For most of the world, this team arrived as World Cup champions.
For them, the journey began much earlier.
Long before the World Cup victory and the applause that followed, the Indian Women’s Blind Cricket Team was navigating realities beyond the scoreboard..
They were learning to survive, adapt, and persist. Vision lost early. Homes where treatment was out of reach.
Villages where girls weren’t expected to step outside, let alone onto a cricket field. Match fees that doubled as meals. A sport few believed they could play, and fewer still were willing to make space for.
Against assumption, convention, and invisibility, they chose the game anyway. And then they chose it again. Through discipline, relentless practice, and belief in one another, visual impairment never set the limit.
Today, they are World Cup champions. The title is undeniable, but it’s only part of the story. Behind the win are lives shaped by years of showing up.
After the World Cup, everything shifted. Respect followed. Stability followed. Possibility followed. For the players, for their families, and for the girls watching closely, imagining themselves next.
This is the story of a team that didn’t just win a tournament. It changed the future.
Credits
CEO & Editor-in-Chief: Tanya Chaitanya
Interviewed By: Iona Chatterjee
Art Director: Sameer More
Photographer & Videographer: Harish Iyer