Sneha aims to become 1st cricketer to make India comeback after pregnancy
The Morning Standard|July 23, 2022
IN the first week of June 2021, Sneha Deepthi shared a video on her Instagram: clips of her playing for Railways and smacking around the Odisha bowlers in the 2019 Inter-state U-23 T20 tournament. The caption read, 'Can't wait to be back on the field..!! I miss the real ME.'
GOMESH S
Sneha aims to become 1st cricketer to make India comeback after pregnancy

It had been over two years since Sneha, once India's youngest T20I debutante, had last played a competitive game. In the intervening period, she got married and also gave birth to her daughter, Kriva Philip.  Her desire to return to the field had grown stronger than ever.

A year since that nostalgic post that fuelled her cricketing fire, Sneha has made a successful return to the domestic circuit, captaining Andhra in List-A and T20 cricket, and then leading Vizianagaram Royals to the title in the inaugural Andhra Premier League earlier this month. While that day in June 2021 appears significant to the outside world, Sneha’s ‘return to play’ programme was put in place almost as soon as she and her husband Philip Maddirala found out about their pregnancy.

This story is from the July 23, 2022 edition of The Morning Standard.

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