Financial Express
India’s women’s cricket team finally ended their long wait for World Cup glory with a 52-run victory over South Africa on Sunday — and in the aftermath, a long-forgotten comment by former BCCI president N. Srinivasan has resurfaced. Srinivasan had reportedly told former captain Diana Edulji that he would “never let women’s cricket grow in India.”
Recalling the encounter, Diana said, “When Mr. Srinivasan became president, I went to congratulate him at the Wankhede Stadium. He said, ‘If I had my way, I wouldn’t let women’s cricket happen.’ He hates women’s cricket.”
“I’ve always been a BCCI basher, right from the day women’s cricket came under the BCCI fold in 2006. BCCI is a very male-chauvinist organisation. They never wanted women to dictate terms or get into this space. I was very voca
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