Jemimah and Shafali recall win against ‘tall’ Australians: ‘Ek chakka maar dete, shoulder apne aap gir jaata hai’
It has been a little more than three weeks that India’s national women’s cricket team lifted the World Cup. The brilliant team led by Harmanpreet Kaur notched its first ever world cup title after beating the mighty Australian team in the semi finals and South Africa in the finals, as the entire country roared in joy. Talking about their remarkable wins against Australia, the cricketer duo stressed that courage is all that matters and there is no substitute for hard work.(Instagram/@primevideoin) Two of the team’s stellar players, Jemimah Rodrigues and Shafali Verma recently appeared in ‘Two Much’, a talk show hosted by Bollywood actors Kajol and Twinkle Khanna. Hailing from Mumbai, Jemimah played both, cricket and hockey, when she was a kid. In the episode, she recalled jam-packing the two sports into her schedule along with school, until she was forced to choose one. The state level hockey player chose cricket. Shafali was born in Haryana’s Rohtak. She shared tales of how she disguised herself as a boy, only to make her way to the …
