Geetika Kodali (born 7 June 2004) is an American

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er. She made her senior international debut in May 2019 at the age of fourteen.

Biography

She started playing cricket at the age of eleven with her friends and relatives. She began to take interest in cricket as her career when she received her formal training at the age of fifteen at the Cricket Zeal Academy in California. She also went onto represent San Ramon Cricket Association and Triangle Cricket League.

Domestic career

In January 2022, she was signed up by South Coast Sapphires for the

2022 FairBreak Invitational T20 The 2022 FairBreak Invitational T20 was a women's Twenty20 cricket competition, which took place from 4 to 15 May 2022 in Dubai. The tournament, sanctioned by the ICC, was privately-run by FairBreak Global, a company that aims to promote gende ...

which was also the inaugural edition of the tournament. In 2022, she was bought by the

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as an overseas player for the inaugural edition of

The 6ixty The 2022 season of The 6ixty, also known as Sky Exch The 6ixty, for sponsorship reasons, was a T10 cricket tournament organized by Cricket West Indies (CWI) and the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) which was played in St. Kitts and Nevis in its i ...

which was held in the West Indies. On 25 August 2022, during a group stage match between Trinbago Knight Riders and

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, she claimed a hat-trick against Barbados Royals to become the first woman to take a hat-trick in The 6ixty competition. She dismissed

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and Chloe Tyron to complete the hat-trick and her efforts ensured her side Trinbago Knight Riders secure a 29 run win over Barbados Royals after successfully defending the total of 92. In August 2022, she was signed as an overseas player for

for the inaugural edition of the

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International career

She made her

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(WT20I) debut for the United States women's cricket team at the age of 14 on 19 May 2019, against

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, in the

2019 ICC Women's Qualifier Americas The 2019 ICC Women's Qualifier Americas was a cricket tournament that was held in the United States in May 2019. The matches in the tournament were played as Women's Twenty20 Internationals (WT20Is), with the top team progressing to both the 201 ...

tournament. In August 2019, she was named in United States' squad for the

2019 ICC Women's World Twenty20 Qualifier The 2019 ICC Women's T20 World Cup Qualifier was an international women's cricket tournament that was held in August and September 2019 in Scotland. It was the fourth edition of the Women's T20 World Cup Qualifier and was the qualification tour ...

tournament in Scotland. She played in the United States' final match of the tournament, on 7 September 2019, against

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. In February 2020, she joined the FairBreak XI with the intention of promoting gender equality in sports and featured in some of Fairbreak XI's invitational matches in Australia. In February 2021, she was named in the Women's National Training Group by the USA Cricket Women's National Selectors ahead of the

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and the

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tournaments. In September 2021, she was named in the United States' squad for the

and was a member of the national side which emerged triumphant during the four team tournament and as a result America qualified to the

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. In October 2021, she was named in the American team for the

tournament in Zimbabwe. In August 2022, she captained USA women's U-19 side in its historic thumping series win over the West Indies women's U-19 side in a five match T20 series 4-1. In September 2022, she was named in the United States' squad for the

which was held in the United Arab Emirates. In December 2022, she was appointed as the captain of the USA Under-19 women's national team for the

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, which is also set to be the inaugural edition of the

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kodali, Geetika 2004 births Living people Sportspeople from Fremont, California American women cricketers United States women Twenty20 International cricketers Cricketers from California American people of Telugu descent American sportspeople of Indian descent 21st-century American women Trinbago Knight Riders (WCPL) cricketers