India women’s team batter and current U19 skipper Shafali Verma has said that she looks up to English batting all-rounder Liam Livingstone and Indian legend Sachin Tendulkar as her role models.
The 18-year-old said that she looks upon Livingstone as her current role model as she like his aggressive way of batting.
“I think nowadays, I like Livingstone’s batting because he’s hitting very well, and of course growing up, playing cricket, I used to watch Sachin Tendulkar sir. So of course, Sachin sir is also my role model and I love to see him, how he is playing the game and he’s very calm. And I was also thinking to learn something like that from him,” said Shafali on Star Sports show ‘Follow the Blues’.
“Of course it’s very good, it’s my first and last, because it’s my last year of the U-19, but of course very exciting. We have a good team, we are really enjoying with the girls and I hope we will play good cricket and of course we will be here for the world cup and we will try to achieve that. I would say we are averaging well in batting, bowling and fielding, it’s just the mind-set of how they are taking them, but as a captain, I hope we win the world cup,” she signed off.
