Mandira Bedi says she got stared down by cricketers while interviewing them

Actress Mandira Bedi has recalled how she would get stared down by ‘a lot of the cricketers’ when she was hosting pre-match shows at cricket tournaments. In a recent interview, Mandira uncovered that many of them would be like ‘what’s she even asking’ when she asked them questions. She likewise said that their answers were regularly not connected to her questions and that intimidated her.

In an interview with Pinkvilla, Mandira talked about cricket, “Nobody accepted me to begin with, certainly not the people sitting on the panel. I’m friends with all the ex-cricketers now who I worked with back then as well but they didn’t like that either. They didn’t like that there was a woman wearing a saree, dressed up, talking cricket. Nobody fed me any lines, nobody fed me any questions. I was there to represent the layperson who doesn’t know every technicality of cricket, who does not know every nuance of cricket.”

She added.”I was told whatever question comes to your mind at that particular point of time if you’re thinking it ask it. I was given that freedom. Of course, I got stared down by a lot of the cricketers like- what’s she even asking, why is she even asking that. They answered whatever they wanted to answer nothing connected to my question and that can be very very intimidating but I kind of was assured by the channel, it was Sony, that backed me and chose me from 150-200 women. They said that we’ve chosen you with the reason we think you have what it takes to stay, so go ahead and be yourself and start enjoying yourself.”