#Part3 of Behind the Stats 27.02.2026 In the freezing dawn of January 1978, a handful of young Indian women stepped off a rattling train onto the platform of Eden Gardens in Calcutta. They clutched battered kit bags and geometry textbooks alike. Some were barely out of high school, others held bank clerk jobs, but all were charged with an impossible task: represent India at its first-ever Women’s Cricket World Cup. For Diana Edulji – a 22-year-old clerk with Western Railways