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Shafali Verma

Summary

Shafali Verma (born 28 January 2004) is an Indian cricketer who plays for the India women's national cricket team.[2][3][4] In 2019, at the age of 15, she became the youngest cricketer to play in a Women's Twenty20 International match for India.[5] In June 2021, she became the youngest player, male or female, to represent India in all three formats of international cricket.[6] On 8 October 2022 she became the youngest cricketer to complete 1000 runs in T20 Internationals. Under her captaincy, India won the 2023 ICC Under-19 Women's T20 World Cup.

Shafali Verma
Verma hitting a six for India during the 2020 ICC Women's T20 World Cup
Personal information
Full name
Shafali Verma
Born (2004-01-28) 28 January 2004 (age 20)
Rohtak, Haryana, India[1]
BattingRight-handed
BowlingRight-arm off-spin
RoleBatter
International information
National side
Test debut (cap 86)16 June 2021 v England
Last Test14 December 2023 v England
ODI debut (cap 131)27 June 2021 v England
Last ODI24 September 2022 v England
ODI shirt no.17
T20I debut (cap 64)24 September 2019 v South Africa
Last T20I23 February 2023 v Australia
T20I shirt no.17
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
2017/18–presentHaryana
2019–2022Velocity
2021Birmingham Phoenix
2021/22Sydney Sixers
2023–presentDelhi Capitals
Career statistics
Competition WTest WODI WT20I
Matches 2 21 49
Runs scored 242 531 1198
Batting average 60.50 26.55 24.95
100s/50s 0/3 0/4 0/5
Top score 96 71* 73
Balls bowled - 18 102
Wickets - 1 5
Bowling average - 9.00 18.80
5 wickets in innings - 0 0
10 wickets in match - 0 0
Best bowling - 1/5 2/10
Catches/stumpings 1/0 6/– 11/–
Source: ESPNcricinfo, 23 February 2023
Medal record
Representing  India
Women's Cricket
Asian Games
Gold medal – first place 2022 Hangzhou Team
Commonwealth Games
Silver medal – second place 2022 Birmingham
ICC Women's T20 World Cup
Runner-up 2020 Australia
ICC Under-19 Women's T20 World Cup
Winner 2023 South Africa

Early life edit

During her childhood, Verma initially played cricket disguised as a boy due to a lack of girls' cricket academies in Rohtak.[7]

Career edit

Before international cricket, she played for Velocity in the Women's T20 Challenge in which she scored 34 runs in 31 balls.[8] In September 2019, she was named in India's Women's Twenty20 International (WT20I) squad for their series against South Africa.[9] She made her WT20I debut for India at the age of fifteen, against South Africa, on 24 September 2019.[10] She was the youngest player to play for India in a T20I match,[11] and in November 2019 against the West Indies, became the youngest half-centurion for India in international cricket.[12][13] Against the West Indies, she scored 158 runs in five matches, and was named the player of the series.[14]

In January 2020, she was named in India's squad for the 2020 ICC Women's T20 World Cup in Australia,[15] and was awarded with a central contract by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI).[16] Ahead of the 2020 ICC Women's T20 World Cup, she was ranked as the number one batter in women's T20I cricket.[17]

In May 2021, she was named in India's Test and Women's One Day International (WODI) squads for their series against the England women's cricket team.[18][19] Verma made her Test debut on 16 June 2021, for India against England,[20] scoring 96 runs in her first Test innings.[21] The Test match was drawn, and Verma was named the player of the match after scoring 159 runs in her two innings.[22][23] Verma made her WODI debut for India, against England, on 27 June 2021.[24] She was signed by Birmingham Phoenix for the first season of The Hundred.[25]

She played for Sydney Sixers in the 2021 WBBL, where she scored her maiden fifty against Hobart Hurricanes.[26] In January 2022, she was named in India's team for the 2022 Women's Cricket World Cup in New Zealand.[27] In July 2022, she was named in India's team for the cricket tournament at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England.[28]

India opener Shafali Verma was sold to Delhi Capitals for Rs 2 crore at the Women's Premier League Auction in Mumbai on Monday.[29] In her first match against Royal Challengers Bangalore Challengers Bangalore,she scored her maiden fifty. She came to bat as an opener and scored 84 runs in just 45 balls.

References edit

  1. ^ "Women's T20 World Cup: Rohtak to Sydney, the journey of Shafali Verma". SportStar. Retrieved 21 February 2020.
  2. ^ "Shafali Verma". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 24 September 2019.
  3. ^ "Shafali Verma, the tomboy teen who could be India's next cricket superstar". Gulf News. Retrieved 24 September 2019.
  4. ^ "Women's T20 World Cup: Shafali Verma, India's 16-year-old 'rock star'". BBC Sport. Retrieved 4 March 2020.
  5. ^ "20 women cricketers for the 2020s". The Cricket Monthly. Retrieved 24 November 2020.
  6. ^ "Shafali Verma Becomes Youngest Indian Cricketer To Play All 3 Formats". NDTV. Retrieved 27 June 2021.
  7. ^ Raj, Pratyush (3 October 2019). "India's youngest T20I debutante trained as a boy as no Rohtak academy would admit girls". The Times of India. Retrieved 21 July 2021.
  8. ^ "Shafali Verma: Star in a Prodigy's Age, June 24 2021". Yorker World. Retrieved 24 June 2021.
  9. ^ "Fifteen-year-old Shafali Verma gets maiden India call-up". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 5 September 2019.
  10. ^ "1st T20I (N), South Africa Women tour of India at Surat, Sep 24 2019". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 24 September 2019.
  11. ^ "Hadlee's nine-for". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 13 November 2019.
  12. ^ "Shafali Verma, India's 15-year-old prodigy". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 10 November 2019.
  13. ^ "India's Shafali Verma, 15, becomes youngest player to score a fifty for country". BBC Sport. Retrieved 12 November 2019.
  14. ^ "Jemimah, Veda help IND blank WI 5-0 in T20Is". Women's CricZone. Archived from the original on 10 December 2019. Retrieved 21 November 2019.
  15. ^ "Kaur, Mandhana, Verma part of full strength India squad for T20 World Cup". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 12 January 2020.
  16. ^ "Fifteen-year-old Shafali Verma awarded BCCI contract". International Cricket Council. Retrieved 17 January 2020.
  17. ^ "Celebrating up and coming cricketers this International Youth Day". International Cricket Council. Retrieved 12 August 2020.
  18. ^ "India's Senior Women squad for the only Test match, ODI & T20I series against England announced". Board of Control for Cricket in India. Retrieved 14 May 2021.
  19. ^ "England v India: Shafali Verma & Indrani Roy in touring squad". BBC Sport. Retrieved 16 May 2021.
  20. ^ "Only Test, Bristol, Jun 16 - 19 2021, India Women tour of England". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 16 June 2021.
  21. ^ "India collapse after Verma's 96". BBC Sport. Retrieved 18 June 2021.
  22. ^ "Rana heroics deny England as India tail bats out the final day". International Cricket Council. Retrieved 20 June 2021.
  23. ^ "From T20 super star to Test opener: How Shafali Verma stamped her authority in the longer format". Women's CricZone. Retrieved 22 June 2021.
  24. ^ "1st ODI, Bristol, Jun 27 2021, India Women tour of England". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 27 June 2021.
  25. ^ "The Hundred 2021 - full squad lists". BBC Sport. Retrieved 2 February 2022.
  26. ^ Quint, The (13 May 2021). "Shafali Verma Set for First Women's BBL Stint With Sydney Sixers". TheQuint. Retrieved 23 October 2021.
  27. ^ "Renuka Singh, Meghna Singh, Yastika Bhatia break into India's World Cup squad". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 6 January 2022.
  28. ^ "Team India (Senior Women) squad for Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games announced". Board of Control for Cricket in India. Retrieved 11 July 2022.
  29. ^ Tripathi, Prabal, ed. (17 February 2023). "wpl-auction-2023-shafali-verma-sold-delhi-capitals-price". Sprotstar. Retrieved 17 February 2023.

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