Miracle Women: Guts to Glory ... Their Ascent, Their Story by Swayam Ganguly [Paperback]

In 2025, India's women cricket team did what generations had dreamed of – they won the ICC Women's Cricket World Cup.

Miracle Women is the story of that triumph, and of all the extraordinary women who made it possible.

Did you know? Harmanpreet Kaur hit a six so enormous during the 2009 ICC World Cup that her bat was sent to a laboratory for checking. Diana Edulji – who wrote the foreword to this book – is the first Indian woman cricketer inducted into the ICC Hall of Fame. Jemimah Rodrigues also played hockey at the national level before becoming one of India's finest batters.

From Harmanpreet Kaur and Smriti Mandhana to Mithali Raj, Jhulan Goswami and the young guns of the 2025 World Cup squad, sports author Swayam Ganguly traces the full arc of Indian women's cricket – the history, the heartbreak, the controversies, and the hard-won glory. Many of these players were taunted in their formative years, dismissed, overlooked – only to be celebrated by the same people once they lifted the trophy.

Foreword by Diana Edulji, ICC Hall of Fame inductee and pioneer of Indian women's cricket.

An essential read for every Indian cricket fan.