WPL 2025: How football helped Mumbai Indians spinner Sanskriti Gupta find her true calling in cricket
The HinduDuring the warm up before any Women’s Premier League match, a new player is chosen to give the team talk inside the Mumbai Indians huddle. With a number of variations in her kitty, she contributed 16 wickets at an economy of just 2.99 to help Madhya Pradesh lift its first Senior Women’s ODI Trophy late last year. Three years ago, Sanskriti took part in trials to be one of 24 girls who would go on to train at the then newly-founded MP State Women’s Cricket Academy. We also taught variations to her because if you bowl just off spin then the batters figure you out soon enough.” From being a Mumbai Indians fan to rubbing shoulders with some of the game’s finest in the dressing room, Sanskriti is a sponge trying to absorb anything she can from her first WPL season.
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