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Former Mumbai captain and cricketer Amol Muzumdar wrote a new chapter in the Indian cricket history with the win in ICC Women ODI Word Cup 2025 this month. Muzumdar was head coach of Harmanpreet Kaur’s side and opened up on what behind the making of the champion side. Speaking on JioStar’s special show ‘Celebrating Champions’ Indian womens team head coach Muzumdar reflected on the journey behind the victory the legacy of the players who paved the way and how the Women’s Premier League (WPL) has transformed the depth and confidence of the team. Speaking on JioStar’s ‘Celebrating Champions Muzumdar honored the team’s legacy saying “I truly enjoyed watching Harmanpreet Kaur Smriti Mandhana and all our players take the trophy around the boundary to their seniors who helped build womens cricket. We must respect our history to secure our future. Full credit goes to pioneers like Jhulan Goswami Mithali Raj Anjum Chopra Reema Malhotra and all the seniors from their era hats off to them for laying the foundation for this success in the Women’s World Cup.” The 50-year-old Mumbai star felt that the WPL has helped fastrack development of women cricketers in the country. “Shree Charani and Kranti Goud are perfect examples of WPL’s success. We identified them during the February tournament and by May they were playing international cricket. This shows how WPL accelerates player development. In the next four-five years we’ll see many more talented women cricketers emerging through WPL and domestic tournaments strengthening Indian cricket tremendously” Muzumdar said. The WPL 2026 mega auction is set to take place in New Delhi on November 27. On BCCI’s transformative role Muzumdar said “The BCCI’s work for womens cricket in the last three years has been phenomenal. While they took over in 2006 the recent changes have been revolutionary. Weve had three WPL editions that uncovered tremendous talent for us to develop. The pay parity introduced in 2022 was another landmark decision. Credit to BCCI for these wonderful initiatives that are now showing results in our World Cup victory.” We had honest team meeting after three successive losses: Amol Muzumdar Muzumdar who scored 11167 runs in 171 first-class matches with 30 centuries recalled the turning point in India’s campaign in the World Cup. “After three consecutive losses against Australia South Africa and England in the group stage we had a very honest team meeting. I felt we needed a blunt conversation where no barriers existed and I’m glad the players responded positively. Though the scoreboard showed losses to South Africa Australia and England we knew internally that we were playing well but failing to finish games. That realization became our turning point in the tournament” he said. On the strategic decision to keep the team grounded after their emotional semi-final victory versus Australia he said “All our hard work over the past two years wasnt just for winning the semi-final against Australia on October 30th it was meant for playing in the final of the world cup on November 2nd 2025. If we had stayed in that euphoria after beating Australia we might not have reached our ultimate goal. I wanted the team to leave that celebration behind and stay focused on the present moment. That approach made November 2nd truly special when we finally achieved our dream of lifting the Women’s World Cup trophy.”