Why was India’s G.S. Lakshmi in news recently ?

Why was India’s G.S. Lakshmi in news recently ?

She was the first Indian to play cricket for an English County Club.
She became the first female ICC match referee.
She was awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Award for the year 2019.
She was the recipient of the Booker Prize in the year 2019.
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G.S. Lakshmi became the first female match referee in the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) panel of match referees in May 2019.
Her appointment was a significant step towards promoting women officials in cricket at the international level.
Prior to this, she had overseen matches in domestic women’s cricket tournaments in India and had also served as a match referee in three Women’s One Day International matches and three Women’s Twenty20 International matches.