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India’s GS Lakshmi to be first woman match referee in ICC event

India’s GS Lakshmi to be first woman match referee in ICC event

Lakshmi has been a resident of Hyderabad for almost three decades now. But her tryst with cricket goes back to her college days in Jamshedpur where her father was an employee with Tata. Lakshmi played for the Indian Railways team for a long time before breaking into the Indian women’s cricket team in 1999.

“Until the 2017 World Cup, there was hardly any recognition for women’s cricket in India. Our girls have been doing well internationally but it’s the 2017 World Cup performance that catapulted the team to fame. Earlier, people only knew either Mithali (Raj) or Jhulan Goswami. But now, a lot of women are making it to the fore with the media also actively following women’s cricket. A full-fledged IPL is now being launched for women. I think things are going the right way but it will take a little more time for people to consider women’s cricket at par with men’s,” she told.

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