India women’s team batter Jemimah Rodrigues was emotional on receiving her first-ever Test jersey. The youngster after wearing the India Women’s Test jersey, a dream of any cricketer growing up, said that she is more energised than ever to play for India. She further added that she wanted to represent the country in whites so that she can leave a legacy for the coming generation.
“So today Ramesh [Ramesh Powar] sir called us for a team meeting and showed us the history we have of women's cricket in India - From where it first started to where it has reached today,” Jemimah wrote on her Instagram post.
“The one's who were before us that made it possible for us to be a part of what we are today. The one's who did it without the recognition they deserved, the one's who brought women's cricket in India,” she continued shedding light on as well as thanking India’s women cricketers who toiled hard to take the sport where it stands today.
The 20-year-old who debuted for India in 2018 was pumped on receiving her jersey from the hands of two of women cricket’s stalwarts in the world Jhulan Goswami and India Test skipper Mithali Raj. “Then the two legends of Indian women's cricket Mithu di and Jhulu di came up and shared with the entire team what cricket has meant to them and what it's like being a part of this Legacy,” wrote Jemimah.
Ending her post, the Mumbai born went on to establish the motto of the Indian Women’s team going ahead. “The meeting ended off with this beautiful quote. ‘Our greatest responsibility is to honour those who have been before us and those who will come after, to 'leave the JERSEY in a better place.',” she wrote.
The Indian team would play their first-ever Test in nearly eight years time when they take on England Women in the one-off Tests at Bristol, which is also their first game of the English tour. Talking about, Jemimha, who has so far scored 1368 runs in 40 T20Is and 19 ODIs combined, said, This series and the series here forth, we are playing for a far bigger cause than what we realise, we are playing for every single girl who desires to play this sport.”