Anuradha Doddaballapur

Anuradha Doddaballapur (born 10 September 1986) is a German-Indian cardiovascular scientist and cricketer who also currently serves as the captain of the Germany women's national cricket team.[1][2] She is currently a postdoctoral research scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research in Bad Nauheim.[3] In August 2020, she became the first female cricketer in the history of international cricket to take 4 wickets in 4 balls.[4]

Anuradha Doddaballapur
Personal information
Full nameAnuradha Doddaballapur
Born (1986-09-10) September 10, 1986
Davanagere, Karnataka, India
BattingRight-handed
BowlingRight-arm medium
International information
National side
T20I debut (cap 15)4 February 2020 v Oman
Last T20I15 August 2020 v Austria
Career statistics
Competition WT20I
Matches 9
Runs scored 123
Batting average 30.75
100s/50s 0/0
Top score 40*
Balls bowled 132
Wickets 9
Bowling average 10.33
5 wickets in innings 1
10 wickets in match –
Best bowling 5/1
Catches/stumpings 6/-
Source: Cricinfo, 2 October 2020

Biography

Anuradha Doddaballapur is a native of Basavanagudi, Bengaluru in the state of Karnataka.[5] She was inspired to take up the sport of cricket during her childhood by a school mate and also due to the interest in the sport in her family. She currently lives in Frankfurt, Germany.

Career

Early career

She joined the training group conducted by Karnataka women's players association at the age of 12 for the 1988–99 season after being suggested by her batch mate. She then joined the Karnataka Institute of Cricket and was chosen in Karnataka's U16 squad. She also represented Karnataka at U19 level before cementing her place with the Karnataka senior women's team and played for nearly a decade.[6]

She obtained her Bachelor of Engineering degree in Biotechnology from the New Horizon College, Bengaluru. After obtaining her bachelor's degree, she moved to UK in 2008 in order to pursue her master's degree in Medical Genetics at the Newcastle University.[5][7] She also faced dilemma situation as she was caught in between cricket and higher studies.[8]

Anuradha also started playing cricket for clubs and counties in England while being committed to higher education. She also featured in few seasons for the Northumberland women's county side, South North Cricket Club as well as Newcastle University Team. After completing her master's degree in UK, she migrated to Germany in 2011 to pursue PhD in Cardiovascular Biology at the Goethe University in Frankfurt. After settling in Frankfurt, she searched for a suitable cricket club in the city to pursue her cricketing career and joined the Frankfurt Cricket Club which was the only notable cricket club in the city. She had to join the FCC's men's cricket team due to the unavailability of women's team. She also had a brief stint for the Cologne women's team in German Women's Bundesliga from 2013 to 2015. She founded the Frankfurt Women's Cricket team at FCC in 2015 and has been the coach of the team since inception. She is an ECB Level 2 qualified coach. [6]

National career

She also received her maiden call-up to the Germany national team training camp in 2013. In August 2013, she made her debut for Germany at a Women's T20 European tournament hosted by Jersey. Anuradha has been a consistent performer in the national squad since debut. She was appointed as the skipper of the national team in 2017.[6]

On 4 February 2020, she made her WT20I debut against Oman in the first match of the bilateral series.[9] On 14 August 2020, in the fourth match of the bilateral series against Austria at the Seebarn Cricket Ground, she set the world record in WT20I cricket by becoming the first international woman cricketer to take 4 wickets in 4 successive deliveries.[10][11] She became only the third overall bowler either male or female after Lasith Malinga and Rashid Khan to achieve the feat. She took the nineteenth overall hat-trick in WT20Is, becoming the second German to do so after Anne Bierwisch, and also took her first five-wicket haul in WT20Is.[12] Anuradha eventually ended up with a career best bowling figures of 5/1 which is also the career best bowling for by a bowler for Germany in WT20I cricket and best figures for a captain (male or female) in T20I cricket.[13][14]

See also

References
  1. "Anuradha-Doddaballapur". Deutscher Cricket Bund (in German). Retrieved 2019-05-02.
  2. "Frauen-Nationalmannschaft auf England-Tour". Deutscher Cricket Bund (in German). 2018-07-04. Retrieved 2019-05-02.
  3. "This Bengaluru doctor leads German cricket team". Deccan Herald. 2020-08-19. Retrieved 2020-09-16.
  4. Sportstar, Team. "Former KSCA cricketer becomes first woman to take four wickets in four balls in T20Is". Sportstar. Retrieved 2020-09-16.
  5. "Basavanagudi to Bad Nauheim: Anuradha Doddaballapur's journey to new world record". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 2020-09-16.
  6. "Meet Anuradha Doddaballapur, the scientist who leads the German women's team". www.espncricinfo.com. Retrieved 2020-09-16.
  7. "A scientist who took four wickets in four balls in a T20I – The story of Anuradha Doddaballapur". DNA India. 2020-09-01. Retrieved 2020-09-16.
  8. "Meet Anuradha Doddaballapur: Cardiovascular scientist, holder of cricket records too". Hindustan Times. 2020-08-30. Retrieved 2020-09-16.
  9. "Full Scorecard of Germany Women vs Oman Women 1st T20I 2020 - Score Report | ESPNcricinfo.com". www.espncricinfo.com. Retrieved 2020-09-16.
  10. "Record-breaking Germany complete whitewash of Austria". www.icc-cricket.com. Retrieved 2020-09-16.
  11. "Anuradha Doddaballapur becomes first bowler to take four wickets from four consecutive deliveries in women's T20I". CricketNext (News18). 14 August 2020. Retrieved 14 August 2020.
  12. "The German women's team are enjoying new-found fame after breaking several T20I records". www.espncricinfo.com. Retrieved 2020-09-16.
  13. "Full Scorecard of Germany Women vs Austria Women 4th T20I 2020 - Score Report | ESPNcricinfo.com". www.espncricinfo.com. Retrieved 2020-09-16.
  14. "Records / Germany Women / Twenty20 Internationals / Best bowling figures". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 31 August 2019.
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