‘Sir, I can do it. Are you ready?’ The coaches who made Jemimahs and Kaurs – architects of India’s World Cup win

The players will remain the faces of this victory. They deserve every bit of it. But the coaches, too, deserve their moment. They believed in them before anyone else did. They picked up these champions when their confidence was broken. When the dream looked buried under dust, the Prashants, Pawans, and Nagesh Guptas dusted it off and handed it back.