Natthakan Chantam

Natthakan Chantam [lower-alpha 1][2] (born 1 January 1996) is a Thai cricketer.[3] She played for the Thailand women's national cricket team in the 2017 Women's Cricket World Cup Qualifier in February 2017.[4]

Natthakan Chantam
Chantam batting for Thailand during the 2020 ICC Women's T20 World Cup
Personal information
Born (1996-01-01) 1 January 1996
NicknameJeans[1]
BattingRight hand
BowlingRight-arm medium-fast
RoleBatter
International information
National side
T20I debut (cap 3)3 June 2018 v Pakistan
Last T20I3 March 2020 v Pakistan
Source: Cricinfo, 3 March 2020

In June 2018, she was named in Thailand's squad for the 2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 Qualifier tournament.[5] She made her Women's Twenty20 International (WT20I) debut for Thailand on 3 June 2018, in the 2018 Women's Twenty20 Asia Cup.[6] In November 2018, she was named in the Women's Global Development Squad, to play fixtures against Women's Big Bash League (WBBL) clubs.[7]

In August 2019, she was named in Thailand's squad for the 2019 ICC Women's World Twenty20 Qualifier tournament in Scotland.[8] In January 2020, she was named in Thailand's squad for the 2020 ICC Women's T20 World Cup in Australia.[9] She was the leading run-scorer for Thailand in the tournament, with 103 runs in four matches.[10] In Thailand's last match of the tournament, against Pakistan, she scored 56 to register her country’s first Women’s T20 World Cup half-century, and shared in an opening partnership of 93 with Nattaya Boochatham.[11][12]

In October 2020, she was selected to play for the IPL Trailblazers in the 2020 Women's T20 Challenge league,[13] becoming the first Thai cricketer to play in a professional Twenty20 franchise league.[14] In the tournament final, she played a prominent role in the Trailblazers' victory, by diving spectacularly to save a boundary by Jemimah Rodrigues, and then by taking a breakthrough catch in the covers to dismiss Rodrigues off the bowling of Deepti Sharma.[15]

In November 2020, Chantam was nominated for the ICC Women's Associate Cricketer of the Decade award.[16]

Notes
  1. Thai pronunciation: [nɛtʰaːˈkaːn tɕʰɛnˈtaːm]

References
  1. Ananya, Upendran (6 March 2020). "Lessons, laughs, leadership and a love of the game – Thailand's memorable T20 World Cup campaign". Women's Criczone. Retrieved 6 July 2020.
  2. Pandey, Devendra (3 November 2020). "No access to cricket on TV, now ready to play 'live': Thailand's Nattakan (sic) Chantam makes progress". The Indian Express. Retrieved 11 November 2020.
  3. "Natthakan Chantam". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 12 February 2017.
  4. "ICC Women's World Cup Qualifier, 6th Match, Group A: India Women v Thailand Women at Colombo (CCC), Feb 8, 2017". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 12 February 2017.
  5. "ICC announces umpire and referee appointments for ICC Women's World Twenty20 Qualifier 2018". International Cricket Council. Retrieved 27 June 2018.
  6. "3rd Match, Women's Twenty20 Asia Cup at Kuala Lumpur, Jun 3 2018". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 4 July 2018.
  7. "Second Women's Global Development Squad heads to Rebel Women's Big Bash League". International Cricket Council. Retrieved 14 November 2018.
  8. "Match official appointments and squads announced for ICC Women's T20 World Cup Qualifier 2019". International Cricket Council. Retrieved 21 August 2019.
  9. "Thailand name squad for their first Women's T20 World Cup". International Cricket Council. Retrieved 29 January 2020.
  10. "ICC Women's T20 World Cup, 2019/20 - Thailand Women: Batting and bowling averages". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 3 March 2020.
  11. Admin (3 March 2020). "Thailand batters shine in washed-out finale". GoSports. Retrieved 3 July 2020.
  12. Voigt-Hill, Xavier (3 March 2020). "Natthakan Chantam's sparkling half-century shows what Thailand can do with exposure and experience". The Cricketer. Retrieved 3 July 2020.
  13. "BCCI Announces Squads for Women's T20 Challenge". IPL T20. Retrieved 11 October 2020.
  14. "Thailand's Natthakan Chantham picked for Women's IPL". Emerging Cricket. Retrieved 11 October 2020.
  15. Team Latestly (9 November 2020). "Nattakan (sic) Chantam Praised for Her Spectacular Fielding Effort and Catch in Trailblazers vs Supernovas Women's T20 Challenge Final (Watch Video)". Latestly. Retrieved 11 November 2020.
  16. "ICC Awards of the Decade announced". International Cricket Council. Retrieved 25 November 2020.

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