Indian Women batter Jemimah Rodrigues made an excellent comeback to the worldwide cricket as she starred with the bat within the first T20I towards Sri Lanka at Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium on Thursday.
Notably, Rodrigues was benched throughout the first ODI in England final 12 months and then in all the T20I collection. She did nicely in The Women’s Hundred in addition to the Women’s Big Bash League, nonetheless, the Mumbaikar was not picked for the Women’s World Cup held in New Zealand earlier this 12 months.
After all of the ups and downs, Rodrigues, in her comeback sport, scored an important unbeaten knock of 36 runs to assist India put up a aggressive 138/6 in 20 overs which they efficiently defended after proscribing the hosts at 104/5.
Rodrigues was named ‘Player of the Match’ for her essential knock, and after the sport, the right-handed batter revealed how conversations with males’s workforce captain Rohit Sharma and wicketkeeper-batter Rishabh Pant helped her regain confidence.
“My height is the same, but the mental thing has changed a lot. In the last few years, from the last Sri Lanka tour, the journey hasn’t been very smooth, and there have been a lot of ups and downs,” mentioned Rodrigues within the post-match presser.
“I also had the opportunity in the last few months to talk with cricketers like Rohit Sharma and Rishabh Pant and others. They actually told that these moments define you and prepare you for something greater that’s coming. If you look at it [in a] negative way, it is not going to help. But these are the moments that define you as a cricketer. I was blessed to speak to them and some of our teammates,” she added.