Overview

• Rodrigues says she and Smriti Mandhana approached Virat Kohli for batting advice before inviting him to a hotel café where both teams were staying.
• Anushka Sharma joined the meet-up, which began with about 30 minutes of cricket talk and then broadened to life and other topics.
• The conversation stretched to nearly four hours, and Rodrigues says it ended only when café staff asked the group to leave.
• Kohli told Rodrigues and Mandhana that they “have the power to change women’s cricket,” according to her account.
• The light-hearted anecdote, shared in a Mashable India interview, was widely re-reported as context notes the couple’s low-profile life in London.