The coming of age of Indian women's cricket

No longer hampered by timidity of the past, Indian team's newfound aggression is a delight to watch

‘You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?’

Indian captain Mithali Raj apparently enjoys a bit of Rumi. It calms her down before going out to bat, she says. Fittingly then, crawling is not something that would’ve been discussed much when the team embarked on its quest to win a maiden World Cup. Flying, it had to be then. And keeping with Raj’s motif, flown they have — and how. 

It is difficult to put the enormity of what India has done in England and Wales into proper context. There is a strong chance of understating