Indian woman celebrates World Cup win with Australian team; Who is Urmila Rosario?

Ahmedabad: The Australian cricket team is elated after winning the title by defeating India in the ODI Cricket World Cup final. India, who fans and former players were unanimous in saying that they would win the title, had to settle for second place. After the World Cup ended, India started the next series. But a picture of an Indian woman standing with Aussie pacer Mitchell Starc with the World Cup trophy is now viral.

The party is Urmila Rosario, manager of the Australian team for the World Cup. How did Urmila, who is from Karnataka, become the manager of the Aussie team? Since reaching the World Cup in India, 34-year-old Urmila has arranged and supervised all the travel and accommodation of the team from Thiruvananthapuram to Ahmedabad.

Urmila is a native of Mangaluru, Karnataka. Urmila is the youngest of four children of Valentine Rosario Ivia. Though Indian, Urmila and her siblings were born in Qatar. Like their parents, all the children are working abroad. Rosario and his wife returned to India in 2016. After returning here, the duo bought a coffee plantation and are now looking after its operations.

Urmila has been interested in sports since childhood. She also wanted to become a tennis player. She started as a ball girl and managed to excel on the tennis court as well. But some accidents at a young age and a broken leg forced them to say goodbye to tennis. Later she returned to India for her studies. Deciding to revive his tennis dreams, Mahesh joined Bhupathi’s father and former Indian coach Krishna Bhupathi’s Tennis Village.

But Krishna Bhupathi told them that previous accidents and injury to his right leg would prevent him from playing tennis and he would not be able to become a professional player. Krishna Bhupathi himself advised Urmila that she can make a good career in sports management. Urmila later returned to Doha and completed her studies in business management.

He then worked at the Qatar Tennis Federation for three years. From there, Urmila went to Australia and worked with the Adelaide cricket team for three years. After that, he worked with the Australian women’s team. In between, he returned to Qatar to manage a stadium during the Qatar World Cup. From there, he returned home in September to take over as manager of the Australian men’s team for the World Cup.