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The Times of India
The Times of India
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Amit Kumar | TIMESOFINDIA.COM

The Pooja Vastrakar story: From playing with boys and dealing with a tragedy that threatened to destroy her to helping India beat Pakistan in the Women's World Cup

NEW DELHI: 22-year-old Indian cricketer Pooja Vastrakar has played 2 Tests, 14 ODIs and 24 T20Is for the Indian women's cricket team since her international debut in 2018. On Sunday, though, in what was her 14th ODI in the blue jersey of the Indian team, Vastrakar played a knock which will go down as her best performance with the bat so far and that too at a time when the team desperately needed someone to stand tall and deliver in a high pressure World Cup game.

In the high-octane clash against Pakistan, in what was India's opening match in the ongoing ICC Women's World Cup in New Zealand, Vastrakar was at her best with the bat.

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