Kolkata: Former Indian women’s cricket team player and coach Sreerupa Mukherjee passed away Thursday morning after suffering cardiac arrest. She was 65 and is survived by husband Paresh Nath Mukherjee and daughter Amrita.
In fact, it was an interview that never ended for the former player-turned-commentator. She was being interviewed by a national TV channel when she excused herself. When she did not reappear even after half-an-hour, the interviewer informed the other residents. She was then found unconscious inside the bathroom. She was rushed to a nearby nursing where the doctors pronounced her ‘brought dead’.
Srirupa had played two ODIs for India against New Zealand. She was also the coach of the Indian women’s team during three World Cups – 1993, 1997 and 2000.
She was also a well-known sports commentator for Doordarshan and All India Radio through mid 1980’s and till the late 1990’s.
However, cricket was not her only forte. Sreerupa was multiple national level player and represented Bengal in hockey, basketball and was the first woman cricket selector from East Zone.
As an administrator, she served the Sports Association of India (Eastern Centre) as a joint-director and recently she was appointed a guest lecturer at the Journalism Department of Calcutta University.
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