In a monumental announcement, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has declared a record-breaking cash prize of INR 51 crore for the Indian women’s cricket team, following their historic title victory at the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup 2025. This moment marks a new chapter in India’s sporting history, as the national women’s team clinched the World Cup trophy for the first time ever, rewriting cricketing legacy and elevating the status of women’s cricket globally.

Largest Collective Reward in Women’s Cricket

The mammoth reward announced by BCCI will be distributed across the entire champion ecosystem — including players, support staff, and the national selection committee. Along with this, the team also earned approximately INR 40 crore (USD 4.48 million) from ICC as official tournament prize money, placing this as one of the biggest accumulated payouts ever in women’s cricket.

Leadership Applauds National Pride and Sporting Excellence

Congratulating the team, BCCI President Mithun Manhas hailed this victory as a triumph of unmatched resilience, refined talent, mental toughness, and disciplined preparation. He emphasized that this milestone is not accidental — it is a direct return on years of strategic push, policy design, ecosystem development, and professionalization of women’s cricket within the country.

Victory Rooted in Long-Term Structural Investments

BCCI leadership underscored that this success stems from long-term planning and structural strengthening of the women’s game — including robust pathways, high-performance systems, domestic tournaments, academy talent pipelines, and dedicated national frameworks built to nurture and elevate the women’s side.

The Board stated that this World Cup triumph strengthens their resolve to accelerate the next decade of women’s cricket development in India — through:

• Expansion of domestic women’s cricket calendar
• Higher scouting and talent identification programs
• Upgraded grassroots facilities and regional academies
• Better professional support ecosystem for women cricketers
• Greater parity and recognition standards in sport

Final That Cemented Legends

The final against South Africa was a spectacle of grit and brilliance — with Harmanpreet Kaur, Shafali Verma (Player of the Match), and Deepti Sharma (Player of the Tournament) delivering defining match-winning performances that have now secured their name among the most dominant icons of world cricket.

A Sporting Victory That Becomes a Social Movement

This achievement is being celebrated as much more than a sporting victory. It represents a deeper cultural shift — inspiring millions of girls across India and strengthening the movement of women breaking barriers, rising in leadership, and claiming rightful space and voice across public life.

This moment symbolizes courage, belief and purpose — a reminder that when women rise with fearless conviction, they alter the entire arc of possibility, not just on the field but in society, industry, policy and nation-building.

New Era of Women’s Sport in India Begins

Leaders from government, sport, business and social sectors have hailed this as a landmark moment that will accelerate interest, investment and participation in women’s sports on an unprecedented scale.

The World Cup win is not just India’s greatest women’s cricket achievement — it is the beginning of a new era. An era of ambition, respect, scale, and unstoppable momentum — where Indian women in sport are no longer asking for recognition, they are defining history and commanding it.