ENG vs IND: Indian Women's team gears up for Jhulan Goswami's last hurrah
Updated On: 23 September, 2022 01:03 PM IST | Lord`s | PTI
England vs India: Harmanpreet Kaur and her team are aiming for a clean sweep against England in what would be legendary cricketer Jhulan Goswami`s last international match.
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File pic of India’s Harmanpreet Kaur (R) and Jhulan Goswami. Photo/AFP
Jhulan Goswami, a name synonymous with `fast bowling` in women`s cricket, will walk into her cricketing sunset at the Lord`s on Saturday and the Indian team will strive to make it a memorable swansong for her by completing a historic ODI series clean sweep on English soil, here. Playing one game at Lord`s is an ultimate dream for a cricketer. Scoring a hundred or taking a five-for is a different high but bidding adieu to the game following an illustrious career at the `Mecca of Cricket` is only reserved for a few chosen ones. Sunil Gavaskar (although he played his last first-class game there) didn`t get that opportunity. Neither did a Sachin Tendulkar or a Brian Lara or a Glenn McGrath got that opportunity to step down the stairs of the hallowed Long Room on their final playing day.
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Even Goswami`s colleague for nearly 20 years, Mithali Raj, couldn`t retire from a cricket field. But call it destiny or design, Goswami`s last hurrah is happening at Lord`s. There couldn`t have been a more iconic setting as the strapping 5 feet 11 inch lady walks her way through that Long Room where the MCC`s `suits` will stand up and her teammates will give her a `Guard of Honour` when she will enter the ground. A series already won with an unassailable 2-0 lead, Harmanpreet Kaur and her team would leave no stone unturned to make it a fitting farewell for one of the `poster girls` of Indian cricket. Having lost the T20I series, India did extremely well against a depleted England side in the two games where they dominated while chasing as well as while setting the target.
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