Radha proud of Indians’ show at WBBL
The Hindu
The Sydney Sixers spinner believes the experience will help Indian team at World Cup
Radha Yadav of late has been rather busy catching — the white cricket ball and the attention.
Her two brilliant catches at the Women’s Big Bash League have hit the headlines, and her left-arm spin has been pretty effective for Sydney Sixers, too.
Radha is glad that not just she, but the entire large Indian contingent is doing well at the extremely competitive T20 women’s league Down Under. On Sunday, Melbourne Renegades’ Harmanpreet Kaur, India’s T20 captain, and all-rounder Deepti Sharma of Sydney Thunders were named the player of the matches. Indian opener Smriti Mandhana had scored 50 for Thunders in the same game, against Hobart Hurricanes.
He has worn India’s blues, albeit in an Under-19 World Cup, with K.L. Rahul, Mayank Agarwal, Harshal Patel and Jaydev Unadkat as his teammates. He has proudly adorned the Lion’s Crest — the famed Mumbai cricket logo — in all three formats. He has played with Yuvraj Singh, against Virat Kohli and Rahul Dravid and has the likes of Rahul and Joe Root in his illustrious list of dismissals. He is also a software developer for an IT giant, based in California. Virtually every middle-class Indian over the last three decades at some stage dreams of being either a cricketer or an IT professional. Saurabh Netravalkar has been combining two dreams, even after relocating to USA to pursue academics at the prestigious Cornell University in 2015.
Unlike most of the Olympic-bound athletes, who opt to train abroad before the big event, boxer Amit Panghal prefers training in home conditions prior to Paris 2024. A former World championships silver medallist and a World No. 1, Panghal won the 51kg quota place in the only chance he got. He wants to follow his own plans to script success in Paris.