At a Mumbai ceremony honoring his own contributions, ICC chairman Jay Shah turned the recognition outward, declaring that Indian cricket has assumed the symbolic weight once carried by Australian dominance — not through fortune, but through years of deliberate cultivation. The dual triumphs of the men's T20 World Cup defense and the women's maiden World Cup victory mark a rare convergence of ambition and achievement, one that Shah frames not as an arrival but as the beginning of a longer obligation.