Indian women’s team lead pace bowler before the ongoing series against South Africa women, Shikha Pandey shared an emotional video entailing her journey to becoming a professional cricketer. Putting out the video on Twitter, Shikha captioned it as, “09.03.2014: Dreams don’t turn to dust!”
This video also comes at an important juncture because the pacer has been sidelined after the T20 World Cup, even without much fault of her. Indian women’s team vice-captain Harmanpreet Kaur also said that Pandey was not dropped on the basis of her form, but because the Indian set up wanted to try new players.
The video, which replays some parts of Shikah’s life through a flipbook, shows a young Shikha watching a game of cricket in April 19918 and then slowly flips to 09 March 2014 when the Andhra born made her India debut at the age of 24.
Now at 31, the Indian speedster has played two Tests, 52 ODIs and 50 T20Is so far and taken a total of 113 wickets in them.