
Say cheese: In the midst of frenzied welcome, Kamalini’s household takes time for a selfie.
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G. Kamalini arrived in Chennai on Tuesday, bodily drained after an in a single day journey from Malaysia by way of Bengaluru however mentally rearing to go as soon as once more.
Chatting with The Hindu, the teenager seemed again on India’s profitable ICC U-19 girls’s T20 World Cup marketing campaign and stated the squad barely felt any stress to carry out.
“The entire staff and the employees have been very shut. Generally, we might return from coaching classes drenched in sweat with no power left to even stand. It didn’t matter. We danced for 2 hours each single day earlier than dinner. By the tip of it, even the non-dancers enthusiastically took half,” the 16-year-old stated.
There’s little time for her to savour her World Cup success. Her suitcases from Malaysia are prone to keep packed as she heads to hitch the Mumbai Indians squad for the 2025 version of the Ladies’s Premier League.
Workforce first
“My solely purpose [with MI] is to profit from each alternative they offer me. I wish to give my greatest when known as upon, past that I would not have any large objectives.
“I wish to play for the staff, I don’t wish to play for my private objectives. By the tip, I wish to carry out in such a method that the staff ought to say ‘we’re glad we picked her, she is taking part in beautifully.’ Past that, I’ve no objectives of being the highest run-getter or the highest wicketkeeper,” she stated.
Printed – February 04, 2025 07:39 pm IST