Parshavi Gaurav Chopra is an Indian cricketer who played for the Under-19 National Women’s Cricket Team. Parshavi is a leg-break bowling all-rounder hailing from Uttar Pradesh. Born on May 10th, 2006, this 16-year-old hails from a family of cricket enthusiasts.
Parshavi Gaurav Chopra Cricketer
Chopra’s grandfather, Parshuram Chopra, is a zonal-level-cricketer and her father and uncle played for different clubs of cricket. She began her athletic life with skating but was later shifted to cricket by her father. She had gathered a silver in U-14 Uttar Pradesh Skating Championships.
Early Life
Her passion for cricket began at the mere age of 10 and soon her parents realised her passion for the sport. Her parents enrolled her in a cricket academy to encourage her passion and polish her talent.
At the age of 12, she started playing for U16 Uttar Pradesh Team for the Chhattisgarh Tour and later for the Under-19 team. She was trained under the guidance of two academies- Youngstar Cricket Academy and Yuvraj Singh Center of Excellence. Her brother, Raghav Chopra, is also a part of UP’s Under-16 Team.
Chopra showed off her skills by taking 21 wickets marking her as the second-highest wicket-taker in her debut U-16 season of 2018-2019.
Star of the U-19 Team
In the Women’s Quadrangular U19 T20 Series of 2022, the 16-year-old bowler played for the India A team and won 7 championships. On November 27, 2022, she made her international debut with a five-game series against New Zealand and India swept the floor with a clean 5-0 win. She was then named to the Indian team for the ICC Women’s Under-19 Cricket World Cup.
The tournament was held in January 2023 in South Africa where the matches took place in the T20 format. In the U-19 T20 World Cup tournament, she gathered three strikes under her name against New Zealand, limiting the Kiwis’ runs to 107. She took four magnificent wickets and won the title of Player of the Match when India won by 7 wickets against Sri Lanka. On 29 January 2023, the Indian women’s cricket team became the champions of the historic maiden ICC U-19 Women’s Cricket World Cup after defeating England by seven wickets in the showdown at Senwes Park in Potchefstroom, South Africa. The bowler-all-rounder became the second-highest wicket-taker with 11 wickets.
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