Congrats to the ladies on Indian cricket's greatest ever white ball win (Tribute thread)

[Gollum]

3 minutes ago, deathmonger said:

Wc has arrived.

 

womens t20 wc and men’s hockey wc/olympic gold will come soon too.

 

also both cricket golds.

Nothing like hockey gold. 

[crictime]

This imo is the greatest victory now in Womens cricket for India. Finals is the match to win and so they did. 

[vvvslaxman]

"I didn't want to reveal it because my father had a heart attack just two days before I got dropped. He was still in the hospital, and I told him only after a week."  - Shafali Varma

 

 

 

Edited November 3, 2025 by vvvslaxman

[vvvslaxman]

Harmanpreet kaur can also bowl. Remember guys when SL Needed 9 runs in 2 overs to win we used RInku and SKY and won the match. This variety, surprising element can be your turning points. High time every batsman trying to bowl something. leg spin, carrom ball whatever

[NameGoesHere]

It will always be 1983 for me having watched that game on live TV.

 

This one comes a close second. 
 

Feeling proud.  
 

And if this has a fifth of the transformational impact on the women’s game as the 83 cup win had on the men, it will be huge. 

Edited November 3, 2025 by NameGoesHere

[vvvslaxman]

This Afghan girl trolling is epic lol

 

 

 

[nevada]

9 hours ago, Gollum said:

Nothing like hockey gold. 

They changed the turf to astro to steal the medals from us. 

[IndianRenegade]

1 hour ago, NameGoesHere said:

It will always be 1983 for me having watched that game on live TV.

 

This one comes a close second. 
 

Feeling proud.  
 

And if this has a fifth of the transformational impact on the women’s game as the 83 cup win had on the men, it will be huge. 

I wasn’t even born…

[crictime]

1983 Men WC was the best and ranked it the best personally, although I did not watch it. 

2011 Mens ODI WC 2nd on my list

2024 Mens T20i 3rd 

2007  Mens T20i WC 4th

2025 Womens ODI WC 5th 

[NameGoesHere]

2 hours ago, IndianRenegade said:

I wasn’t even born…

Any time I want I can close my eyes and replay Kapil Dev’s backwards running catch of Viv Richards, off Madan Lal.  
 

 

[coffee_rules]

Narishakti 

Aparshakti

Koti Naman  Vishwavijeta !!

 

  

[deathmonger]

1 hour ago, NameGoesHere said:

Any time I want I can close my eyes and replay Kapil Dev’s backwards running catch of Viv Richards, off Madan Lal.  
 

 

How did people watch it considering tvs were not so widespread?

[nitinbwj]

5 hours ago, coffee_rules said:

Narishakti 

Aparshakti

Koti Naman  Vishwavijeta !!

 

  

Jhopda ji...kaise ho 

[vvvslaxman]

Ashwin video as usual stands out from the rest. He always reserves high praise for sree charani. He explains why she was the best left arm spinner in the world cup. Also pdoggs talking about SA cricket was an interesting listen.

Edited November 3, 2025 by vvvslaxman

[NameGoesHere]

18 hours ago, deathmonger said:

How did people watch it considering tvs were not so widespread?

Most people made do with radios.  A lot learnt about it the next day reading their newspapers.

 

One colony typically had maybe 2/3 TV sets (and 5/6 phone lines come to think of it).  I’m speaking of upper middle and upper class colonies.  The rest had radios. 

 

You listened to the commentator and had to let your imagination do the rest and in our minds the players became mysterious giants, the batting an elegant craft, the bowling an arcane mystery. 

While I watch TV/ online these days and it’s great, I have never found the same excitement as that of following  a game on radio, in any other technology. When your imagination has to do the heavy lifting, it’s an experience that cannot be matched.
 

 And then imagine 5-10 people on some chai shop in the middle of nowhere listening to the game on the radio.  The jokes, the cursing (“Gavaskar Gaya, baaki sab gandoo hai “), the ‘learned analysis’, the dubious claims of having been to Eden Garden and actually watched a Test, well….what you don’t see can be more powerful in your mind. 

 

Coming back to television, there were only two companies making TV sets - EC TV and Weston.)
 

If you had a TV, well then imagine 30/40 of your neighbours, and often people you didn’t even know, squeezed into your drawing rooms.

 

Different time.  Growing up my sister and I would wait a week for a single 30 minute Charlie Chaplin episode that came on Saturday. That’s it, that was our TV watching week done. 

Edited November 4, 2025 by NameGoesHere

[Lone Wolf]

On 11/3/2025 at 8:43 AM, vvvslaxman said:

Harmanpreet kaur can also bowl. Remember guys when SL Needed 9 runs in 2 overs to win we used RInku and SKY and won the match. This variety, surprising element can be your turning points. High time every batsman trying to bowl something. leg spin, carrom ball whatever

Depends on pitch... Rinku and SKY were lucky as well.  Those were genuinely bad deliveries.

Grounds are big in SL and pitches slow.

[vvvslaxman]

5 minutes ago, Lone Wolf said:

Depends on pitch... Rinku and SKY were lucky as well.  Those were genuinely bad deliveries.

Grounds are big in SL and pitches slow.

It is not the bad bowling. It is the surprising element. LIsten to Ashwin video on how Shafali threw them off guard with simple bowling. Unfamiliarity can quiet often throw you off.

[deathmonger]

3 hours ago, NameGoesHere said:

Most people made do with radios.  A lot learnt about it the next day reading their newspapers.

 

One colony typically had maybe 2/3 TV sets (and 5/6 phone lines come to think of it).  I’m speaking of upper middle and upper class colonies.  The rest had radios. 

 

You listened to the commentator and had to let your imagination do the rest and in our minds the players became mysterious giants, the batting an elegant craft, the bowling an arcane mystery. 

While I watch TV/ online these days and it’s great, I have never found the same excitement as that of following  a game on radio, in any other technology. When your imagination has to do the heavy lifting, it’s an experience that cannot be matched.
 

 And then imagine 5-10 people on some chai shop in the middle of nowhere listening to the game on the radio.  The jokes, the cursing (“Gavaskar Gaya, baaki sab gandoo hai “), the ‘learned analysis’, the dubious claims of having been to Eden Garden and actually watched a Test, well….what you don’t see can be more powerful in your mind. 

 

Coming back to television, there were only two companies making TV sets - EC TV and Weston.)
 

If you had a TV, well then imagine 30/40 of your neighbours, and often people you didn’t even know, squeezed into your drawing rooms.

 

Different time.  Growing up my sister and I would wait a week for a single 30 minute Charlie Chaplin episode that came on Saturday. That’s it, that was our TV watching week done. 

You watched the final on TV right?

[Gollum]

22 hours ago, deathmonger said:

How did people watch it considering tvs were not so widespread?

I think TVs and live telecast of sports became a thing courtesy 1982 Asian games which we hosted. Even my father watched the 83 final on TV, at his cousin's place. I may be wrong but I think 83 semi final vs Eng was the debut of colour TV in India. 

[IndianRenegade]