Kolkata, Jan 29 (PTI) Cricket happened by fluke for the country’s latest pace sensation Titas Sadhu, who dished out match-winning figures of 4-0-6-2 as India shot out England for 68 on way to lifting the inaugural Under-19 Women’s T20 World Cup trophy on Sunday.

Following in the footsteps of her father — a state-level athlete — Titas started her journey into sports as a sprinter, switched to swimming and then table tennis. But one fine day, the multi-talented girl ended up keeping scores for her ancestral cricket club, Rajendra Smriti Sangha, near Hooghly’s Mohsin College in Chinsurah, about 50km north of Kolkata.

It was then and there that she fell in love with cricket. Extremely good with numbers – Titas scored 93 per cent marks in her Madhyamik exams – she continued keeping scores for her team.

One fine morning, when her club side fell short of a net bowler, they called up Titas. Since then, she has never looked back, even dropping out of school to pursue the sport.

The Bengal team’s bowling coach Shib Shankar Paul, who was in-charge of the senior women’s side in 2016-17, recollects the day Titas’s childhood coach Priyankar Mukherjee brought her to him.

“Her childhood coach Priyankar Mukherjee insisted that I look at the promising player. She indeed was (talented),” Paul told

Source: PTI News