‘Will you play cricket as a girl?’ The taunts of the villagers could not stop, now 22 -year -old star destroyed Pakistan
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'Will you play cricket as a girl?' The taunts of the villagers could not stop, now 22 -year -old star destroyed Pakistan

Kranti Goud shook Pakistan.Image Credit Source: PTI

Kranti goud, team india bowler: Another World Cup, another India-Pakistan match, another well-known result. The process that started in the men's World Cup in 1992 is still going on today and the same story is being repeated again and again in the Women's World Cup. The ICC Women's World Cup 2025 also saw the same result of the match between India and Pakistan, which came out in 2022 and which has been continuously continuously since 2009. Team India defeated Pakistan in the Women's World Cup for the 5th consecutive time. This time, Team India's victory story was written by the 22 -year -old player who is playing her first World Cup, which was being tried to stop from playing till a few years ago.

Team India's 22 -year -old fast bowler Kranti Goud wreaked havoc in this match against Pakistan. But his contribution started during the batting of Team India, when in the 49th over, this young player hit a four and then brought the ball to the boundary in the 50th over. But his real wonderful revolution had to show in bowling and did not spend much time in it.

Kranti destroyed Pak batting

Sharing a new ball with Renuka Singh, Kranti kept the Pakistani batsmen tied from the beginning. Then in the 8th over, Kranti took his first wicket by dismissing Sadaf Shams and after that Alia Riyaz returned the pavilion in the 12th over. After this, when Team India had to wait for 16 overs for the next wicket and once again this success was given by this paceer coming from Madhya Pradesh.

When the Pakistani partnership was growing up, when captain Harmanpreet Kaur called the revolution again and the bowler dismissed Natalia Parvez on the very first ball. In this way, Kranti gave just 20 runs in 10 overs and took 3 wickets. For such excellent performance, Kranti Goud was awarded the Player of the Match in the World Cup for the first time.

Villagers raised questions on playing cricket as a girl

The story of revolution is also like millions and crores of women of India, whose questions arose at some time or the other. At least it is like thousands of girls who have to listen to taunts to play cricket in a sport and especially in a game. The revolution coming from a village in Chhatarpur district of Madhya Pradesh is the youngest of her 6 siblings, but she is doing the most illuminating the name of her village at this time. However, there was a time when he and his family had to listen to the burning of the rest of the village to choose cricket. She was even called why she is playing cricket as a girl.

But the revolution got full support of his family. Even at a time when his father posted in the police was lost. Seeing the elder brother of his village playing cricket, especially while bowling fast, Kranti also made it his passion and then the process of learning cricket started. However, before meeting a coach, Kranti showed his light in a local tournament.

The star of victory in the first match

In an interview, Kranti had told that there were 2 teams of girls in the local tournament, out of which players were falling short. Kranti also came to see this match and someone there asked him about playing. There was no question of refusal and what happened then shocked everyone. Kranti took 3 wickets in the match and also won the Player of the Match, scoring 25 runs. Coach Rajiv Bilthare, who runs an academy from here, recognized the talent of the revolution and then turned him into the player who flown Pakistan's flag in Colombo.

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