20 Facts About Deepti Sharma

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Deepti Bhagwan Sharma was born on 24 August 1997 and is an Indian cricketer who plays for Bengal, Birmingham Phoenix and India.

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Deepti Sharma is an all-rounder who bats left-handed and bowls right-arm off break and is currently ranked 3rd in the top all-rounders in the ICC Cricket Rankings.

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Deepti Sharma is the current third highest individual scorer by a woman cricketer in ODIs.

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Deepti Sharma's father is a retired chief booking supervisor with the Indian Railways.

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Deepti Sharma developed interest in the game of cricket at an early age of 9.

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Deepti Sharma started off as a medium pacer but had to shift to slow off-spin bowling.

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Deepti Sharma kept delivering spectacular performance in state as well as A side matches.

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Deepti Sharma made her ODI International debut in 2014 against South Africa in Bengaluru.

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Deepti Sharma was involved in a world record opening partnership of 320 runs with Poonam Raut, with the former contributing 188 runs.

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Deepti Sharma was part of the Indian team to reach the final of the 2017 Women's Cricket World Cup where the team lost to England by nine runs.

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Deepti Sharma scored 216 runs from 8 matches at an average of 30.86 and picked up 12 wickets from 9 matches played with best bowling figures of 3 for 59 from 7.1 overs against Australia.

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Deepti Sharma was the top run scorer in the season scoring 312 runs at an average of 104 in 6 matches with an impressive strike rate of 65.13.

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Deepti Sharma picked up a total of 9 wickets with best figures of 3 for 26 against Vidarbha in Kolkata.

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Deepti Sharma has scored 313 runs from 6 matches and currently in the top run scorer of the season.

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Deepti Sharma already has 2 centuries and one half century against her name in the 6 matches that she has played and highest score being 106 not out against Baroda in Bengaluru.

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Deepti Sharma has taken 13 wickets with best figures of 4 for 12 against Kerala in Bengaluru.

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Deepti Sharma took only 5 wickets in the tournament with her best being 2 for 15 in 3 overs against Ireland.

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Deepti Sharma made her Test debut on 16 June 2021, for India against England.

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Deepti Sharma plays for Sydney Thunder in the 2021 WBBL.

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India all-rounder Deepti Sharma was sold to UP Warriorz for Rs 2.6 crore at the Women's Premier League Auction in Mumbai on 13 February 2023.