By Moneycontrol Sports Desk | May 11, 2025
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Mithali Raj’s cricketing journey was made possible by her parents’ unwavering support. When she was selected among the World Cup probables, her mother gave up her managerial position at an optical products chain to manage the home.
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Speaking about her mother in The Cricket Monthly, Mithali shared, “She has sacrificed a lot of her time. She has worked very hard to see to it that I had food on time. I’m that kind of a child who needs her mother around even today, so she took a back seat and decided to become a housewife.”
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Virat Kohli’s fierce passion for cricket traces back to a dream his late father, Prem Kohli, once nurtured. Despite financial hardships, his parents enrolled him in a cricket academy when he was just eight.
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Kohli often noticed how his parents, Prem and Saroj, gave up comforts for their children. Prem’s death in 2006 deeply affected Virat, but Saroj’s strength held the family together.
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Sachin Tendulkar may be the “God of cricket” to millions, but to his mother Rajni, he’s the mischievous boy from Bandra who played cricket all day.
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In an interview with Meenatai Naik, she recalled, “I had never been to any match. I used to be very tense. We used to watch it on television. This time Sachin said, ‘Aai, you must come this time.
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MS Dhoni, known for his calm leadership and love for daughter Ziva, often credits his emotional strength to his mother. In a 2016 ODI series against New Zealand, he had his teammates wear jerseys bearing their mothers’ names instead of their own.
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Dhoni, wearing his mother’s name Devaki, told NDTV, “It’s an initiative to appreciate the contribution of the mothers… We need to appreciate our mothers’ role the same way.”
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Harmanpreet Kaur rose to fame after her unbeaten 171 in the 2017 Women’s World Cup semi-final. But her path wasn’t easy. Growing up in Moga, Punjab, she faced financial constraints and a lack of girls playing cricket. Yet her parents, Harmandar Singh and Satinder Kaur, never let those obstacles stop her.
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“When she was born, we had brought a suit with cricket words on it… Initially, it was tough for us as the bats were costly and we could not afford them. But later, she would play for Punjab at a young age and also made her debut for India while in high school,” they told The Indian Express.