{"id":188603,"date":"2025-10-09T17:57:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T17:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/188603\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T17:57:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T17:57:07","slug":"stumped-how-did-sachin-tendulkars-intervention-help-india-captain-harmanpreet-kaur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/188603\/","title":{"rendered":"Stumped &#8211; How did Sachin Tendulkar&#8217;s intervention help India captain Harmanpreet Kaur?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sw-text-body-copy sw-pt-4 sw-text-secondary\">Available for over a year<\/p>\n<p class=\"sw-text-body-copy sw-whitespace-pre-line sw-pt-4 sw-text-secondary\">With the Women&#8217;s World Cup underway, Alison Mitchell, Jim Maxwell and Prakash Wakankar take stock of the opening week of the tournament.  <\/p>\n<p>We speak to former India captain and ICC hall of famer, Diana Edulji to find how the Mumbai Cricket Association&#8217;s talent hunt is helping to grow the women&#8217;s game in the city. She tells us how a phone call to legend Sachin Tendulkar helped current India captain Harmanpreet Kaur secure a job in the railways.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, we head to a skills camp for girls to see how the Right Pitch Foundation are helping young girls reach their full potential in the game.<\/p>\n<p>Photo: Harmanpreet Kaur of India laughs during the ICC Women&#8217;s Cricket World Cup India 2025 match between India and Pakistan at R. Premadasa Stadium on October 05, 2025 in Colombo, Sri Lanka. (Credit: Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/w3ct6zjv\" aria-label=\"Programme Website of How did Sachin Tendulkar&#039;s intervention help India captain Harmanpreet Kaur?\" data-testid=\"programme-website-link\" class=\"sw-group sw-inline-flex sw-items-center sw-pt-4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Programme Website<\/a>Show less<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Available for over a year With the Women&#8217;s World Cup underway, Alison Mitchell, Jim Maxwell and Prakash Wakankar&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182929,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-188603","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}