Thirush Kamini

Murugesan Dickeshwashankar Thirush Kamini (born 30 July 1990) is an Indian cricketer who has played 39 women's one-day internationals for the Indian women's cricket team. [1]

Thirush Kamini
Kamini's shot against West Indies during ICC Women's World Cup 2013
Personal information
Full nameMurugesan Dickeshwashankar Thirush Kamini
Born (1990-07-30) 30 July 1990
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
BattingLeft-handed
BowlingRight-arm legbreak
RoleBatter
International information
National side
Test debut (cap 74)13 August 2014 v England
Last Test16 November 2014 v South Africa
ODI debut (cap 83)7 March 2006 v Pakistan
Last ODI10 February 2017 v Ireland
ODI shirt no.16
T20I debut (cap 12)28 October 2008 v Australia
Last T20I4 April 2013 v Bangladesh
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
2000/01–2014/15Tamil Nadu
2015/16–presentRailways
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI T20I
Matches 2 39 3
Runs scored 237 825 67
Batting average 79.00 25.78 33.50
100s/50s 1/0 2/3 0/1
Top score 192 113* 56
Balls bowled 6 384 –
Wickets 0 9 –
Bowling average – 45.53 –
5 wickets in innings – 30.11 –
10 wickets in match – 0 –
Best bowling – 3/19 –
Catches/stumpings 0/– 5/– 0/–
Source: ESPN Cricinfo, 17 January 2020

Cricket career

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.[2] 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 Year on 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 off 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 off 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.

She is the only women cricketer in the history of the game to be declared out for Obstructing the field.[3]

Personal life

Growing up, she was coached by Dickshwashankar her father, who was a hockey player for Tamil Nadu. He played alongside Olympian Vasudevan Baskaran.

Thirush Kamini did her schooling in Sacred Heart Church Park School and under-graduation and her master's degree from M.O.P. Vaishnav College for Women, Chennai.[4] She also completed her MPhil from Madras University.

She is currently working in Southern Railway in personnel branch now and playing for Indian Railways.[5]

Awards
  • BCCI Junior Player of the Year 2007-2008
  • BCCI Senior Player of the Year 2009-2010
  • BCCI Senior Player of the Year 2012-2014[6]

References

[7] [8] [9] [10] [11]

  1. "Thirush Kamini player profile". Cricinfo. Retrieved 6 March 2010.
  2. "Honing their game on an uneven pitch - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 28 August 2017.
  3. Staff, CricketCountry (13 November 2016). "MD Thirushkamini first women cricketer to be given out Obstructing the Field". Cricket Country. Retrieved 28 August 2017.
  4. Mukherjee, Abhishek (3 March 2017). "Up close with Thirushkamini, the Chennai Super Queen". Cricket Country. Retrieved 28 August 2017.
  5. "Meet the star of the Indian women's cricket team". dtNext.in. 25 December 2015. Retrieved 28 August 2017.
  6. "Meet woman cricketer Thirush Kamini". femina.in. Retrieved 28 August 2017.
  7. "Kamini 192 and Kaur's nine flay South Africa.", cricinfo, India v South Africa, only Women's Test, Mysore. Retrieved on 19 November 2005.
  8. "Thirush Kamini becomes first Indian woman to hit century in World Cup", "cricketcountry-staff,", India v West Indies, Brabourne Stadium. Retrieved on 31 January 2013.
  9. "Women's World Cup Qualifier: Thirush Kamini's ton takes India to Super Six", "Oneindia",, Colombo. Retrieved on 11 February 2017.
  10. "Thirush Kamini gets 2nd highest Test score for India Women", "cricketcountry-staff",. Retrieved on 17 November 2014.
  11. "Thirush Kamini, Deepti Sharma power Indian women to ODI series win over New Zealand", "ZeeNewsSports",. Retrieved on 8 July 2015.
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