New Delhi: Kanika Ahuja is the brand new star within the inaugural WPL as she led Royal Challengers Bangalore to their first victory after 5 consecutive losses. Her inning of 46 off 30 balls helped RCB chase 136 towards UP Warriorz and made her the middle of attraction because the 20-year-old did her first press convention in life. However, her journey has not been all hunky dory.
Kanika’s mom again house is battling breast and bone cancers and after her daughter’s heroics, she needed to go for her chemotherapy the subsequent morning. Her mom needs to get effectively quickly to look at her daughter play in a stadium. Kanika’s father instructed Indian Specific that the all-rounder is conscious of her mom’s state of affairs, however they don’t speak about it. They slightly focus on Kanika assembly the likes of Ellyse Perry and Smriti Mandhana.
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After the sport, Kanika stated that there was a time when her mom used to push her to play and now she is enjoying as a result of she watches her. She added that her household was not conscious of ladies’s cricket so her father requested her to concentrate on her research whereas her mom pushed her to play.
Her grandfather, who used to accompany her to coaching classes stated that she dealt with the information of her mom’s most cancers amazingly and known as her God’s present. Her childhood coach instructed the media outlet that she didn’t miss a single coaching session and her ardour for the sport is second to none.
Within the press convention, she talked about that she loved listening to ‘Kanika, Kanika’ within the stadium. She added that Virat Kohli’s pre-match motivation helped her as he requested the gamers to consider stress as pleasure.
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Watch her press convention right here.
The teenager really stood by her senior’s phrases and carried out underneath stress. She together with Richa Ghosh’s 31*(32) helped RCB to remain within the competitors. Sophie Devine selecting two early wickets, adopted by Sobhana Asha and Ellyse Perry taking two and three wickets respectively restricted UPW to 135.