{"id":177663,"date":"2025-09-29T13:55:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T13:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/177663\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T13:55:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T13:55:07","slug":"tendulkar-views-cwc25-as-watershed-moment-for-womens-cricket-icc-womens-cricket-world-cup-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/177663\/","title":{"rendered":"Tendulkar views CWC25 as watershed moment for women\u2019s cricket | ICC Women&#8217;s Cricket World Cup, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Revisiting his own experience of being star-struck by his childhood heroes as a ball boy at the 1987 Men&#8217;s Cricket World Cup in India, Tendulkar added, &#8220;Standing on the sidelines that day, watching heroes up close, I resolved that one day I too would wear that India jersey.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow, nearly four decades later, I sense that women\u2019s cricket in India stands on the cusp of its own watershed moment. The upcoming ICC Women\u2019s World Cup will not just be about chasing a trophy; it will be about igniting countless dreams.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The ICC Hall of Famer believes the tournament will see some of the finest in the game spark hopes to countless dreams.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSomewhere in Moga, a teenage girl might be clutching her bat tighter, hoping to emulate her idol <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icc-cricket.com\/tournaments\/womens-cricket-worldcup-2025\/news\/harmanpreet-kaur-targets-world-cup-glory-for-india\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Harmanpreet Kaur<\/a>. In Sangli, another girl might be practicing her drives, daring to dream like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icc-cricket.com\/tournaments\/womens-cricket-worldcup-2025\/news\/mandhana-s-belief-remains-strong-after-australia-challenge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Smriti Mandhana<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.icc-cricket.com\/tournaments\/womens-cricket-worldcup-2025\/official-broadcasters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Broadcast Details for the ICC Women&#8217;s Cricket World Cup<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Revisiting his own experience of being star-struck by his childhood heroes as a ball boy at the 1987&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177664,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,95832,95830,95836,95846,95842,95845,95843,1950,95844,95841,95847,95853,95852,95833,7301,95851,95835,95834,90626,95839,95840,95849,85,95848,95850,95838,95831,95837],"class_list":["post-177663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-cricket-breaking-news","tag-cricket-headlines-today","tag-cricket-live-score","tag-cricket-match-highlights-today","tag-cricket-match-live-streaming-score","tag-cricket-match-result-today","tag-cricket-match-today-live","tag-cricket-news","tag-cricket-results-today","tag-cricket-scorecard-live","tag-cricket-series-updates","tag-cricket-world-cup-live-score","tag-cricket-world-cup-news","tag-cricket-world-news","tag-icc","tag-icc-cricket-updates","tag-international-cricket-live-score","tag-international-cricket-news","tag-latest-cricket-news","tag-latest-cricket-scores","tag-live-cricket-match-update","tag-odi-cricket-live-score","tag-sports","tag-t20-cricket-live-score","tag-test-cricket-live-score","tag-today-cricket-live-score","tag-today-cricket-news-update","tag-todays-cricket-match-score"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}