Star India wicketkeeper-batter Richa Ghosh on Monday wrote a heartwarming post on her social media, after Team India went on to break a longstanding jinx to win their maiden ICC title, a Women’s ODI World Cup trophy in Navi Mumbai on Sunday, November 2.
The big-hitting Richa belongs to North Bengal’s Siliguri, a city which also gave birth to India’s another star wicketkeeper-batter, Wriddhiman Saha.
For girls hailing from small towns and even at the start of the millennium, there was no systematic coaching. But Sunday’s win means that more ‘small town girls’ would now dare to dream of the biggest stage.
“Can someone pinch me already? 🏆,” Richa’s Instagram post read.
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Richa finished the World Cup campaign
with 260 runs from eight matches, at an average of 39.16 and a strike rate of 133.52, the highest among the top run-scorers in the tournament.
“U19. WPL. World Cup. Gotta catch ’em all 😉🏆,” Richa posted on Monday evening.
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Notably, Richa was part of the squad that won the inaugural edition of the Women’s U19 World Cup. She went on to win the Women’s Premier League title with the Royal Challengers Bengaluru last year and now has a World Cup title to her name.
For the younger brigade led by Smriti Mandhana, Jemimah Rodrigues and Richa, it signalled the dawn of a new era, one where Indian women’s cricket now stands shoulder to shoulder with the game’s global powerhouses.
As fireworks lit up the Navi Mumbai sky, the emotion on captain Harmanpreet Kaur’s face said it all; the wait was over. From heartbreak to history, India’s women had rewritten their story and this time, they wrote it in gold.
If June 25, 1983, was the watershed moment for Indian men’s cricket when Kapil’s Devils conquered the mighty Windies at Lord’s, then November 2, 2025, will stand as a defining milestone in the rise of Indian women’s cricket.
