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How this 16-year-old girl 'conspired' with her father to play cricket in India

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Shafali Verma is a 16-year-old prodigy who recently broke Sachin Tendulkar’s record as the youngest Indian ever to score an international half-century. She says she conspired with her father to look like a boy, so she could play cricket as a child in rural India.
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