The 17-year-old allrounder first picked up bat and ball at the age of two and has never looked back since
Where would Indian women’s cricket be without farsighted fathers?
Dorai Raj made a cricket icon out of a sleepy girl. Harmander Singh Bhullar raised his firstborn “like a son” and she went on to take India into the World Cup final with an epochal 171 not out. Shriniwas Mandhana was so smitten by left-hander batters that he ensured his naturally right-handed daughter morphed into one of the game’s most prolific left-hand openers. Ivan Rodrigues and Sanjeev Verma pushed against all sorts of obstacles to turn the first female child in their respective families into teen debutants for India.
The latest in the list of enterprising Indian dads making precocious international cricketers out of their daughters is GV Rami Reddy. G Trisha, his only child, considers him “the single biggest reason” why she has made it to the squad of 15 to represent India at the inaugural Under-19 Women’s World Cup, which kicks off in South Africa tomorrow.
