As the sun played hide and seek amid the gloomy skies of Navi Mumbai and the cricketing action took an occasional pause, one thing remained constant throughout the India vs Bangladesh fixture of the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup 2025 — the unrelenting passion of the crowd. In a match marred by multiple rain interruptions, two of which lasted as long as two hours, not once did the spirits in the stands waver. Every run and every wicket were met with the same thunderous cheers right until the last ball was bowled.
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Mumbai has long been hailed as the home of cricket in India, a city where passion for the sport is believed to run deeper than anywhere else in the country. That enthusiasm has been reaffirmed with consecutive record-breaking attendances during India’s fixtures at th
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