JULY 23, 2017, London. On a rainy evening at the Lord’s, the Indian women were well on the course to make history in the ODI World Cup final against England, with Punam Raut and Veda Krishnamurthy putting them in a commanding position. So much so that they would have been crowned champions even if the rest of the evening was rained off as they were ahead of the DLS score by 14 runs after 42 overs in the chase.
They were inching towards getting hold of the trophy that had remained elusive. The longawaited dream was on the horizon, except that it didn’t. Shrubsole trapped Raut on the pads and ran through the rest of the batting as India crumbled from 189/3 to 219/10, falling short by a meagre nine runs. The pressure had got to them.
“They needed around 30 odd runs, and this Mexican wave started. I called up Biju (George) sir (the fielding coach) and I said, ‘I’m very much worried now.’ Because what happens, you start panicking now and that is exactly what happened.
By the time the entire round of the wave ended, we had lost three to four wickets. And that cost us the game,” said the then head coach Tushar Arothe.
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