Rohtak, India, Jan 30 (AFP/APP): Shafali Verma once disguised herself as her brother to play cricket, and went on to win “man of the match and series”. Now the teen sensation wants to help India win the women’s Twenty20 World Cup. Verma, who turned 16 on Tuesday, made her India debut last year in a Twenty20 against South Africa but turning up in her elder brother Sahil’s jersey is her most cherished memory. “I told my father that I will go and play disguised as my brother (who was sick) and even had his name on my back,” Verma told AFP. “I played and became man of the match and series”. “Organisers complained to my dad that you made your daughter play instead of your son and he replied that ‘you were lucky, if my daughter can hit so hard, imagine what my boy would have done’.” Verma, an attacking opener, is now in Australia for a Twenty20 tri-series warm-up for next month’s World Cup — a trophy that has eluded India’s women. But the prodigy’s ambitions were almost ended by the lack of opportunities for aspiring female players where she grew up. When she was nine, she decided to … Continue reading Disguised boy to girl wonder: India’s Verma eyes World Cup glory