A file picture of D. Hemalatha at a observe session. Hemalatha, who will play for Gujarat Giants in the Women’s Premier League that begins on March 4, famous some adjustments in ladies’s cricket in an internet interplay on Saturday 24, 2023.
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When D. Hemalatha went for her first choice trials for the Tamil Nadu ladies’s cricket crew, some 10 years in the past, solely 60-odd gamers had turned up.
“This time around there were about 450 players and that number could become much larger in the coming years, because of the Women’s Premier League,”
Hemalatha, who will play for Gujarat Giants in the event starting on March 4, stated at an internet interplay on Friday.
‘Getting hurt is okay’
She stated ladies’s cricket in India made a lot of progress from the time the women like her requested to watch out whereas enjoying due to the potentialities of getting damage. “Now coaches say getting hurt is okay,” she stated. “Women’s cricket has indeed changed a lot in India over the last few years.”
Hemalatha, the batting all-rounder who has performed 9 ODIs and 15 T20Is however wasn’t in a position to make it to the Indian crew for the T20 World Cup in South Africa, believes the WPL will present a huge platform for gamers like her. She is delighted that she has joined Gujarat Giants, which boasts abroad stars like Ashleigh Gardner, Beth Mooney, Deandra Dottin and Sophia Dunkley. “I have played against them,” she stated. “We have a good set of all-rounders in our time.”
She stated all the 5 WPL sides have been sturdy. Was there any facet she would personally need Gujarat Giants to beat?
“Royal Challengers Bangalore,” she stated. “They have (fine players like) Megan Schutt.”
Looking again at her journey, she stated she had begun late. “I didn’t know that women’s cricket existed till I began playing,” she stated. “I was 18 when I began playing cricket – purely as a fielder.”
She might have begun late, however she has come a good distance. So lengthy that Gujarat Giants is prepared to pay Rs .30 lakh for her providers.
