Kamini's shot against West Indies during ICC Women's World Cup 2013
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Full name | Thirush Kamini | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born |
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India |
30 July 1990 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting style | Left-hand bat | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling style | Right-arm Legbreak | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Role | Batsman | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Test debut | 13 August 2014 v England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last Test | 16 November 2014 v South Africa | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ODI debut (cap 6) | 7 March 2009 v Pakistan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last ODI | 10 February 2016 v Ireland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ODI shirt no. | 16 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2000/01/-2014/15 | Tamil Nadu Women | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2015/16-present | Railways Women | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Murugesan Dickeshwashankar Thirush Kamini (born 30 June 1990 in Madras) is an Indian cricketer who has played 38 women's one-day internationals for the Indian women's cricket team.
Thirushkamini started playing at the age of six when her father found her interest in cricket and is being coached by him ever since. She went on to represent Under 16 Tamil Nadu state at the age of 8 and represented Senior state at the age of 10. When she was 15 she represented Under 21 India that toured Pakistan and won Woman of the Match. She went on to represent INDIA at the age of 16 and won the Woman of the Series in her debut tournament. In 2007, she won the Allan Border Gavaskar scholarship and got the opportunity to train at the Centre of Excellence, Brisbane, Australia. Thirushkamini is the only woman cricketer to have won BCCI PLAYER OF THE YEARon three occasions (2007-2008 Junior Player of the Year, 2009-2010 Senior Player of the Year, 2012-2013 Senior Player of the Year). She has scored a century against West Indies in Women's World Cup 2013. Thirushkamini overtook Mithali Raj's record for the highest run in a World Cup game by scoring a 100 from 146 balls in the first match of ICC Women's World Cup 2013 and became the first Indian Women to score a Century in World Cup. In 2014, Kamini scored 192 of 430 balls in the test match against South Africa which is the second best score by an Indian women and the highest score by an Indian opener. She recently scored her career best unbeaten 113 of 194 balls against Ireland Women at the ICC Women World Cup Qualifiers 2017 at Colombo, Sri Lanka and became the first Indian Women to score a century in the Qualifiers as well. She is currently a contracted BCCI Grade A player.