India’s Virat Kohli watches as he hits a six throughout the T20 World Cup cricket match between India and Pakistan in Melbourne, Australia, Sunday, Oct. 23, 2022.
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Sophie Devine is one of the hardest hitters in girls’s cricket and is a fierce competitor, too. There is to her an endearing lighter aspect as properly.
The different night time, after scoring her first fifty of the Women’s Premier League, she was talking about her Royal Challengers Bangalore teammate and seamer Megan Schutt’s batting. “I think she hasn’t got a chance to bat for Australia for five years,” Devine stated. “She is going to ask Smriti [Mandhana] to send her up the order.”
Royal Challengers Bangalore’s Sophie Devine performs a shot throughout the match in opposition to Delhi Capitals’ in the Women’s Premier League (WPL), at the Brabourne Stadium, in Mumbai on March 5, 2023.
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Four years in the past, throughout a match at the Women’s T20 Challenger (the precursor to the WPL), she requested her teammate Anuja Patil to tie rival batter Smrit’s each footwear collectively — when the left-handed wanted some assist together with her shoelaces — in order that they may get her out.
Now in the WPL, The New Zealand captain opens with Smriti and bowls medium-pace underneath her captaincy. She is delighted to be half of RCB.
“Having watched RCB at the IPL, and all their quality players, it is an honour to be part of the team for WPL,” Devine informed The Hindu. “To be here and finally be in the RCB colours is something I have been looking forward to.”
Sophie Devine of Royal Challengers Bangalore throughout the WPL 2023 match in opposition to Delhi Capitals at Brabourne Stadium on March 5, 2023 in Mumbai, India.
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Virat Kohli has been her favorite RCB cricketer. “His competitive nature is something I relate to,” stated Devine. “I enjoyed watching his innings against Pakistan in the T20 World Cup. That straight six (off Haris Rouf) was the shot of the year in cricket. You have to admire the batsmanship to execute that shot.”
As for Indian girls’s cricket, she stated it was scary to assume what the WPL may do to it, given what the WWBL and The Hundred have been doing to Australia and England. “Look at the population of India,” she says. “I think the WPL’s impact will be visible in the years to come.”
