When D. Hemalatha went for her first choice trials for the Tamil Nadu ladies’s cricket group, some 10 years in the past, solely 60-odd gamers had turned up.
“This time around there were about 450 players and that number could become much larger in the coming years, because of the Women’s Premier League,” Hemalatha, who will play for Gujarat Giants within the match starting on March 4, mentioned at a web-based interplay on Friday.
She mentioned ladies’s cricket in India made a whole lot of progress from the time the ladies like her requested to watch out whereas enjoying due to the probabilities of getting damage. “Now coaches say getting hurt is okay,” she mentioned. “Women’s cricket has indeed changed a lot in India over the last few years.”
Hemalatha, the batting all-rounder who has performed 9 ODIs and 15 T20Is however wasn’t capable of make it to the Indian group for the T20 World Cup in South Africa, believes the WPL will present an enormous platform for gamers like her.
She is delighted that she has joined Gujarat Giants, which boasts abroad stars like Ashleigh Gardner, Beth Mooney, Deandra Dottin and Sophia Dunkley. “I have played against them,” she mentioned. “We have a good set of all-rounders in our time.”
She mentioned all of the 5 WPL sides have been sturdy. Was there any facet she would personally need Gujarat Giants to beat? “Royal Challengers Bangalore,” she mentioned. “They have (fine players like) Megan Schutt.”
Looking again at her journey, she mentioned she had begun late. “I didn’t know that women’s cricket existed till I began playing,” she mentioned. “I was 18 when I began playing cricket – purely as a fielder.”
She might have begun late, however she has come a good distance. So lengthy that Gujarat Giants was prepared to pay Rs .30 lakh for her companies.
Source web site: sportstar.thehindu.com
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