Here are the details all you need to know about India’s women cricketer Shafali Verma, who is also the youngest female cricketer to play T20 Internationals for India.
New Delhi: Shefali Verma was born on 28 January 2004 in Rohtak district of Haryana and her father’s name is Sanjeev Verma, who runs a shop. Shefali Verma’s mother’s name is Praveen Vala, she is a housewife. By the way, Shefali Verma also has a younger sister named Nancy Verma and a brother named Rahul Verma. Since childhood, Shefali Verma was interested in playing cricket and she also wanted to become a cricketer. But she was a girl and at the same time, her circumstances never allowed her to move forward.
She had a passion for cricket since childhood and initially, she did not join any academy. She started cricket training at home. Then she also wanted to take training from an academy. To get her admitted to the academy, her father went to many academies and talked to her, but at that time, the small feeling of not letting the girls play cricket was stopping her. Being a girl, she wanted to train from an early age, that’s why at the age of 9, her father told Shafali to keep her hair like a boy! And gave her the form of a boy. After this, her father got Shefali Verma admitted to the Cricket Academy of Haryana.
Shefali Verma started her cricket training and then started practising at the local cricket club. Then once again she went to the cricket club to play cricket, where by batting brilliantly and performing very well in the match, she won the title of Man of the Match and Man of the Series in the very first match. After this, many cricket tournaments were played and Shefali Verma made her debut in international cricket in the year 2019 and became the first female cricketer to debut at such a young age.
Shafali Verma’s Education:
Talking about Shefali Verma’s education, she completed her primary education at Mandeep Senior Secondary School, Rohtak Haryana, and currently Shefali Verma is pursuing her graduation from Rohtak University. Well, since childhood, Shefali Verma liked playing cricket more than studying. On the insistence of her family, she is completing her further studies, she did not leave her studies and started playing cricket along with her studies and even now she is studying but is more focused towards cricket.
Shafali Verma’s Cricket Career:
Shefali Verma started her cricket career in 2013 when she was only 9 years old at that time. His love for cricket started when he went with his father to watch the match going on in the stadium of Rohtak. Then he also thought that once he too would play cricket like him.
Shefali Verma started her cricket career in 2013 when she was only 9 years old at that time. His love for cricket started when he went with his father to watch the match going on in the stadium of Rohtak. Then he also thought that once he too would play cricket like him. After starting her cricket career, Shefali Verma performed brilliantly in Under 19 after joining the Haryana women’s team. She performed with a big score against Nagaland while playing in the senior T20, which also earned her a place in the Women’s IPL.
Shefali Verma showed how much strength she had in 20-20 cricket in her childhood when she scored a half-century in an international match at the age of just 15 and achieved success. After this, he also broke the Puran record of Sachin Tendulkar, for which he was also honoured.
Similarly, with her explosive performance, Shefali Verma played a brilliant innings against West Indies in 2019, in which she hit fours and sixes and led the team to victory and with a similar performance, Shafali Verma also won the hearts of people with her explosive performance in the World Cup 2020, where she scored the most runs in the match against Bangladesh and became the man of the match.
Comments are closed.