Gongadi Trisha’s journey to U19 cricket glory began when her father gifted her a plastic bat at age 2. From early training to World Cup success, read her inspiring story.
Trisha Gongadi emerged as India’s brightest cricketing star at the U19 World Cup, picking up three wickets in the final and leading India to the ultimate junior triumph.
In 10 innings prior to the final, the opening batter had piled a hundred, two half-centuries and two 40s, at an average of 64.8. The youngster had started cricket at age 2, as her sports-mad father planned a perfect junior career, culminating in the India win by 9 wickets.
On Sunday, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, every time South Africa were looking to change gears she came up with a breakthrough. With her brisk leg-spin, she had earlier picked up seven wickets in the tournament and is the leading run-scorer with 309 runs and was adjudged the Player of the Tournament.
In his memoir Black and White: The Way I See It, Richard Williams, the father of Serena and Venus, writes he brought a second-hand tennis racquet even before his first daughter Yetunde was born. Andre Agassi’s father hung tennis balls over his crib, so that his eyes got used to the ball’s movements. László Polgár, a psychologist, started training his three daughters in chess from the age of four, and resolved to prove that women could challenge men through early exposure to the game.
Rami Reddy fits into the annals of sports, where the father figure looms big. It’s what helped Trisha become the first U-19 Indian woman cricketer to score an international hundred and India’s brightest spark in the junior T20 World Cup, as well.
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