India, June 14 -- Lady doctor Caroline de Lange is not a doctor for a while. She is a cricketer representing the Netherlands in the ongoing T20 World Cup for women in England. It's the Dutch team's maiden T20 World Cup.

She had to choose, and choose she did, in favour of the T20 tournament. "I had already made the decision before the qualifier, 'If we qualify, I'm going to quit first of May' and we qualified. I love my job, but I was really happy," de Lange, who completed her graduation early last year before picking up an internship job in a hospital in the Hague, told ESPNcricinfo.

But by the time the qualifiers - there were many - ended and the Netherlands qualified eventually, she had run out of all her leave, and as a result, she h...