Shebani Bhaskar
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Evergreen Park, Illinois, U.S.
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Shebani Mandhakini Bhaskar | ||||||||||||||
| Born | October 7, 1994 Evergreen Park, Illinois, U.S. | ||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm leg break | ||||||||||||||
| Role | Wicket-keeper | ||||||||||||||
| International information | |||||||||||||||
| National side | |||||||||||||||
| T20I debut (cap 2) | 17 May 2019 v Canada | ||||||||||||||
| Last T20I | 25 October 2021 v Argentina | ||||||||||||||
| Domestic team information | |||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||
| 2008/09–2018/19 | Tamil Nadu | ||||||||||||||
| 2016/17 | Otago | ||||||||||||||
| 2018–2018/19 | Leeward Islands | ||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 10 November 2022 | |||||||||||||||
Shebani Mandhakini Bhaskar (born October 7, 1994) is an American cricketer who plays for the United States. She plays as a right-handed batter, wicket-keeper and occasional right-arm leg break bowler. She has appeared in 8 Twenty20 Internationals for the US. She previously played domestic cricket for Tamil Nadu, Otago and Leeward Islands.[1][2]
Bhaskar was born in Evergreen Park, Illinois, United States to a Tamil family. During her childhood, her family moved several times and they have lived in Hamburg, Dhaka, and Alexandria, Virginia.[3] Bhaskar, along with her family, moved to Kolkata in 2007 as her father, Bhaskar Rajah began working in the city. She was then selected to play for the West Bengali U16 cricket team at just the age of 11.[4] In 2008, she and her family returned to Chennai, their native place.[3]
She began playing cricket at the age of eleven and was also offered a chance to play for the Tamil Nadu cricket team. she has two sisters and her elder sister, Meenakshi Bhaskar is a rower. And her younger sister is Vijaishri Bhaskar[5][6]