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Amol Muzumdar: The man who never played for India, but found his India

Amol Muzumdar: The man who never played for India, but found his India

The final moments had barely faded when Amol Muzumdar quietly stepped back, watching the tricolor unfurl under the floodlights of DY Patil Stadium on Sunday. The Indian women’s team huddled together, tears and laughter blurring into one joyous blur. Cameras followed the players; fireworks crackled overhead. Amid the chaos, he simply smiled, quiet, proud, perhaps a little overwhelmed. It was a night of celebration for India. But for Muzumdar, it was also the night his life came full circle. For years, he had carried the label of Indian cricket’s great unfinished story: the boy wonder who never wore the India cap. Now, as the coach who had guided the women’s team to their maiden World Cup, that unspoken void in his life had finally been filled, not by personal triumph, but by something larger. Through them, he had found his India. The eternal next man in Born in Mumbai in 1974, Muzumdar grew up in the same cricketing nursery that produced legends. At Sharadashram Vidyamandir, under the stern but nurturing eye of Ramakant Achrekar, he …