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Showered with emotion and gifts, wicketkeeper-batter Richa Ghosh, a cardinal subordinate of the Indian women’s World Cup winning side, experienced a abrupt elevation successful her presumption arsenic a legendary sportsperson astatine a sparkling relation organised connected the Eden Gardens turf present connected Saturday.
Richa was handed a gold-plated bat and shot and a cheque of ₹34 lakh, representing each tally she scored astatine the World Cup final, by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee connected behalf of the Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB).
On behalf of the West Bengal Government, Mamata gave Richa the prestigious Banga Bhushan grant and a golden concatenation and recruited her arsenic a Deputy Superintendent of Police successful the beingness of the 22-year-old’s parents.
“I’m blessed for the women’s team’s success. Let Richa play the mode she wants to,” said Mamata.
Former India skipper and CAB president Sourav Ganguly enactment Richa’s publication into position and wanted to spot her arsenic a aboriginal ‘India captain.’
“Richa’s relation astatine No. 6 is difficult. She has to people rapidly successful a lesser fig of deliveries. Her onslaught complaint is the quality betwixt India scoring 265 and 325,” said Ganguly.
Former India women’s squad skipper Jhulan Goswami, who spotted Richa and fast-tracked her advancement to the elite team, said, “We should capitalise connected this infinitesimal to nutrient galore much Richas.”
A time aft returning location to a hero’s invited astatine Siliguri, Richa was thrilled astatine the reception.
On her big-hitting skills nether pressure, Richa said, “When I bat astatine the nets, I acceptable targets and effort to execute those to grip pressure. I practise however to deed sixes. Choosing the close transportation is important.”
One of the champion moments came aft the lawsuit erstwhile astir 50 promising pistillate cricketers, wearing Richa’s No. 13 jersey and shouting ‘Richa, Richa,’ surrounded the caller icon connected the signifier and posed for a photograph with her.
