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
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 place2022 HangzhouTeam
Commonwealth Games
Silver medal – second place2022 Birmingham
ICC Women's T20 World Cup
Runner-up2020 Australia
ICC Under-19 Women's T20 World Cup
Winner2023 South Africa

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.

Early life

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

Career

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

  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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