In fact, even as Renuka Thakur was teasing her saying that she would be up all night, Thakor brushed it all away with a smile. That is exactly what happened. With her mother and family having travelled to Ahmedabad to watch the three-match ODI series against New Zealand, Thakor dialled her elder sister in the middle of the night. "I just called her at 12 in the night and said, 'You take a flight now and get here the next day'," recalls Thakor in a conversation with this daily on the sidelines of Mumbai's win against Punjab in the senior women's T20 pre-quarterfinal in Mumbai.
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