India, Oct. 31 -- In the immediate afterglow of her finest evening in India colours, Jemimah Rodrigues was a bundle of emotions... lost in happy tears in the middle after defeating mighty Australia. And she was still crying close to midnight... letting her deepest feelings of anxiety be known to the wider world as she addressed the media.

Whether it is with her dressing room pranks, strumming the guitar in the team bus or throwing herself around on the field while exhibiting her sharp fielding reflexes, the lively Mumbai girl always seems to hold centrestage effortlessly.

But a batting hero, she has rarely been. If there was a motion film on the Indian women's cricket team, Jemimah would be the character artist, winning awards with crit...