India, Nov. 3 -- India created history with their maiden women's cricket World Cup victory, beating South Africa by 52 runs in an emotional and deeply memorable final at the DY Patil Stadium on Sunday night. The victory has been hailed as a potential watershed moment for cricket in India, marking the nation's first senior ICC trophy triumph in the women's game.

The impact of the tournament is already greater than ever before, purely based on the prize pool on offer and the prize money that the Indian team will take away. The overall prize money on offer saw a fourfold increase from the last edition of this tournament, held in New Zealand in 2022: there was a total prize pool of 13.88 million US dollars (roughly INR 123 crore), up from 3....