Former India ladies’s cricket crew captain Diana Edulji was inducted into the ICC Corridor of Fame on Monday. With this, she grew to become the primary Indian lady cricketer to obtain this honour. Edulji has been a trailblazer in ladies’s cricket and performed an enormous position throughout her taking part in days in addition to an administrator after retiring. In her 17-year lengthy profession, Edulji has performed 20 Check matches and scored 1624 runs with 63 wickets. In ODIs, she has scored 775 runs and scalped 46 wickets in 34 matches.
To acknowledge her achievement, former pacer Jhulan Goswani paid wealthy tributes to Edulji. In an open letter following her inclusion into ICC Corridor of Fame, Jhulan hailed the previous India captain’s contribution in lifting the stature of ladies’s cricket within the nation.
“It’s an absolute honour for you, but additionally a really proud second for ladies’s cricket in our nation and a proud second for India as a complete, that you’re being inducted into the ICC Corridor of Fame. It’s so well-deserved, you may have been a pioneer for ladies’s cricket in our nation,” Goswami wrote.
“Your contributions through the years have been immense. It isn’t an excessive amount of to say that the sport wouldn’t be the place it’s in India with out all of your efforts.” The lanky former India pacer additionally regretted not taking part in alongside aspect Edulji throughout her illustrious profession.
“From a private perspective, one of many largest regrets of my profession was that I by no means received to play towards you. Like many younger cricketers in India, I had grown up studying about you within the document books. Ladies’s cricket in India began in Mumbai in 1971 and also you have been there from the beginning,” Jhulan wrote.
“We might examine your exploits, the way you led the crew and have been so essential to that aspect. As a participant, your performances for the Indian cricket crew within the Seventies and Eighties have been legendary.
“You’re a born chief who has all the time taken the duty in your shoulders and led from the entrance. Successful and dropping is part of life, however you’re taking the initiative and all the time attempt to contribute to society, that’s the largest achievement of all.
“Later, while you have been current on the BCCI board, you made additional big contributions. You had performed on the highest stage and stayed concerned in ladies’s cricket so that you understood precisely what we would have liked. We had a voice to provide our recreation the help it wanted and we knew that we may flip to you for something,” she added.
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