Richa appointed DSP in Bengal police

KOLKATA: Richa Ghosh is acceptable to deterioration a caller cap. The World Cup-winning cricketer was appointed Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) successful the authorities constabulary by the Bengal authorities connected Saturday.

Later successful the evening, a glittering one-hour felicitation ceremonial was organised for Richa by the Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) astatine the iconic Eden Gardens here. The 22-year-old cricketer went to the constabulary office successful Kolkata successful the day to conscionable higher officials of authorities constabulary wherever her assignment was finalised. She frankincense joined her World Cup-winning teammate Deepti Sharma (UP Police) on with different cricketers Mohammed Siraj (Telangana Police) and Joginder Sharma (Haryana Police) successful the aforesaid post. At the Eden Gardens, Richa was presented with a aureate bat and ball, portion main curate Mamata Banerjee personally handed implicit the Banga Bhushan medal, the DSP assignment missive and a golden chain. The CAB besides handed her a cheque of Rs 34 lakh - Rs 1 lakh each for each tally she scored successful the World Cup final. Sharing the dais with erstwhile India captains Sourav Ganguly and Jhulan Goswami, Richa stood gangly arsenic the archetypal from the authorities to bring location a World Cup.

CAB president Ganguly emphasised connected the batter's onslaught rate. "I utilized to unfastened the innings but cognize however hard is the relation of No. 6 and No. 7 batters successful white-ball cricket. You get minimum balls to get maximum runs. Richa's onslaught made the quality for India's run successful this World Cup," helium said. Legendary Jhulan recalled the days erstwhile she archetypal saw Richa. "It was 2013 erstwhile Bengal cricket was not doing well. So I requested CAB officials to commencement a endowment hunt programme. As they gracefully agreed, I had the accidental to determination to the districts and that was however I archetypal saw Richa," Goswami, who aboriginal fought to get young Richa into the elder authorities side, stated.