Madhuri, Rasanara picked for Women T20 World Cup
CUTTACK, Jul 17, 2012 (Team OCA):
The Board of Control for Cricket in India has selected Madhuri Meheta and Rasanara Parbin of Odisha among 30 probables for the ICC Women T20 World Cup to be played in Sri Lanka from September 26 to October 7. According to Odisha Cricket Association honorary secretary Asirbad Behera, the Odisha duo was chosen on the basis of its impressive performance in BCCI domestic tournaments during the 2011-12 season.
The two Odisha players, who hail from Bolangir, 21-year-old Madhuri is a right-hand opening bat and Rasanara is an right-arm off-break bowler.
The former became the first woman international cricketer of Odisha by representing the country in the last ODI and T20I series against West Indies earlier this year. She made her T20I debut at St Kitts on February 27 albeit without success. But on her ODI debut at the same venue on February 29, she made 23 off 59 balls.
In one-day matches she has scored 465 runs including 72 as her highest in 29 matches she has played so far for Odisha, East Zone and India Red. In domestic T20 cricket Madhuri has aggregated 265 runs in 16 matches.
Madhuri took to cricket in 2007 under the guidance of her father Pradeep Mehera and elder brother Bharat Meheta. She is a Plus Two second year arts student of Pataneswari Women’s College, Patnagarh.
Both Madhuri and Rasanara were spotted and groomed by their coach Arun Nayk. In her promising career, Roshnara has taken 20 wickets in 12 T20 matches with five for 15 as her best bowling performance. In one-day matches, she has scalped seven wickets in as many matches with two for 26 as her best.
Rasanara's career best bowling success came in an East Zone under-19 one-day match, which fetched her five wickets for three runs against Jharkhand at Dibrugarh in October 2010.
PROBABLES: Mithali Raj, Sulakshana Naik, Amita Sharma, Punam Raut (all Railways); Gouhar Sultana, M Shalini, Nidhi Torvi, Sunitha Anand (all Hyderabad); Ekta Bisht, Nishitha Pharasi, Gayatri Agarwal (all Uttar Pradesh); Jhulan Goswami, Archana Das, Annyesha Moitra (all Bengal); Anuja Patil, Smriti Mandana (both Maharashtra); Reema Malhotra, Jaya Sharma (both Delhi); Madhuri Mehta, Rasanara Parbin (both Orissa); Ritu Dhrub, Urmila Chatterjee (both Assam); Veda Krishnamurthy, Karuna Jain (both Karnataka); Harmanpreet Kaur (Punjab); N Niranjana (Tamil Nadu); Mona Meshram (Vidarbha); Shubhalaxmi Sharma (Jharkhand); S Asha (Kerala); Sushma Varma (Himachal Pradesh).
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PHOTO: Odisha duo Madhuri Mehera (Left) and Rasanara Parbin
