Roshanara Parveen to play T20 Women’s World Cup

Oriya Women Cricketers

It is every cricketer’s dream to play for the country some day. When Roshanara Parveen, one of the oriya women cricketer from Balangir selected for T20 Women’s World Cup to be played in Sri Lanka, she was surprised but extremely happy.

A right arm off-spinner, Roshanara is the second woman cricketer from the state after Madhuri Mehta — also from Balangir — to represent India. The local girl will be seen in action in the Twenty20 World Cup that starts from September 26.

Roshanara credited her success to her coach Arun Nayak and the Odisha Cricket Association (OCA) authorities. “I will work on bringing some variation into my bowling. I won’t stick to just orthodox spin. Sri Lankan grounds are known to be spinner-friendly and I will try to use this to my advantage,” said the vivacious girl, who idolises Kiwi spinner and cricket poster boy Daniel Vettori.