Pooja Vastrakar


Pooja Vastrakar is an Indian cricketer. She plays for Madhya Pradesh and Central Zone. She has played 4 First-class, 25 List A cricket and 17 Women's Twenty20 matches. She made her debut in major domestic cricket in a Twenty20 match on 9 March 2013 against Odisha. She is professional cricketer who has played for Shahdol divisional cricket association.

Early life

Vastrakar started playing cricket near her colony along with the boys who used to play there. She later started going to the stadium and practiced net batting where the coach Ashutosh Shrivastava discovered her and started her formal training. She started off with batting and later on joining the Madhya Pradesh team, she switched to bowling. At the age of 15, she was a part of India Green Women Squad. In 2016, while Vastrakar was fielding during a senior women's domestic match, she twisted her knee. This led to her getting a surgery done for her anterior cruciate ligament tear which put her National call-up in jeopardy. Challenger Trophy, 2018 played a pivotal role in Vastrakar's selection for the South Africa tour.
Vastrakar's father is a retired employee of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited. Her mother died when she was ten years old. She has four sisters and two brothers and is the youngest of the seven siblings.

International career

She made her Women's One Day International cricket debut for India Women against South Africa Women on 10 February 2018. She made her Women's Twenty20 International cricket debut for India Women against South Africa Women on 13 February 2018.
In October 2018, she was named in India's squad for the 2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 tournament in the West Indies. However, she suffered an injury during a warm-up match, and was later ruled out of the tournament. In January 2020, she was named in India's squad for the 2020 ICC Women's T20 World Cup in Australia.