Sarah’s ‘glove story’ an inspiration back home

Sarah Bryce shines in the Women's T20 Challenge, impressing with her keeping skills and batting prowess for Delhi Capitals.

The WPL allows a team to field a fifth foreigner as long as she comes from an associate nation. Delhi Capitals made use of that provision in the just-concluded third edition, handing the keeping gloves to Sarah Bryce of Scotland. And Bryce grabbed that opportunity with both her gloves.

She took some important catches and effected a few spectacular stumpings, two of which happened within a space of six balls in the match against UP Warriorz at Vadodara.

She was smart, agile and really quick to surprise Deepti Sharma and Tahlia McGrath. She also scored a 10-ball 21 down the order in DC’s last ball victory against Mumbai Indians.

And watching her do all that from the stands were her parents, James and Susan, who flew down from Edinburgh.

“We decided to come to India to watch the WPL as soon as she was selected by Delhi Capitals,” said James, a former university lecturer in plant science. “It was great that we could watch her play and do well.”

They had both come to India last year too, as their elder daughter Kathryn Bryce had played for Gujarat Giants.

“It is really a nice thing that the associate players are getting an opportunity at the WPL,” said the proud mother Susan, a retired geriatrics doctor at the NHS in the UK.