By BIPIN DANI
It was rare for a woman cricketer to have her photoshoot on a cricket pitch.
The 24-year-old top-order batswoman Sanjida Islam, who married to another First-Class cricketer Mim Mosaddeak had her photoshoot on a cricket pitch.
"Oh, it just happened all of a sudden and not pre-planned. I had gone to the Rangpur Stadium for a photoshoot and there saw some boys playing cricket. Being a cricketer, I could not resist the temptation of playing a few balls and my photographer immediately clicked the photos", speaking exclusively over telephone from Bangladesh, she said.
Sanjida's photos, which became viral on social media playing a cover drive and a pull shot and gave all cricket-lovers couple goals. Coming out with an out of the box idea, the woman cricketer gave the International Cricket Council (ICC) the opportunity to tweet the pictures: "Dress, jewellery, cricketer bat. Wedding photoshoots for cricketers be like,".
"The orange color (of my saree) is very auspicious in our culture and therefore I wore it on the day of shooting".
"I married Mim on 17th October. It is a love marriage. We have known each other since the last six years. We invited a few cricketers for the marriage and two national players could make it".
The couple is unlikely to go for a honeymoon. "Because of the COVID-19, we are not moving out of our country but hoping the effects of Coronavirus diminish and then will plan for overseas honeymoon", she added.
Sanjida has so far played 16 ODIs and 54 T-20Is.
