{"id":9608,"date":"2021-04-05T01:19:31","date_gmt":"2021-04-05T01:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/?p=9608"},"modified":"2021-04-05T01:19:31","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T01:19:31","slug":"the-man-who-batted-for-womens-cricket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/?p=9608","title":{"rendered":"**  The man who batted for women\u2019s cricket"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Mahendra Kumar Sharma conceptualised a tournament five decades ago<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Kanyaon ki cricket hogi, zaroor aayiye&nbsp;<\/em>(There will be a cricket match by girls, do come).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thus announced Mahendra Kumar Sharma on a microphone, as he moved around the streets of Lucknow in an autorickshaw one Saturday afternoon five decades ago. Those were the earliest days for women\u2019s cricket in India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mahendra Kumar Sharma conceptualised a tournament five decades ago Kanyaon ki cricket hogi, zaroor aayiye&nbsp;(There will be a cricket match by girls, do come). Thus announced Mahendra Kumar Sharma on a microphone, as he moved around the streets of Lucknow in an autorickshaw one Saturday afternoon five decades ago. Those were the earliest days for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/?p=9608\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">**  The man who batted for women\u2019s cricket<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9609,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9608\/revisions\/9609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}