Lady dada: Cricket News & Match Updates

What Smriti Mandhana:  The first thing Biju George noticed about a teenaged Smriti Mandhana at the BCCI's first-ever Under-19 girls' camp, held in Guntur in 2013/14, was the cover drive. Tall and bespectacled, Smriti leaned into the ball so sweetly while playing the cover drive that George nicknamed her 'Lady Dada'.

The second thing he noticed was her gutsy nature when she came to him to solve an issue. "She came up to me and said, 'Listen, I find it difficult. I am like a compulsory hooker. So people get me out with that and I want to work on that,'" George said to IANS.   Read More...