However, her inability to find success at the higher level, which also happened to be her first tryst with failure as a cricketer, raised self doubts. It prompted her to question if cricket is really what she wanted to do. After all hailing from a family that’s deeply involved in academics (her mother was a teacher, her father is an editor of a newspaper and her brother an IIT Bombay graduate working as a Data Scientist), her involvement in sports was an anomaly, even if her family never dissuaded her from sports or pushed her towards academics.
