The biggest news today isn't that France or Spain has reached the World Cup final. They've been there before. They've won before. The most significant thing to take in with this morning's cuppa is that India's women in whites won their maiden Test at Lord's on Monday. They got their first opportunity at playing a Test at the home of cricket. And it was glorious.
The moment when it came was quintessentially Indian cricket. A tossed-up off-break with plenty of revs on it drew the bat forward. The ball dropped as it does when the best offies love it, and broke sharply enough off the surface to sneak between bat and pad and clatter into the stumps.
