A fine bowler, originally from Maharashtra, Yadav is yet to make an ODI appearance but has emerged as a T20 specialist
Born: April 21, 2000
Role: Right-arm bat, slow left-arm orthodox
The 19-year-old left-arm spinner became the first player from Gujarat’s domestic team to be called up to represent India’s women’s side when she received the news of her selection for the tour of South Africa in 2018.
A fine bowler, originally from Maharashtra, she is yet to make an ODI appearance but has emerged as a T20 specialist.
Among the teenager’s prize scalps, she has already dismissed Tammy Beaumont on three occasions, Chamari Atapattu twice and Suzie Bates, Sophie Devine, Nat Sciver, Meg Lanning, Heather Knight and Ellyse Perry.
She is mingling in some fine company.
It is some story for a youngster who only made her domestic debut in 2015.
Born prematurely and the daughter of a vegetable vendor, her rise has been some story.
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