Rubina Chhetry is a Nepali cricketer who plays for the women's national cricket team as a right-arm medium pace bowler.
24 Facts About Rubina Chhetry
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Rubina Chhetry is the former captain of the team appointed in 2012, when she replaced Neri Thapa.
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Rubina Chhetry was raised by a single mother, and attended North Point School in Jhapa.
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When Rubina Chhetry was 12 years old, she first played cricket.
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Rubina Chhetry would sit close to the balcony of her home and watch them.
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Rubina Chhetry had difficulty in managing her cricket activities alongside her education and other commitments.
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Rubina Chhetry was inspired by her role models Rahul Dravid from India and Brett Lee from Australia.
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In 2016, Rubina Chhetry was recruited as Melbourne Renegades' Associate Rookie for the WBBL 2 tournament in Australia.
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In 2019, Rubina Chhetry was selected as the captain and marquee player of Bhairahawa Queens, which was to have been one of four teams competing in an NCL Women's T20 Cricket League tournament later that year.
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Rubina Chhetry led that team into the final, including by scoring 83 against Pokhara Paltan, 35* against Biratnagar Titans, 59* against Lalitpur Falcons, and finally, by taking four wickets for four, and then scoring 34*, in the eliminator against Biratnagar Titans.
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On 3 January 2021, Rubina Chhetry captained the Province No 1 team to victory by six runs in the final of the 2020 Prime Minister Cup Women's National Tournament, which attracted the largest number of attendees ever at a women's cricket match in Nepal.
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Rubina Chhetry was selected for the national team as a 15 year old, after playing in a selection competition in Kathmandu.
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Against that team, Rubina Chhetry took 6 wickets in 4 overs conceding only 9 runs, a performance that secured national selection for her.
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When Rubina Chhetry started her over, Singapore needed just two runs to win, with five wickets in hand.
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Rubina Chhetry began with a dot ball, and then took a hat-trick, followed by a wide and two more wickets.
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Rubina Chhetry has been the captain of the national team since 2012, when she replaced Neri Thapa.
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Rubina Chhetry first captained Nepal in the 2012 Women's Twenty20 Asia Cup.
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On 12 January 2019, Rubina Chhetry made her WT20I debut for, and captained, Nepal in the team's first ever WT20I, against China in the Thailand Women's T20 Smash tournament.
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Rubina Chhetry represented Nepal in the 2019 ICC Women's Qualifier Asia in Bangkok, Thailand.
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On 27 February 2019, in the final round of matches in the Asia qualifier, Rubina Chhetry took a hat-trick and was player of the match against Kuwait; it was Nepal's first hat-trick in a WT20I.
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Rubina Chhetry was one of six women contracted as grade "A" players.
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In October 2021, Rubina Chhetry was named as the captain of Nepal's side for the 2021 ICC Women's T20 World Cup Asia Qualifier tournament in the United Arab Emirates.
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In early May 2022, Rubina Chhetry played two matches for the Barmy Army team at the privately run 2022 FairBreak Invitational T20 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
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Rubina Chhetry has represented Nepal at the highest level in both table tennis and volleyball.