{"id":6298,"date":"2016-03-13T23:27:48","date_gmt":"2016-03-13T17:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=6298"},"modified":"2026-07-17T22:07:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T16:37:29","slug":"what-it-takes-for-indian-women-cricketers-to-make-it-to-the-t20-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/?p=6298","title":{"rendered":"She Pretended to Be a Boy: What It Takes for Indian Women Cricketers to Make it to the T20 World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<span class=\"dropcap\">T<\/span>he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/sports\/team-india-world-cup-defeat-grief-loss\/\">Indian men\u2019s cricket team<\/a> might be causing fans much anguish with their poor showing against New Zealand in the ongoing Test series. But not too far away, in Australia, another Indian cricket team is giving the country some reason to cheer. It\u2019s the women who have stormed into the finals at the Women\u2019s T20 World Cup after a string of thrilling victories. And with every electrifying triumph on the field, these young players are instilling fresh confidence among women back home.\n\nThis bunch of gritty girls (quite a few in their teens) could possibly change the way sports is perceived back home; in the maidans, bustling with hundreds of young boys in cricket gear, in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/culture\/library-e-books-social-media-nostalgia\/\">neighbourhoods<\/a> where men gawk or raise eyebrows when they see a girl walking out carrying a kit bag and dressed in a jersey, or in homes where fathers and brothers talk and play cricket in a world where the women of the house are mere spectators.\n\nShafali Verma is all of 16 years. She debuted for India last year, immediately inviting comparisons to the Little Master, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/sports\/sachin-tendulkar-virat-kohli-indian-cricket\/\">Sachin Tendulkar<\/a> and even went on to break his record of being the youngest Indian cricketer to score a half-century in an international game. Verma was 15 years and 285 days then. Watch her belt veteran bowlers in the ongoing T20 World Cup, and it\u2019s evident that this one is a star in the making. You\u2019d think a prodigious talent like hers would be nurtured from an early age, but you\u2019d be wrong. To be able to play in a local tournament in Haryana\u2019s Rohtak, she had to cut her hair short and pretend to be a boy. She was filling in for her sick brother. She managed to do that convincingly and even won the \u201cMan\u201d of the Series award. Her powerful hitting displays probably come from fearlessly standing up to boys as a little girl armed with just a bat in hand.\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1582905550.jpg\" alt=\"shafali_verma\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-59937\" \/>\n<figcaption>\n<p>shafali Verma, 16, debuted for India last year, immediately inviting comparisons to the Little Master, Sachin Tendulkar.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Pockett\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n\nTake another <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pov\/study-abroad-moving-out-new-city\/\">teenager<\/a> in the ranks: Jemimah Rodrigues. Like Verma, Jemimah was turned down from academies because many of them just did not accept girls to train alongside boys. She finally started training, until coaches at the academy told her not to come back to play after she got hit while batting. Years later, proudly wearing the national colours, she dives as if there is no hard ground to crash down on, and slides like she is floating on water. Her every performance is an act of defiance against what she\u2019s been told all these years: \u201cGirls cannot play cricket; it\u2019s a gentleman\u2019s game; girls can\u2019t handle getting hit like men do.\u201d\n\nIt\u2019s not easy to be a woman sportsperson in India, where even in the 2020s gender roles are clearly divided. A line from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pop-culture\/chak-de-india-hockey-shah-rukh-khan-movie\/\">Chak De! India<\/a> comes to mind. \u201cChakla belan chalane wali, hockey kya khelenge?\u201d And though the movie was about hockey, this dialogue sums up the attitude a large part of India has toward women sportspersons. Often, the opposition comes from home.\n\nPoonam Yadav\u2019s father thought she had no business playing cricket and that\u2019s when this sprightly woman, now a world-class bowler, decided to prove him and every other critic who thought that women do not belong on a cricket field, wrong. Looking at her perform at the World Cup gives me goosebumps. There she is, sporting short hair rudely chopped for comfort and held back by a hairband, a big red bindi on her forehead, intimidating top <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/humour\/india-world-cup-england-shankar-jadhav-kohli-dhoni-middle-order\/\">batsmen<\/a> with her guile; the perfect amalgamation of all that is modern and traditional in India.\n\n<blockquote class=\"quote--center\"><p>Cricket is after all a sport that is devoured by this country with great devotion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\nThese gutsy young ladies remind me of my younger days. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pov\/teachers-day-school-students-education\/\">Teachers<\/a> berating me for skipping classes to go play a tournament, neighbours chuckling or shooting bemused looks each time I went out to practice lugging my kit bag, relatives telling me I will be dark and ugly if I continued playing in the sun. I had to wear a clunky, thick pair of track pants in the sweltering Chennai afternoons so that I could take the bus each day to the tennis courts, get into this tiny dingy equipment room to change into a skirt or pair of shorts to play. I just couldn\u2019t walk through the streets wearing the very same clothes that I had confidence playing in.\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1582905551.jpg\" alt=\"indian_women_t20_world_cup\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-59938\" \/>\n<figcaption>\n<p>It\u2019s not easy to be a woman sportsperson in India, where even in the 2020s gender roles are clearly divided.<\/p>\n<p>Pacific Press \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n\nAnd many years later, watching these young cricketers celebrate every moment of triumph in Australia made me think it is just that: A bubble that bursts once they step out of that dream-laden cricket stadium. It\u2019s probably worse when it comes to certain sporting disciplines like cricket, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/sports\/wwe-women-wrestling-sexism-sports\/\">wrestling<\/a>, or boxing, which aren\u2019t considered as \u201cgraceful\u201d as swimming, archery, or badminton. How can women \u2013 beautiful, dainty beings that they are \u2013 possibly succeed in playing gruelling sports?\n\nThat is the eternal struggle of the Indian sportswoman. She will bear jibes about the length of her skirt, or how patriotic she truly is, and still end up winning <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/sports\/roger-federer-fan-rafael-nadal-2019-french-open-semifinal\/\">Grand Slams<\/a> for her country; she will wait patiently to play just 15 deliveries hours after her brother has finished net practice every day and grow up to win the ICC Cricketer of the Year award. She will bear the brunt of all ridicule and humiliation for grappling with boys and not \u201cbehaving like a girl\u201d to win medals for the country. And after conquering the world six times over, she will come home and take care of her three children along with her husband.\n\nThis year is special though. No matter what happens to this young Indian women\u2019s cricket team, the T20 World Cup could prove to be that watershed moment for all women in Indian sports. Cricket is after all a sport that is devoured by this country with great devotion. This Women\u2019s T20 World Cup could do for Indian women in sports what the World Cup win in 1983 did for a country starving for recognition on the world stage. These young women had only a few names, like Jhulan Goswami or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/sports\/mithali-raj-womens-cricket-harmanpreet-kaur-ramesh-powar-bcci\/\">Mithali Raj<\/a>, to look up to and emulate.\n\nThe entire squad now is on the cusp of inspiring tens of thousands of women in India to follow their true passion, starting by shutting out the voices that tell them they can\u2019t.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sixteen-year-old Shafali Verma is turning heads at the ongoing Women\u2019s T20 World Cup. But only a couple of years ago, she had to cut her hair short and pretend to be a boy to play cricket. 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