Nandni Sharma with Indian cricket team captain Harmanpreet Kaur. (Photo: Nandni Sharma/Instagram) Shyam Sundar Sharma still remembers the time when his daughter, Nandni Sharma, constantly urged him to enrol her at a cricket academy. The year was 2011, and Nandni was in fourth standard. It wasn’t the first time she’d made this request – she would plead nearly every evening when Sharma returned from his spare parts shop in the Industrial Area of Chandigarh . On Monday, Sharma had just returned home from his workplace when Nandni greeted him and broke the news: the 24-year-old pacer was named in the 15-member India squad for the Women’s T20 World Cup. “When Nandni was very young, her only demand from me was to get her enrolled in a cricket academy. She had made up her mind to play cricket. Like any parent, we wanted her to do whatever she wanted and did not even think for a moment to not enrol her,” Sharma told The Indian Express.…