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Meet Rithika Sri, the firsttransgender umpire from Tamil Nadu

The engineering dropout caught the umpiring bug while watching the IPL when she was working at a call centre in Mohali; she decided to make a career out of it after the COVID-19 pandemic forced her to return to Salem

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The Hindu26 Aug 2026, 10:17 amUpdated 1h ago1 min readSportsIndia

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Meet Rithika Sri, the first transgender umpire from Tamil Nadu

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Source: The Hindu. Published 26 Aug 2026, 10:17 am.

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