As a schoolgirl, S. Yashasri performed many sorts of sports activities, however cricket wasn’t one in all them. Swimming and basketball had been.

During an inter-school sport, when she watched her teammate Pooja Vanka hitting the ball actually exhausting, she felt she too wished to bat like that. Since she was tall, she was requested to bowl tempo by her coach.

Yashasri’s progress was fast, and he or she made it to the India Under-19 squad. She was purchased by UP Warriorz on the public sale for the inaugural Women’s Premier League in Mumbai just a few days in the past.

“My mother broke the news to me,” the 19-year-old stated throughout a web based interplay on Thursday. “I had watched the early part of the auction at our home and then went to sleep.”

The medium-pacer is thrilled that she could be becoming a member of a workforce that includes a few of the largest stars in ladies’s cricket, like Alyssa Healy, who she believes will make a superb captain as a result of she is a wicketkeeper and Shabnim Ismail.

She is wanting ahead to getting ideas from Ismail, one of many most interesting seamers in ladies’s cricket. “I would particularly like to talk to her about the mental aspect,” stated the Hyderabad lady.

Yashasri is delighted that her World Cup-winning India Under-19 teammates Shweta Sehrawat and Parshavi Chopra have additionally been signed up by Warriorz.

“Shweta is a brilliant batter and power-hitter,” Yashasri stated. “And she has been my roommate on tours as well. She is a good friend, and I have known her from my time at the NCA, Bengaluru.”

She is grateful to her mother and father for the best way they supported them, although not many would have felt there was a future for a woman in cricket in India.

“I did not concentrate on my studies and went to school only for the exams, but my parents were okay with it, and they asked me to focus on cricket,” stated the lady who admires Hardik Pandya, Ben Stoke and Umesh Yadav.