Following India’s historic Girls’s World Cup victory, an previous controversial remark by former BCCI chief N. Srinivasan has resurfaced, the place he mentioned “I will by no means let girls’s cricket develop in India.”

New Delhi: Following Indian girls’s staff historic World Cup triumph on Sunday, a controversial comment by former BCCI president N. Srinivasan has resurfaced, the place he allegedly mentioned former India captain Diana Edulji that he would “by no means let girls’s cricket develop in India.”

At a 2017 occasion, after Harmanpreet Kaur smashed an impressive 171 within the semifinal of the Girls’s World Cup towards Australia, Diana recalled her first intercation with Srinivasan after he was appointed because the BCCI president in 2011. She mentioned, “When Mr. Srinivasan turned president, I went to congratulate him on the Wankhede Stadium. He mentioned, ‘If I had my approach, I wouldn’t let girls’s cricket occur.’ He hates girls’s cricket.”

“I’ve all the time been a BCCI basher, proper from the day girls’s cricket got here below the BCCI fold in 2006. BCCI is a really male-chauvinist organisation. They by no means needed girls to dictate phrases or get into this area. I used to be very vocal proper from my taking part in days,” she had mentioned.

India gained its maiden Girls’s World Cup title

India gained the maiden Girls’s Cricket World Cup title after securing an exciting 52-runs victory over South Africa on Sunday, led by a formidable all-round performances from each Deepti Sharma and Shafali Verma.

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Opening batter Verma, who was initially not included within the 15-member squad earned a call-up as an damage alternative for Pratika Rawal, she scored a career-best 87 off 78 deliveries serving to India attain 298/7 of their 50 overs after being put in to bat.

South Africa’s hopes light after skipper Wolvaardt’s wicket

South Africa have been all out at 246 in 45.3 overs whereas chasing, with their hopes fading as soon as captain Laura Wolvaardt fell for 101. Deepti Sharma sealed the win by choosing the final wicket, ending with a formidable figures of 5/39 in 9.3 overs.

India’s World Cup-winning skipper Harmanpreet Kaur additionally delivered a refined response on Sunday to those that had doubted her staff, “I feel criticism can be part of life. It’s not obligatory that all the things must be good,” she informed reporters.

“Criticism is without doubt one of the most important issues in life as a result of it brings steadiness. In any other case, if all the things goes properly, you’ll be overconfident. I don’t blame those that criticize, as a result of we all know once we aren’t doing one thing proper.

Harmanpreet displays on carrying the  momentum ahead

“I don’t have a lot to say, however I prefer to preserve each issues balanced. When good issues occur, I don’t go too excessive; when dangerous issues occur, I don’t dig deep. For me, an important factor is to remain balanced, and I attempt to ship the identical message to my teammates. When all the things goes properly — it’s okay, properly achieved, however now we have now to keep up it. And even when issues aren’t going properly, we attempt to preserve everybody collectively in order that we are able to raise that individual up.”