Happy Birthday to Australian Captain Lisa Sthalekar

Lisa Sthalekar, B’day Spl: There is a saying that no one gets ahead of time and more than luck and it is also true that what is written in destiny, it lives by. Both these things are fully applicable to the life of Indian-origin former Australian captain and veteran female cricketer Lisa Sthalekar. Inducted into the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) Hall of Fame, Lisa is celebrating her 43rd birthday today. In such a situation, we are telling you today on his birthday, from his birth to becoming the world’s successful cricketer, such a story, which has been very exciting and full of ups and downs.

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Parents were left in the orphanage

Lisa Sthalekar is Indian in origin, but no one knows who her real parents are, because it was only after Lisa was born that her parents left her in the ‘Shreevatsa Orphanage’ located in Pune city of Maharashtra. . Yes, you read it right, Lisa was born on 13 August 1979 in an unknown corner of the city, but her parents left her in an orphanage and she was named ‘Laila’. But destiny had something else in mind and Laila’s luck was about to change too.

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American couple adopted

In those days an American couple named Dr. Haren and Sue came to visit India. There was already a girl in his family, his motive for coming to India was to adopt a boy. They came to this ashram in search of a handsome boy. Although they did not find the boy here, Sue caught sight of Laila and fell in love with the girl after seeing her bright brown eyes and innocent face. After taking legal action, the girl was adopted and then a few weeks later all went to America. There ‘Soo’ changed the name of ‘Laila’ to ‘Liz’. After a few years, this entire family settled permanently in Sydney.

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Lisa Sthalekar was taught cricket lessons by father

Father Haren taught daughter Lisa Sthalekar to play cricket, after which it started from the park of the house and went on to play with the boys of the street. Lisa’s passion for cricket was immense, but she also completed her studies together. Lisa Sthalekar made her ODI debut for Australia in 2001 at the age of 22. He then made his Test debut in 2003 and then T20I in 2005.

Became the first woman cricketer to take 1000 runs and 100 wickets

Lisa Sthalekar played as an all-rounder and did wonders with the bat as well as the ball. She became the first woman cricketer to take 1000 runs and 100 wickets. She was the world’s number one all-rounder when the ICC ranking system was introduced.

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12 year cricket career

Lisa played 187 international matches in her 12-year cricket career. And during this time scored 3913 runs in all three formats. Along with this, he also took 229 wickets in his name. If we understand the career of Lisa Sthalekar in statistics. Then she scored 416 runs in eight Test matches with the help of one century and two half-centuries. He scored 2728 runs in 125 ODIs with the help of two centuries and 16 half-centuries. Whereas in 54 T20 matches, he scored 769 runs with the help of a half-century.

Australia made world champion

The Australian captain participated in four World Cups of ODI and T20. His team won the Cricket World Cup in 2013 and then the next day this player said goodbye to international cricket.