India, Oct. 25 -- Women's cricket in India changed that day in 2017 when Harmanpreet Kaur hit the Aussies out of the park in a World Cup semi-final, scoring an astonishing unbeaten 171 off 115 balls. Mithali Raj's team fumbled in the finals at Lord's, but women's cricket in India took off that British summer. On Thursday, Kaur led India to another World Cup semi-final. In the past eight years, Kaur, Smriti Mandhana, and Deepti Sharma, all from the class of 2017, have become stars in a nation obsessed with male superstars. The Fire Burns Blue: A History of Women's Cricket in India (2018) by Sidhanta Patnaik and Karunya Keshav chronicles the early years of women's cricket in India, how the pioneers such as Shantha Rangaswamy and Diana Eduljee braved an indifferent environment to create the space for later stars such as Sandhya Aggarwal, Mithali Raj and Jhulan Goswami. The rest, as they say, is history....