- 1,612
- 9
- 38
India, meanwhile, are a force to be reckoned with and in the next decade or so they will go from strength to strength.
The change happened once they got to that World Cup final at Lord's in 2017 and with the Women's Premier League coming up there is no going back. They used to be a sleeping giant but are no longer asleep. They are wide awake.
It used to be pretty much just Mithali Raj and Jhulan Goswami but you look at the players they have now - Harmanpreet Kaur, Shafali Verma, Smriti Mandhana.
Verma is still so young - she captained India to the Under-19 T20 World Cup title just recently - and Mandhana is about as elegant a cricketer as you get. She never gets ugly runs. Then in Deepti Sharma they have an outstanding bowler.
India have a lot of boxes ticked and if it is not to be for them in this World Cup it probably will be in future ones.