In June 2009, I was in business school. A friend at the Board of Control for Cricket in India, once a colleague in the newsroom, called and asked me to profile each member of the Indian women’s cricket team. The Indian cricket board, still in the early years of governing women’s cricket, wanted to feature these articles on its website before the ICC T20 World Cup in England. The pieces were never published. (I never got paid either.)

Today, there are more than a handful journalists who cover women’s cricket with the same rigour and dedication the men’s game has witnessed. If you log on to the BCCI’s app, you’ll see smartly packaged video interviews of the players, and on Instagram you’ll find the “indiancricketteam” handle is shared between men and women.

If you drive around in Mumbai th

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