Cricket runs in her blood, but the young Fatima Jaffer from Mumbai Indians has chosen to trot on a different path, defying the family tradition. The niece of former India and Mumbai batter Wasim Jaffer, Fatima has taken to bowling instead, and that too in a quirky way.

She is one of the rare ambidextrous bowlers in the Indian domestic circuit, a right-arm medium pacer who can fill in the role of a left-arm spinner when the situation demands so. But her beginning as an ambidextrous bowler happened in a less than creditable circumstances.