: The 123 of a special cricketer: Smriti Mandhana’s memorable World Cup day against West Indies #IndiaNEWS Effortless. It’s an adjective so often used in sports discourse. If there’s a top five

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The 123 of a special cricketer: Smriti Mandhana’s memorable World Cup day against West Indies #IndiaNEWS
Effortless. It’s an adjective so often used in sports discourse. If there’s a top five list of adjectives used to celebrate athletes, effortless might feature in it. Effortlessly so. It is, in fact, the word that was used in Sachin Tendulkar’s tweet to describe the superlative batting effort of Smriti Mandhana and Harmanpreet Kaur at the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup against West Indies on Saturday. A 184-run partnership – a tournament record for India – between two superstar players paved the way for the team’s batting to bounce back from a tough evening at the very venue not too long back. But one must wonder: what would any athlete make of their performance being called effortless? Most acts of sporting brilliance require hours and hours of effort behind the scenes, away from the spotlight and not to mention the effort during the performance. Because, make no mistake, Mandhana’s innings of 123 (119 balls, 13 fours, 2 sixes, strike rate 103.36) wouldn’t necessarily come under the effortless category, even in the conventional sense it’s used in sport. There were certainly plenty of moments where she made shot-making look easy but it wasn’t the most fluent for the initial part. It was, in her...Read more

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