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T20 World Cup: This time last year, Titas Sadhu was preparing for the inaugural U19 Women’s T20 World Cup in South Africa, a tournament which India eventually won. Titas was the star of the final with her incredible spell of 2/6 and was roped in by Delhi Capitals for the inaugural WPL, as well as made her India T20I debut in a gold-medal winning campaign at the Asian Games.

Cut to now, and Titas is amongst the headlines again, after picking a terrific career-best figures of 4-17 in just her fifth T20I match during India’s nine-wicket win over Australia in the T20I series opener at the DY Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai on Friday night.

"I got to know that I will be playing the game at around 11am-ish. I was really excited because I had been sitting out for some while now. I always get excited while playing a match, so I'm always waiting for my turn to bowl and I was really excited as well today. So when I got the chance to bowl (in the fourth over), I just wanted to hit my lengths and make the ball move a little and I was lucky, I got those wickets," said Titas in the post-match press conference.   Read More...