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Mumbai, Dec 2 (PTI) In what will be a rare sight, two women scorers will be assisting the reporters in the Press Box during the second Test between India and New Zealand.
The final Test begins on Friday.
The two female scorers who will be doing the scoring duties at Wankhede are Kshama Sane and Sushma Sawant."Perhaps for the first time it is happening that two women scorers are there for a Test match,” a senior Mumbai Cricket Association scorer told PTI.Kshama, 45, hails from suburban Nahur and passed the BCCI Women’s special batch scoring exam in 2010 and since then she is scoring in IPL and Ranji Trophy games.She has scored for plenty senior and junior games for the last eleven years and is one of the leading scorers in the Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA).Kshama has played for the U-15 level for Mumbai in the 1990s and played for two tournaments and then left cricket.
In 1996, there was an umpire’s course and she passed that but did not take it up professionally.In 2006, she passed the MCA scorer exam.
She had earlier worked in three companies but left her job in 2018 to pursue a full-fledged career scoring.“On my personal front, I"m the only child of my parents.
My mother was the one who was keen on getting me into cricket from a young age of 11 years.