

He further said that but we had decided that whenever we do this in future, we will ensure that he is present in the stadium. We really wanted to capture that moment with him. It was really very special.” Harmanpreet said that everyone was there. It was really very special for us to share this moment with him. We had never thought of this moment without him.