Not many employees at Tata Steel’s Velsen-Noord office had realised that their new colleague, who joined as a trainee in August 2025, was a former captain of the Netherlands women’s cricket team. Cricket remains a niche sport in the Netherlands. Heather Siegers’ achievement, hence, went unsurprisingly unnoticed. “My colleagues weren’t aware of my background and any form of cricket, really. Cricket isn’t very big back home and only a few of my colleagues know much about cricket,” Siegers told The Indian Express. That anonymity, though, would soon end. Her colleagues eventually found out about her alternate identity, and that is when the questions began. “They were very surprised. They found it really cool. I get a lot of questions about it all the time. Now that I’m back playing, they’ve put up a TV in the break room, where they watch all the games. So it’s very cool,” she said. In October 2025, Siegers faced a difficult decision. With her dual identity lifestyle proving to be unsustainable, she had to let go of one. It …