Vastrakar undergoes knee surgery, tweets a happy picture

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Vastrakar had injured her left knee while running in to bowl the second ball of her second over during the warm-up match against Windies in Coolidge on November 4 ahead of the World Twenty20 where India made it to the semifinals for the first time in eight years.

She was ruled out of the competition and was replaced by Devika Vaidya, the legspinner, but stayed on with the team till the semifinal loss.

A month after that injury Vastrakar put out an Instagram post which captured the extent of her injury.

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She slipped on the last step of her run up and fell down with the ball in her hand. She was in immediate pain and held on to her left kneee as Mithali Raj and other Indian players gathered around her. Tracy Fernandes, the Indian physiotherapist, rushed to the field, and she was taken off.

Vastrakar had missed the preceding tour of Sri Lanka because of fitness issues, but had passed the necessary tests to replace Shikha Pandey in the World T20 squad as the national selectors went with a rookie pace attack.

She then played for India A in the three T20s against Australia A, picking up four wickets and remaining unbeaten in two innings.

Vastrakar, 19, made her international debut during the tour of South Africa in February this year and made an immediate impression with her overall control while bowling. She made up for the absence of an injured Jhulan Goswami in the T20I series.

Soon after that she staked her claim as a genuine allrounder when she made a stroke-filled 51 in an ODI against Australia in Baroda.

Vastrakar, who hails from Madhya Pradesh, has so far played 6 ODIs and 11 T20Is. All her 12 international wickets so far have come in the game’s shortest format with best returns of 3 for 6 against Malaysia in the T20 Asia Cup in Kuala Lumpur.