India's Kashvee Gautam is sold to Gujarat Giants for Rs 2 crore and becomes the most expensive uncapped Indian player yet.
A fast bowling all-rounder from Chandigarh, Kashvee holds records in the women's circuit. In the women's domestic U19 competition, she recorded a hat-trick for Chandigarh against Arunachal Pradesh in a one-day match.
Kashvee, elder of two sisters, started playing cricket with boys in her neighborhood at the age of six at her aunt's insistence.
Later, when she was in her teens, the youngster made her debut on the Chandigarh junior and senior teams.
In 2020, she became the first Indian woman cricketer to claim all ten wickets in a match against Arunachal in the Women's U-19 One Day Tournament held in Kadapa, Andhra Pradesh.
Despite being only 20 years of age, Kashvee scalped 12 wickets in seven matches at an economy rate of 4.14 runs per over in the Women's Senior T20 Trophy 2023.
The BCCI named the 20-year-old in the India emerging U-23 team, which participated in the ACC Emerging Women's Asia Cup 2023 in Hong Kong in June of this year, making her the first female cricketer from the UT Cricket Association (UTCA) to be selected in an Indian women's cricket team.
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