India’s youngest T20I debutante trained as a boy as no Rohtak academy would admit girls

Rohtak teenager Shafali Verma, who contributed to India’s 51-run win over South Africa in Surat on Tuesday, started her cricket training in the guise of a boy as there were no academies for girls in her hometown. The 15-year-old batswoman chopped her hair on the instructions of her father after every cricket academy in Haryana’s Rohtak district refused her admission.

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