Laila in Puna orphanage in 1979 and Lisa after adopted by her foreign parents, is an highly inspiring world cricketer living in Sydney Australia !
An highly inspiring story about a poorest of the poor girl ( infant) left in the swing of an orphanage at Pune by her parents years ago and thereafter her being legally adopted by foreign parents finally bringing laurels for the country she is living in ( Australia) as a first number international woman cricketer, a happening beyond truth, is going viral in social media, these days.
This real story under the title : A journey from an orphanage to the captain of a team”, in hindi being repeatedly shared reveals, how the unlucky, then hapless Pune parents who left her in the orphanage years ago would be feeling extremely sorry and repenting now, on knowing about their daughter achieving so much and outstanding in a foreign country, not able to meet her to express their affection as disclosing their identity may invite tremendous negative reactions.
According to this real story there is an orphanage in Pune known as ” Srivastava Orphanage”. On 13 th August, 1979 a girl infant took birth in a remote corner of the city PUNE. The hapless poor parents ( reasons not known) left the girl child, their most loving creature in a swing of the “Srivastav orphanage”. On finding the child next morning the management of the orphanage gave her the name LAILA. During those days an American couple with the name Harren and Su had visited India. Already parents of a girl, this couple was interested to adopt a girl child. They went to this Pune Ashram for want of a handsome boy. While looking for a boy the couple saw Laila with bright eyes and innocent face. This enticed the couple who changed their opinion and adopted Laila legally, changing her name to Lisa Carprini Sthalekar . They left for USA with Laila now LISA and after some years permanently settled in Sydney, Australia. The caring parents, especially her fostered father trained her adopted daughter LISA in cricket, starting from colony parks to stadium. LISA showed immense interest in cricket and studied as well completing her higher education. She was finally perfect and trained cricketer having later on bringing laurels for their parents and the country in cricket in various national and international tournaments. According to the ongoing story – in 1997 LISA played the first cricket match in South Wales in 2001, she played the first one day international in 2001, in 2003 played the first cricket test, in 2005 played the first T20 match. So far she had played 8 test matches, and scored 416 runs, n took 23 wickets, played 125, one day matches, scored, 2728 runs n claimed 146 wickets. Not only this but in 54 T 20 matches she scored 769 runs and claimed 60 wickets. She has been rated as a first all rounder woman cricketer scoring 1000 runs and claiming 100 wickets. She is also credited for playing in four world cups of T20 Women ODI cricket. In 2013 her team won the world Cup bringing laurels for the nation. The International Cricket Council has included Lisa Carprini Sthalekar in their Hall of fame.
This is called destiny which is framed when a child comes in this world, nobody knowing what is in store in future. Did her parents who threw her in an orphanage’s swing in Pune ever knew that one day her daughter will shine like a super star in international cricket. Sounds unbelievable indeed.
Kindly recall that Lisa Carprini Sthalekar is primarily an Australian cricket commentator and ex cricket captain of Australia’s international women’s cricket team. In domestic cricket she represented New South Wales. She was a right-handed all rounder who was an outstanding left spinner, and was rated as the leading all rounder in the world when rankings were introduced. She was the first woman to score 1,000 runs and take 100 wickets in ODIs. She announced her retirement from international cricket a day after the Australian team won the 2013 Women’s Cricket World Cup tournament.
