When Heather Knight first travelled to India in 2010 and made her worldwide debut in Mumbai, she didn’t have a lot of an thought about Indian meals. A decade later, Knight is a ‘fan’ of Indian delicacies.
“I love Indian food… the dosas, the daals, tandoori chicken, aloo gosht… I have been here many times and really enjoy the food,” she says.
The England captain has additionally picked up some Hindi that can come in useful at Royal Challengers Bangalore.
“Some of the girls like Smriti (Mandhana) speak amazing English. But I want to communicate with everyone. I have picked up a bit of Hindi like aap kaise hai (how are you?), chalo chalo come on (come on, let’s go),” she says with a smile.
On the to-do listing for this India stint is studying Hindi music.
‘Zor se daalo, zor se…’
After a snug victory for Mumbai Indians over Royal Challengers Bangalore, the employees begins to wind down operations on the Brabourne Stadium. While the lights are switched off one after the other, one can see a bunch of Mumbai gamers having enjoyable with their colleagues and one other bunch selecting former India pacer Zaheer Khan’s brains.
And then out of nowhere, a voice goes:“ Zor se daalo, zor se…”
Following the voice leads you to Jhulan Goswami. The former India captain, who’s now the bowling coach and mentor of Mumbai Indians, makes it a degree to work with the younger bowlers who will not be that includes within the enjoying eleven.
After a medical win towards Delhi Capitals the place Mumbai’s bowlers excel, Issy Wong ideas her hat off to Jhulan for her approach of working with the group.
“The best thing about her is she knows when to say something and when to leave us to it to work it out and that’s how we get better. It’s all good when you have someone to feed you, but learning to pick the spoon up and feed yourself is how we’re going to get better. So we’ve definitely got the right balance but it’s been good to listen to Gozzy,” she says.
RCB struggles with adamant colors, fortunes
“Just wondering if this is now a permanent thing? I’ve washed my hair twice,” RCB’s Ellyse Perry tweets after spending your complete of Holi day coated in color. While the adamant colors go away fairly a couple of of the worldwide gamers stumped, some must take care of lasting impacts.
“I’m not someone who changes my hair cut or style a lot; I’ve had the same hair for the longest time. Holi was really fun but I guess I am stuck with pink hair,” Perry says as she concedes that she has given up attempting to clean the color out.
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Colour shouldn’t be the one factor refusing to go away RCB’s gamers. The facet has not been capable of open its account within the WPL thus far, shedding its first 5 video games — three of these by huge margins.
“Losing five games in a row in a brand new competition is tough. But in team sports, at least, you get to go through it all together. You just have to hang in there,” she says after RCB slumps to a 10-wicket loss towards UP Warriorz.
To Harris from Harsha
UP Warriorz’s Grace Harris wows spectators and, frankly even perhaps her opponents, together with her unbeaten 26-ball 59 towards Gujarat Giants that seals an exciting three-wicket win. The spunky Aussie is as gregarious off the pitch as she is with the bat, successful hearts by publicly declaring her love for burgers.
“I love burgers, although I don’t know where I’ll find one in India,” Harris tells broadcaster Harsha Bhogle after her player-of-the-match-winning efficiency.
In the subsequent sport towards Delhi Capitals, Harris is benched to accommodate South African pacer Shabnim Ismail within the line-up. And she doubles up as a dugout cheerleader for the Warriors. But what cheers her up much more is a particular supply from Bhogle – a burger, which was promptly delivered throughout one of many dugout interviews.
“I love burgers, they’re the complete meal, Harsha,” she says, completely delighted. The 29-year-old additionally shares her flavour preferences, in case anybody seems like ordering her one – “Double chicken breast, double cheese and maybe a little bit of bacon, that’s my favourite,” she states.
Wolvaardt the actor
It was fairly an entrance for wristy opening bat Laura Wolvaardt within the Gujarat Giants setup.
Brought in as a alternative for an injured Beth Mooney, Wolvaardt’s arrival was introduced with a recreation of Shahrukh Khan’s iconic entrance sequence from the Bollywood movie Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham.
“They showed me a quick clip of it but I didn’t see the whole movie. I do hear that it’s really famous here. I have to watch it now at some point now that I’ve been an actress,” she says why a wry smile.
Wolvaardt’s textbook cowl drive will be matched in perfection maybe solely by Indian legend Mithali Raj, who’s by the way the Protean participant’s mentor within the Gujarat camp. When requested if we’ll see a who-did-it-best with the duo, the lanky opener laughed it off by saying she is right here to do all the educational and make the perfect of the chance.
“For me, it’s just about learning as much as I can. I am just happy to be here and I’ll take it from there,” she says.
Source: sportstar.thehindu.com