Is a famous female cricketer of India. He is the youngest cricketer to represent India in T20 international cricket. Shaifali Verma became the youngest international half -century cricketer with the first international half -century at the age of 15. He broke the record of Sachin Tendulkar’s 30 -year -old record that Sachin won at the age of 16 with the first international half -century. Not only this, Shefali Verma has now become the youngest cricketer to represent India in all three formats of cricket.
Introduction
Shefali Verma was born on 28 January 2004 in Rohtak district of Haryana. His father was interested in cricket from the beginning. He used to play cricket and also wanted to play internationally, but his circumstances never let him move forward. When he saw this madness of cricket inside his daughter, he also started training his daughter at home. Later, when he also realized professional training, he tried to get Shefali admission in many academy for professional training. But if Shefali was a girl, how could she play with boys. The small spirit of the society stopped him from getting admission in any academy. But despite the small thinking of the society, Shefali and her father did not stop fulfilling their dreams. Shefali Verma’s father got his hair cut at the age of 9 and gave him a boy. Shefali was immediately enrolled in a professional academy and started taking cricket training in a professional manner.
Tomboy
Shefali Verma remained in the shape of ‘Tomboy’ for many years, but later when women’s discrimination was erased in India and formed a women’s cricket academy, Shefali enrolled in a women’s academy. Despite this, Shefali’s father’s relatives made a lot of critical comments on teaching cricket to the girl, even after which Sanjeev did not stop and made his daughter a great female cricketer by making all efforts.
Career
Due to her excellent performance, Shefali Verma got admission in Haryana’s domestic women’s cricket team. He first illuminated the name of his state Haryana and later got a chance to show his performance under ‘Women’s Mini IPL 2020’, at that time Mithali was the captain of the Raj team. Shefali was also included in that Velocity team. Due to its excellent performance, Velocity’s team reached the final section of this tournament. But even after his best efforts, the Velocity team was defeated by the Supernova team playing under the leadership of Harmanpreet Kaur.
Due to the continuous good performance, Shefali Verma did not take long to reach international cricket. In 2019, Shefali got a chance to play a match against South Africa’s women’s team under the T20 series. When former captain of the Indian team Mithali Raj took himself out of T20 cricket, Shefali Verma then got admission in that team. Internationally, Shefali, while showing her high performance, fulfilled her father’s dream by becoming an international cricketer. At the age of just 15, she also recorded her name as the youngest female cricketer in the international team.[1]
Record
Shefali Verma is the second woman in India who had shown her cricket performance internationally at the youngest. Earlier in 1978, at the age of just 14, a woman named Gargi first made this record in her name. At the same time, this record is recorded in the men’s cricket team after Sachin Tendulkar, who showed his best performance in India’s international cricket at the age of just 16 years. Internationally, Shefali Verma did not give any special performance during her first match and she was dismissed for zero, after that 2 matches of that series were canceled due to rain but during the fourth match, Shaifali is the best And the banged performance caused everyone’s heart. He scored 46 runs with five fours and two sixes in the best batting of just 33 balls while opening in the grounds of Surat on 1 October 2019 during that match. Shefali Verma made her ODI debut against England at the age of 17 years 150 days and made history. Shefali Verma achieved the distinction of representing India in all three formats of cricket at the youngest. By the age of 17 years 150 days, he has represented Team India in all three formats of cricket and surpassed Smriti Mandhana in this matter. Before Shefali, Smriti Mandhana became a wonderful player for India. Smriti represented India in all three formats of cricket till the age of 18 years 26 days and now she has come second in this matter. At number three is the Indian team’s fast bowler Ishant Sharma, who did this wonders at the age of 19 years 152 days.