From facing Shabnim Ismail to playing five Women’s World Cups: Sobhana Mostary’s slow rise up Bangladesh’s batting order
On May 14, 2018, a 16-year-old Sobhana Mostary became Bangladesh’s fourth-youngest debutant in women’s ODIs. It was a trial by pace as she faced South Africa’s Marizanne Kapp and Shabnim Ismail. The raw pace of the latter is still fresh in the batter’s mind. “I remember facing Shabnim Ismail in my first few deliveries on…