Personal information | |
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Born |
Bhandup, Mumbai |
September 5, 2000
Batting | Right-hand bat |
Bowling | Right-arm offbreak |
Role | Allrounder |
Source: ESPN cricinfo, 10 November 2017
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Jemimah Rodrigues (born September 5, 2000) is an Indian athlete. She is an allrounder on the Mumbai women's cricket team and is in the Under-17 Maharashtra hockey team.
She enjoyed playing both hockey and cricket as a youth. She is the daughter of a club cricketer. Her father Ivan was a junior coach in her school and she grew up bowling to her brothers.
She studied in St. Joseph's Convent High School, Mumbai and later in Rizvi College of Arts, Science & Commerce.
She also played football and basketball.
She was picked in both the under-17 and under-19 Maharashtra hockey teams. Her cricket U-19 debut was at the age of 12-and-a-half, during the 2012-13 cricket season. She was picked when only 13 for the under-19 state cricket team.
Rodrigues is the second woman after Smriti Mandhana to score a double century in a 50 over cricket match. She scored 202 in just 163 balls in Aurangabad against Saurashtra team in November 2017. This score included 21 boundaries. Just before this match, she also scored 178 off 142 balls against Gujarat team in the under-19 tournament.
She has been named in the Indian women’s squad for the three-match ODI series against South Africa to be played in February 2018.