Overview

• With the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup 2025 starting September 30, the India squad members reflected in new interviews on preparing to compete on home soil.
• Arundhati Reddy cited India’s 2007 T20 title and the 2011 home ODI World Cup as inspirations for her dream to play for India and lift a World Cup.
• Reddy said coach Ganesh steered her from aspiring wicketkeeper to fast bowler, leading to Hyderabad under-19 and senior selection before a comeback to the national side.
• Reddy noted that two World Cup fixtures are scheduled in Visakhapatnam and emphasized how local backing there could lift the team.
• Spinner Shree Charani, from Andhra Pradesh, described switching from medium pace to spin for greater impact, credited early support from her mother, and said COVID-19 cost her two key development years.