NAVI MUMBAI: It’s a compliment that must have left Deepti Sharma on cloud nine. Soon after the off-spinning allrounder returned a brilliant match haul of 9/39 in 13.3 overs (5-7 & 4-32) to go with her 67 in the first innings, new head coach Amol Muzumdar said he calls her the “Ben Stokes of the team”.
Deepti became only the second Indian after Shubhangi Kulkarni to pick up five wickets and score a fifty in a Test. “You are talking about ‘Stokesy’. I jokingly call her the Ben Stokes of the team,” Muzumdar told WV Raman, himself a former coach of the team, on the official broadcast on Saturday.
