Jemimah Rodrigues 🏏 127* for India – and a message to every South Asian girl who dreams bigger. Dropped. Doubt. Anxiety. Comeback. Then the innings of the tournament when it mattered most. That’s resilience. That’s representation. That’s possibility. India into the World Cup final. Australia beaten. But the real win is what this means for the next generation. South Asian girls play cricket everywhere, yet barely exist in England’s pathways. The talent is there. The interest is there. The visibility isn’t. That’s the gap. The Asian Cricket Awards ran for 5 years – fully backed by the ECB – and we’ve been ready to revive it, but the support hasn’t followed. The game keeps talking diversity, but actions still lag behind. A girl in Birmingham, Bradford, Leicester or London watched jemimahrodrigues yesterday and thought: why not me? One innings won a match. It can start a movement – if cricket is brave enough to back the girls who already love this sport. The talent exists. The appe...