Indian Women’s Captain Hits Back At A Reporter For Pointless Question

Jun 23, 2017 at 4:31 PM

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Indian Women’s Captain Hits Back At A Reporter For Pointless Question
“Do you ask the same question to a male cricketer? Do you ask them who their favourite female cricketer is? I have always been asked who’s your favourite [male] cricketer but you should ask them who their favourite female cricketer is?,” This was what Mithali Raj – the Indian women’s team skipper replied to a reporter when she asked about who her favourite male cricketer? In India, where men’s cricket is followed as a religion, hardly we see the women’s cricket getting the same attention.
There is hardly any telecast of women’s cricket and with the outgoing of some officials, from BCCI, who took steps to reform women cricket, the condition of women’s cricket has been brought back to where it was earlier.Women’s cricket team is still struggling for a place in this country and social media has been the only source where one can be attached to get full information of it. The Indian fans were restrained of epic record when Julan Goswami became the highest ever wicket taker in women cricket in ODIs, as there was no telecast. Nor the fans could witness Poonam Raut and Deepti Sharma creating a world record of highest ever runs for any wicket in women’s cricket when they shared 320 runs for the first wicket. In this country, women’s cricket is still fighting for recognition,

“There’s a lot of difference because we are not regular on television. Now the BCCI has made an effort that the last two home series have been televised and social media has improved a lot of it but there is a still a lot of catch-ups to do in terms of recognition,” said Mithali  Raj.

The skipper though stressed on the fact that the follow men’s cricket, as it is a  bar setter for them, from where they learn a lot,

“Men’s cricket sets the bar. We are always trying to reach where they set the standard. All of us follow men’s cricket because we want at some point that women’s cricket would be up there. All of us at some point have been coached by a male cricketer. I strongly believe that they get a lot of intensity into the training sessions. They are very hard taskmasters.”

Meanwhile, the eleventh edition of Women World Cup is all set to kick off on 24 June with the final slated to be played on July 23. Indian women’s team is one of the strongest contenders to win the cup. India will take on none other than host’s  England in their first game of the tourney on June 24 at Country Ground in  Derby. They will also face arch rival Pakistan in the tournament on July 2 at the same venue.

India Squad: Mithali Raj (Captain), Harmanpreet Kaur, Veda Krishnamurthy, Mona Meshram, Punam Raut, Deepti Sharma, Jhulan Goswami, Shikha Pandey, Ekta Bisht, Sushma Verma, Mansi Joshi, Rajeshwari Gayakwad, Poonam Yadav, Nuzhat Parveen, Smriti Mandhana.

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