The Cricket Keeper

Recently, seeing the career of Alyssa Healy being celebrated reminded me of another wicketkeeper who left a huge impression on me growing up: Sarah Taylor.

#Part3 of Behind the Stats 27.02.2026 In the freezing dawn of January 1978, a handful of young Indian women stepped off a rattling train onto the platform of Eden Gardens in Calcutta. They clutched battered kit bags and geometry textbooks alike. Some were barely out of high school, others held bank clerk jobs, but all were charged with an impossible task: represent India at its first-ever Women’s Cricket World Cup. For Diana Edulji – a 22-year-old clerk with Western Railways – it felt as if...

19.09.2025 #Part 2  of Behind the Stats First, imagine a national game played in near silence. Karachi. The night before a women’s match, police stand outside two sisters’ home. Morning comes and the stadium is ringed with thousands of officers. Spectators aren’t allowed in. The players walk out anyway. They play anyway. When the last ball is bowled, the sisters board a plane and leave the country for their own safety. It almost sounds like fiction. It wasn’t. The spark at Lord’s A few years...