NEW DELHI: Sanjay and Seema Sehrawat from South Delhi have two daughters and a son. The daughters took up sports activities early however the son was once now not . Years after elder daughter Swathi Quit cricket to concentrate on teachers, Shweta is now only a step clear of turning into an U-19 World Cup winner. She is the celebrity batter of the workforce which is able to conflict with England within the ultimate on Sunday.
For years, Sanjay attempted telling his friends that his daughter was once just right at cricket however no person troubled. The couple went to each and every recreation the daughter performed. As Shweta went about powering India to the inaugural U-19 World Cup ultimate over remaining fortnight, Sanjay began receiving calls from the similar friends.
,Arey yaar teri beti toh bahut achcha khelti hai, (Mate, your daughter is a great participant),” they tell Sanjay. “These other folks have learned now that Shweta in reality performs cricket,” Sanjay laughed.
Shweta is firm on staying away from this new-found attention until she gets the job done for her team against England. “Almost the entire ladies in her workforce have given interviews on some platform. She advised me that she’s going to simplest do interviews after the World Cup is over. We have simply spoken to her over textual content messages within the remaining couple of days,” Sanjay advised TOI on Saturday.
These are thrilling occasions in girls’s cricket. It is incessantly turning into a viable profession choice. Shweta has been into sports activities from her pre-teens. Her father took her to the academy the place his elder daughter educated as a bowler. “Shweta confirmed glimpses of her ability when she performed with the tennis ball towards boys when she was once simply 8 years previous. The trainer on the academy was once so inspired that he insisted she will have to educate with the leather-based ball,” Sanjay said.
“She was once just right in lots of sports activities. She single-handedly helped her faculty win inter-zonal volleyball championships. She was once just right at badminton and likewise did somewhat of skating,” the proud father added.
Shweta’s hobby in cricket peaked when she watched a girls’s T20 World Cup fit between India and Pakistan on the Ferozeshah Kotla in 2016. “She insisted she sought after to look at that fit. She were given within the recreation from there. A 12 months past due, she watched Harmanpreet Kaur ranking that 171 now not out towards Australia in a World Cup semifinal. She was once hooked to cricket through then and watched the entire suits on TV. She began following Harmanpreet, Smriti Mandhana and Virat Kohli,” Sanjay said.
Shweta’s journey took a turn when she took on current India U-19 captain and established international star Shafali Verma’s Haryana team in U-16 cricket. “Shweta was once a bowling all rounder. She scored a half-century batting at No. 7 and received the fit for Delhi. She was once promoted up the order after that,” Sanjay recalled.
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Shweta’s elder sister gave up cricket because she chose to study science after passing class X. But Sanjay and Seema left it to Shweta, who studied at Modern School, to decide what she wanted to do. “Our simplest situation was once that she had to whole upper secondary training. She took up humanities after magnificence X. We had been satisfied she would change into a cricketer. I had noticed the woman smash her bat in a couple of days as a result of she would hit the ball so It’s onerous of their youngsters,” Sanjay said.
The father was not let down by his daughter. “Shweta selected arts to concentrate on cricket however she advised us she sought after to finish her commencement. That’s why she wrote to NCA that she would now not be capable to attend the U-19 camp in May-June as she had her board tests. head VVS Laxman made an exception for her and a sked her to sign up for later. She was once one of the most simplest two centurions in that event in Anantapur,” he mentioned.
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Sanjay says he doesn’t give Shweta any advice. “She has achieved all of it through herself. I’m only a proud father,” he said.
Irrespective of what happens on Sunday, Shweta has already made her parents proud and lived her sister’s dream.
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