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Divya Saxena (born 16 September 1993) is a Canadian cricketer. She plays for the national women's cricket team as an all-rounder and has also previously played for the
Kenya women's cricket team The Kenya national women's cricket team is the team that represents the country of Kenya in international women's cricket. Their first matches were in January 2006 when they played a triangular series against Kenya A and Uganda. History Ke ...
. She is currently the vice-captain of the Canadian team.


Domestic career

Ahead of the 2023 season, it was announced that Saxena would be in the
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squad for the Women's Super50 Cup and
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.


International career


Kenya

Saxena began her international career with the Kenya team. On 9 December 2006, at the very young age of , she made her debut for Kenya against Zimbabwe at the
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, Nairobi, during that year's ICC Women's World Cup Qualifying Series Africa Region tournament. The following day, she played her second and final match for Kenya against Uganda at the
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, Nairobi. Both matches were played in a 50over format.


Canada

On 7 October 2021, Saxena was named vice-captain of the Canada team sq