Richa Ghosh is an Indian cricketer who made her debut for the Indian women’s cricket team at the age of 16 in February 2020. She is also known for scoring 52 runs off 26 balls, with her hundred being the fastest fifty by an Indian batsman in women’s one-day international cricket against New Zealand women in Queenstown.
Wikipedia/CV
Richa Manabendra Ghosh was born on Sunday, September 28, 2003 (19 years old; as of 2022) in Siliguri, West Bengal. Her zodiac sign is Libra. She attended school at Sister Margaret Nivedita English School in Siliguri. In February 2020, she made it to the national team for her impressive performance in the 2020 Challenger Cup. She joined the Bangladesh Women’s Under-19 team at the age of 11, after which she was selected for the Bangladesh senior team when she was only 12 years old. She was selected in the 15-member Indian squad for the 2020 ICC Women’s T20 World Cup.
appearance
Height (approximate): 5′ 5″
Eye color: Black
Hair color: Black
family
Parents and siblings
Richa Ghosh was born into a Bengali family. Her father, Manabendra Ghosh, was a club-level cricket player in his youth and she used to play with him. Later, he worked part-time as a cricket umpire in Bangladesh. It was her father who sparked Richa’s interest in the sport by taking her to the cricket field at a very young age. Richa’s father used to train her when she was a kid and she learnt his aggressive batting style. In 2016, Richa’s father had to shut down his business to be able to take care of his daughter’s cricket training. In an interview, he said:
I have to give her all my time. I can’t open a shop and then shut it while I’m travelling. It takes 12-13 hours to reach Kolkata. If she is in Kolkata for any tournament, I pack my bags quickly. She is a little girl and we can’t leave her alone.”
Her mother Swapna Ghosh is a housewife while her elder sister Shomasree Ghosh is a media science graduate.
An old photo of Richa Ghosh and her family at Vivekananda Setu near Kolkata
Profession
In 2018, Richa Ghosh made her T20 debut for her hometown team Bangladesh in the senior category. In the 2020 Women’s T20 Challenger Cup, she caught the attention of the national selectors and scored 98 runs in four matches, playing a major role in India B’s qualification to the final. Ghosh was subsequently selected in the 15-man Indian squad for the 2020 Women’s T20 International World Cup, but she did not get a chance to play in any matches. She eventually made her T20 International debut on 12 February 2020, at the age of 16, in the final match of the tri-nation Women’s T20 series in Australia. In 2022, she was part of the Indian Women’s squad for the 4th One-Day International against New Zealand Women in Queenstown, where she scored 52 runs off 26 balls, a century that is the fastest fifty by an Indian batsman in a Women’s One-Day International.
Harmanpreet Kaur presents the Indian team cap to Richa Ghosh
In February 2023, Royal Challengers Bangalore bought her for Rs 1.9 crore at the first WPL auction.
Record
- On September 21, 2021, in the Indian Women’s ODI match against the Australian Women’s team in Mackay, she partnered with J Goswami to take the highest score for the 8th wicket.
- She did not achieve anything in her cricket career.
- On October 10, 2021, in the T20 match between Indian Women and Australian Women in Kerala, she partnered with DB Sharma to take the highest score for the 7th wicket.
award
She won the Bangladesh Cricketer of the Year award in 2018.
West Bengal Sports Minister Aroop Biswas pays tribute to Richa Ghosh
Favorites
Facts/Trivia
- Richa is a right-handed batsman and right-arm medium-fast bowler. Her jersey number is 13. Her domestic team is West Bengal. Her coach is Rituparna Roy.
- Richa enjoys watching movies and listening to music in her free time.
- Her father spotted her extraordinary cricket talent at a very young age. When her hometown Siliguri did not have a women’s cricket team, Richa used to practice with the boys in school.
- Richa is not a regular bowler for the Bengal women’s team, but she has done well with medium-pace bowling and wicketkeeping in her state age-group matches. In some matches, she has been able to bat, bowl and even keep wicket.
- She is reportedly a level-headed player who loves the game. She knows how to stay calm in challenging situations; her father nurtured her with a confident mindset.
- West Bengal Sports Minister Aroop Biswas has congratulated Richa Ghosh on his inclusion in India’s 15-man squad for the World Cup.
- Richa Ghosh considers Sachin Tendulkar and MS Dhoni as her cricket idols. In an interview, she talked about MS Dhoni and said:
When I started watching the Indian team, I started following MS Dhoni because I was impressed by his batting power and effective wicketkeeping behind the wicket. He is my idol.”
- In an interview, she expressed her feelings after scoring 50 in the fourth One Day International cricket match between Indian Women and New Zealand Women in Queenstown and said;
It feels great because it’s my first fifty. Last time in Australia I only scored 44 but here I was able to keep going and hit a half-century. I’m really happy and my parents are happy too, they called to congratulate me after I was out.”
- In 2020, she donated Rs 1 lakh to the Bengal Chief Minister’s COVID-19 Relief Fund to help the community fight the pandemic. In an interview, she talked about this and said:
As everyone is fighting the COVID-19 pandemic and the Chief Minister has called on everyone to unite and fight the pandemic, I thought I should make a small contribution as a responsible citizen.”
- In 2021, Richa’s father was injured by some drunken men in Siliguri.
- She loves animals very much and often posts photos of them on social media.
Richa Ghosh poses with a kangaroo
- She often posts pictures of her workouts on social media.
Richa Ghosh practicing yoga
Categories: Biography
Source: HIS Education