Murugesan Dickeshwashankar Thirush Kamini (born 30 July 1990) is an Indian

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er who has played 39

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s for the

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Cricket career

Thirushkamini started playing at the age of six when her father found her interest in

and is being coached by him ever since. She went on to represent Under 16

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state at the age of 8 and represented Senior state at the age of 10. When she was 15 she represented Under 21 India that toured

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and won Player of the Match. She went on to represent

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at the age of 16 and won the Player of the Series in her debut tournament. In 2007, she won the

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Gavaskar scholarship and got the opportunity to train at the Centre of Excellence,

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, 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

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in Women's World Cup 2013. Thirushkamini overtook

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'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

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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

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, Sri Lanka and became the first Indian woman to score a century in the Qualifiers as well. She is currently a contracted

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Grade A player. She is the only woman cricketer in the history of the game to be declared out for

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International centuries

Test centuries

One Day International centuries

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 Vasudevan Baskaran (born 17 August 1950) is a former field hockey player and coach from Tamil Nadu, India. He captained the India, which won the gold medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, then part of the Soviet Union. Thereafter he c ...

. 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 M.O.P. Vaishnav College for Women (Autonomous) is an arts and science college located in Chennai, Tamil Nadu in southern India. It is affiliated with the University of Madras. The current principal is Dr. Lalitha Balakrishnan who is a member o ...

, Chennai. She also completed her MPhil from Madras University. She played for Indian Railways while employed by Southern Railway in the personnel branch and. She resigned the job in Southern Railway in July 2021.

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

References

"Thirush Kamini, Deepti Sharma power Indian women to ODI series win over New Zealand"

"ZeeNewsSports"
''. Retrieved on 8 July 2015.

External links

Thirush Kamini
at Cricbuzz *

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