Why Women In Blue Deserve All Kudos And Goodies!

One and all are keen and eager to join the bandwagon celebrating the Women in Blue team’s spectacular and maiden ICC 50-over World Cup win. The moment skipper Harmanpreet Kaur took the last catch at the DY Patil Stadium in the presence of 45000 spectators, the merrymaking began with the team itself going gung-ho and millions in the country painting the town red so to say. It was a perfect finish to a campaign at home, especially winning three matches at a venue that brings out the best from the team. Only a fortnight ago, the team had tripped at every step — it lost to South Africa, Australia and England in the league before causing a decisive turnaround arriving at the DY Patil Stadium. Each and every player has been feted by their respective State with the Government of Maharashtra opening its purse strings and giving Rs. 2.25 crore each to Smriti Mandhana, Jemima Rodrigues and Radha Yadav. Its chief minister Devendra Fadnavis said that the full team will be felicitated at an appropriate time. Maharashtra has gone out of the way to open its heart to Radha Yadhav who has been representing Baroda in white ball competitions in the last 10 years after a solitary season for Mumbai in the BCCI’s Twenty20 tournament. Harmanpreet’s team deserves all the kudos and goodies. She went to the extent of sharing joy with Mithali Raj and Jhulan Goswami, the two stalwarts of women’s cricket who were unlucky not to lift the trophy by their own deeds on the field. Harmanpreet happily allowed them to get their hands on the trophy and feel like champions again!