WOMEN AT THE WICKET

Asia’s women’s cricket teams from outside the Indian subcontinent have been rapidly rising up through the ranks, creating opportunities, breaking barriers and changing the game as they go

By Rachel Duffell

At eight years old, Winifred Duraisingam started playing cricket on the streets with her brother and his friends—though they wouldn’t always let her play with them. “Back then, when I started, there were no women playing cricket,” says Duraisingam, who desperately wanted to bat, but the boys said she couldn’t because she was a girl. Her uncle stepped in and put a rule in place that whoever took a wicket could go into bat. And then he taught her how to bowl; soon, she was consistently bowling everyone out. “In the end, I said it’s okay, you all can bat, I will just bowl,” recalls Duraisingam. “And then they were all so scared of me, because [I was] a girl taking a boy’s wicket. That’s how my cricket started—out on…

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Tatler Hong Kong (Digital) - 1 Issue, July 2024

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