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I'm a big one for music.
I do speak a bit of Bengali.
I am High Wycombe born and bred.
I used to play badminton in winter.
England is leading the way in women's cricket.
It's about who holds their nerve under pressure.
We believe that we can win no matter what situation.
T20 is the vehicle to make cricket a truly global game.
I've always been an England fan. I was born and bred here.
I haven't played men's Test cricket, I've played women's Test cricket.
I definitely feel more attached to Kolkata than anywhere else in India.
At a personal level, doing well in the Ashes and winning it was a high.
It would be great to see more Asian women playing cricket at every level.
I think T20 cricket has become the flagship spectacle for women's cricket.
I have had a bowl with the pink ball but it was in a day game at Wormsley.
When I first started playing cricket for England, there was hardly any coverage.
I feel very lucky and grateful that I've been welcomed by the Australian public.
It's not that there has never been a keen following for women's cricket in India.
You never know how you're going to go down as an English commentator in Australia.
I wasn't aware of women's cricket until I was 10. We grew up following the men's game.
I read the Guardian when I can get it, but I have to admit I mostly turn to the sport.
There isn't a traditional background of Asian women playing sport, but that's changing.
Cricket is a sport girls can play and be successful in irrespective of their background.
My brother was playing hockey, tennis, badminton... I basically copied everything he did.
IPL is a T20 franchise tournament combining cricket and Bollywood to offer entertainment.
I went through a phase after we won the World Cup of 'what am I going to do with my life.'
You want to get both sides of the story and it's my role to try and bring that out of people.
It's been great to see broadcasters waking up to the fact that women do offer a different perspective.
Before my parents came to England from Calcutta in the 1970s, they used to go to games at Eden Gardens.
It has been a pleasure to play alongside some truly special cricketers and to see them grow as players.
One of my heroes growing up was Darren Gough, he always made things happen and I wanted to be like him.
I don't have much knowledge about Indian culture, but I try to keep a tab of what's happening down here.
With four women commentators, the IPL have shown they have faith in women commentators to do a good job.
When we won the 2009 World Cup in Australia, we flew economy, shared hotel rooms and had a 10:45 P.M. curfew.
Asian parents generally tend to channel their children, especially their daughters, into studying and not sport.
In T20, I think it's really valuable to have a bowler who can bring the ball back into the right hander at pace.
I have always enjoyed male company, which has probably stemmed from playing in boys/men's teams while growing up.
To people who don't take women's cricket seriously, I'd say: just watch a game first, and then make your judgement.
As a pundit, it's important to tell the viewer something they might not know, be unbiased and not sit on the fence.
Something we do every tour is to choose a song for the team CD that gets played in the dressing room prior to games.
People in the U.K. should support who they want to but I would like them to think that playing for England is an option.
I do love the Ashes and some of my best memories are from Ashes cricket. I just wish we'd played a few more Test matches.
Jess Ennis, Chrissie Ohuruogu, Vicky Pendleton and Laura Trott, to name a few, have acted as female role models in England.
I've never really seen myself as a role model, but if others see me as that then it's something of which I'd be very proud.
My first game was against India and while my roots will always be Indian I was born in England and wanted to represent them.
Looking back over all the sporting spectacles of 2016, I still pinch myself at the things I was fortunate to witness in person.
I like Tendulkar and I think the Indian batsmen are stylish but I support England and I have always wanted to play for England.
My parents were proud of the fact that I was playing cricket, they used to ferry me around during the weekends to play the game.
T20 is fast-paced and a wonderful vehicle to attract wider audience. On a technical level, it probably has impacted Test cricket.
With tournaments such as the Women's Big Bash and the Kia Super League, women are now well practised in the art of big strokeplay.