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Shafali Verma
Shafali Verma (born 28 January 2004) is an Indian cricketer who plays for the Indian women's national cricket team. In 2019, at the age of 15, she became the youngest cricketer to play in a Women's Twenty20 International (T20I) match for India. In June 2021, she became the youngest player, male or female, to represent India in all three formats of international cricket. On 8 October 2022, she became the youngest cricketer to complete 1,000 runs in T20 Internationals. Under her captaincy, India won the 2023 Under-19 Women's T20 World Cup. She was named as Player of the Match in the finals of the 2025 Women's Cricket World Cup.
Verma was born in Rohtak, Haryana, to father Sanjeev Verma and mother Parveen Bala. She has an older brother, Sahil, and a younger sister, Nancy (or Nensi). All three of them play cricket. Her father, "[a] die-hard cricket fan" who was unable to pursue cricket as a profession due to family pressure, is the proprietor of a small jewellery shop.
Verma began playing cricket at the age of eight. Her brother, a leg spinner, and her father would take her to a local ground to practise in the nets. In 2019, she told Hindustan Times:
"Both would bowl for long hours and I would hit the ball hard. That’s where I learnt this rule – if the ball is there to be hit then it should be hit hard."
Verma's father is a fan of "cricketing god" Sachin Tendulkar, and often watched videos of Tendulkar's innings with Verma and her brother. Tendulkar also became Verma's idol.
In late 2013, Verma went, for the first time, to Chaudhary Bansi Lal Cricket Stadium in Lahli, a small town near Rohtak, with her father to see Mumbai playing a Ranji Trophy group fixture against Haryana. There, with Verma sitting on her father's shoulder, they watched Tendulkar featuring in his final domestic match; Verma cheered every time her idol scored.
At around that time, Verma's father took steps to enrol her in a cricket academy in Rohtak.
Initially, all of the Rohtak academies refused to admit Verma, because she was a girl. Eventually, on her father's instructions, she cut her hair short, and disguised herself as her brother. The two siblings looked alike and had similar hairstyles. Then, her father enrolled her, as a boy, in the Shree Ram Narain Cricket Academy.
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Shafali Verma
Shafali Verma (born 28 January 2004) is an Indian cricketer who plays for the Indian women's national cricket team. In 2019, at the age of 15, she became the youngest cricketer to play in a Women's Twenty20 International (T20I) match for India. In June 2021, she became the youngest player, male or female, to represent India in all three formats of international cricket. On 8 October 2022, she became the youngest cricketer to complete 1,000 runs in T20 Internationals. Under her captaincy, India won the 2023 Under-19 Women's T20 World Cup. She was named as Player of the Match in the finals of the 2025 Women's Cricket World Cup.
Verma was born in Rohtak, Haryana, to father Sanjeev Verma and mother Parveen Bala. She has an older brother, Sahil, and a younger sister, Nancy (or Nensi). All three of them play cricket. Her father, "[a] die-hard cricket fan" who was unable to pursue cricket as a profession due to family pressure, is the proprietor of a small jewellery shop.
Verma began playing cricket at the age of eight. Her brother, a leg spinner, and her father would take her to a local ground to practise in the nets. In 2019, she told Hindustan Times:
"Both would bowl for long hours and I would hit the ball hard. That’s where I learnt this rule – if the ball is there to be hit then it should be hit hard."
Verma's father is a fan of "cricketing god" Sachin Tendulkar, and often watched videos of Tendulkar's innings with Verma and her brother. Tendulkar also became Verma's idol.
In late 2013, Verma went, for the first time, to Chaudhary Bansi Lal Cricket Stadium in Lahli, a small town near Rohtak, with her father to see Mumbai playing a Ranji Trophy group fixture against Haryana. There, with Verma sitting on her father's shoulder, they watched Tendulkar featuring in his final domestic match; Verma cheered every time her idol scored.
At around that time, Verma's father took steps to enrol her in a cricket academy in Rohtak.
Initially, all of the Rohtak academies refused to admit Verma, because she was a girl. Eventually, on her father's instructions, she cut her hair short, and disguised herself as her brother. The two siblings looked alike and had similar hairstyles. Then, her father enrolled her, as a boy, in the Shree Ram Narain Cricket Academy.
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