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The Indian women's cricket team lost to hosts England by nine runs in the final of the ICC Women's Cricket World Cup at Lord's Cricket Ground on Sunday.
Chasing a target of 229 runs, India was bowled out for 219 runs in the penultimate over, despite an 86-run-knock by Punam Raut. Harmanpreet Kaur and Veda Krishnamurthy scored 51 and 35 respectively.
Earlier in the day, Jhulan Goswami's bowling figures of 3-23 and Poonam Yadav's 2-36 had helped India restrict England for a chase-able total.
In spite of the loss, the Indian women's team managed to win hearts. Thousands of people across the country and observers around the world took to Twitter to recognise the team's performance in the tournament.
Here are some of the top tweets:
Cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar, who does not tweet too often, was virtually live tweeting as the match reached its end. He congratulated the English team and said that he felt for the Indian team.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi who had wished the Indian team with separate tweets for every players, earlier in the day, said that he was proud of the team. He said that the team showed tenacity and skills throughout the tournament.
Executive Chairman of Mahindra Group, Anand Mahindra called the loss "irrelevant".
Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar who was at Lord's to watch the match tweeted this picture of him sharing a laugh with the Smriti Mandhana and Poonam Yadav.
Even Broken Hearts Can Laugh!!
These Women have started a revolution & I couldn't be more proud
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