‘Mother sold her jewellery to buy me cricket kit, want to give something back’

Despite becoming a regular member of the Indian women’s cricket team, pacer Kranti Gaud has not forgotten her roots and the sacrifices that her parents made to support her career and she wants to repay their faith by excelling at the ongoing T20 World Cup here. Gaud, who hails from a small village in Madhya Pradesh, recollected how her mother sold jewellery to buy her cricket kit.

“If your family supports you, then what others say doesn’t matter because those outsiders are not supporting you anyway. I am grateful to my family for standing by me through every step because there were a lot of problems. There was always a shortage of money,” Gaud told JioStar.

Now, Gaud wants to make her family proud by performing well for India.

“My mother sold her jewellery to buy me a proper cricket kit. That was a huge sacrifice. My family was doing so much for me, and that made me feel responsible. I wanted to give something back to them. I wanted to make their sacrifice count.”