Niranjana Nagarajan
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Niranjana Nagarajan (born 9 October 1988) is an Indian
cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...
er. She represented
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in 2 WTests, 22 WODIs and 14
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. She is a right hand batsman and bowls right-arm medium-fast.


Career

She made her debut in
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on 30 August 2008 during India's tour of England in a WODI against
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at North Parade, Bath. She also played for
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,
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, South Zone and
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in domestic cricket. She displayed her bowling talent on the English ground when Indian Women played England in their five-match Test series in 2014. The England team were bowled out for just 92 due her outstanding performance (4/19). As of 2017, she had played two Tests, 22 ODIs and 14 T20Is for India.


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Niranjana’s ticket to cricketing glory
Living people 1988 births Cricketers from Chennai India women One Day International cricketers India women Twenty20 International cricketers India women Test cricketers Tamil Nadu women cricketers Railways women cricketers South Zone women cricketers Central Zone women cricketers {{India-cricket-bio-1988-stub