India, Nov. 30 -- From Kapil Dev lifting the World Cup at Lord's in 1983 to the Indian women becoming world champions in 2025, and then the blind women's team lighting up Colombo only days later, Indian cricket has rewritten its own story. What began as a long-shot dream has grown into a national movement built on opportunity, courage and the belief that cricket belongs to everyone. Across these four decades, the cricketing landscape in India has opened in ways once thought unlikely. The women's game, long treated as an afterthought, was rebuilt through structural reforms: improved contracts, deeper domestic pathways, age-group competitions, sports science support and a professional T20 league. Stability replaced uncertainty. So when the ...