Meg Lanning exits centre stage, but her greatness lives on

Don’t bowl short to her: Lanning has played some punishing strokes while making thousands of runs. No one in women’s cricket cuts or pulls the way she does. | Photo credit: Getty Images

Franchise player: The inaugural edition of the WPL saw Delhi Capitals benefit from Lanning’s leadership qualities. She led the franchise to the final against Harmanpreet Kaur’s Mumbai Indians and was the leading scorer of the tournament. | Photo credit: Getty Images

Jhulan Goswami remembers pausing to take a closer look at this new top-order Australian batter more than a decade ago. “The girl had huge potential, I thought,” the former India seamer tells The Hindu on phone. “I found out her name was Meg Lanning.”