Mandira Bedi Opens Up On Dealing With Sexism By Cricket Legends; 'I Was Just Miserable, I Would Cry'

Mandira Bedi revolutionized the way people saw female sports presenters in India. She took the Cricket world by storm with her noodle strap saree. However, the climb in a male-dominated sports was not easy for Mandira Bedi.

Recently, she opened up about dealing with sexism on a daily basis by Cricket legends who never had a female on the panel before. In an interview with Humans of Bombay, Mandira Bedi described the first week of her job as a sports presenter as difficult. ''They had never had a woman sitting on the panel.

So, the legends sitting on the left and the right, they weren’t particularly excited about having a woman on the panel,'' she recalled. ''I would ask a question, some of my questions were really silly, irrelevant, stupid, but my brief was, ‘You ask the questions that come to your mind. Whatever you have in your mind, it’s not off the table, go ahead and ask’.

So, if I have those questions in my mind, then somebody at home has got similar questions in their mind. I am not supposed to represent the purist, I am supposed to represent the common person,'' Mandira Bedi stated. She recalled how the Cricket legends would not even acknowledge her or her questions on the panel.

Overwhelmed with the hostile environment, Mandira would keep her head down and cry. Meanwhile, the people sitting on the side would excuse themselves. ''I was just miserable and nobody said anything to me for the first one week,'' she said.

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