Mithali Raj, former captain of India ladies's ODI and Check groups, mentioned on Tuesday that faculties want to advertise workforce sports activities in the event that they wish to encourage extra women to take up cricket as a pastime.
"Over a time period, the faculties most likely stopped encouraging women or perhaps they felt having a workforce sport could be very tough in the case of women and that's the reason I've been listening to the panelists speaking about tennis or badminton or people sports activities," Raj mentioned throughout a panel dialogue titled Encouraging Women To Play in Sports activities & Communities at Sportstar's South Sports activities Conclave in Chennai.
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"They really feel it's higher to put money into particular person sport...and that's the reason a variety of women transfer to particular person sports activities. However to have a college workforce, you have to a particular variety of gamers. So it comes down to colleges to encourage to type the workforce and encourage the ladies in order that if any lady represents India within the U19 World Cup, the varsity can have the honour of getting a world participant.
"That mentioned, in the previous few years, we have now seen improve within the ratio of women taking on the game. Not solely within the faculty degree, however a variety of them come up (taking it up as a occupation). It is no extra a pastime. And with the central contracts and the Girls's IPL scheduled subsequent yr, clearly a variety of issues are taking place at a much bigger degree in ladies's cricket."
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Anju Bobby George, the one Indian to have received a medal within the World Championships with an extended bounce bronze within the 2003 version, spoke concerning the hurdles she needed to overcome as a younger feminine athlete. "When my mom determined to ship me to athletics, a few of my kinfolk have been stating issues like I will get darkish, it's going to have an effect on my household life and so forth. However slowly, when my photograph began approaching paper, additionally they began accepting," she mentioned.
