Nobody accepted me: Mandira Bedi recalls getting snubbed by cricketers when she'd host pre-match shows

Actress Mandira Bedi recently recalled the tough times she faced when she first started off as a cricket host and commentator.

New Delhi: Actress and former cricket host and commentator Mandira Bedi recently opened up on not feeling accepted by the cricket fraternity as a female host at the beginning of her career.

In a recent interview, she recalled that she got stared down by a lot of cricketers over her questions as she asked simple questions for a layperson viewer to understand the sport.

Speaking about her experience, she told Pinkvilla, "Nobody accepted me to begin with, certainly not the people sitting on the panel. I'm friends with all the ex-cricketers now who I worked with back then as well but they didn't like that either. They didn't like that there was a woman wearing a saree, dressed up, talking cricket. Nobody fed me any lines, nobody fed me any questions. I was there to represent the layperson who doesn't know every technicality of cricket, who does not know every nuance of cricket."