Watch – 16-Year-Old Kashvee Gautam Bags A Ten-Wicket Haul In An Innings

The captain of Chandigarh women’s U-19 team Kashvee Gautam achieved the rare feat of taking all the ten wickets in a women’s U-19 domestic one-day match against Arunachal Pradesh in Kadapa on February 25 (Tuesday). She also registered a hattrick during her ten-wicket haul before top-scoring with 49 for her team, eventually leading her team to a 161-run victory. 

Kashvee finished with figures of 4.5-1-12-10, helping Chandigarh bowl out Arunachal for 25, with the innings lasting only 8.5 overs. Of her 10 wickets, six batters were dismissed lbw and the other four being bowled, with only one Arunachal batter getting into double figures. The hat-trick came in her second over – the third of the innings – reducing Arunachal to 9 for five.

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Meanwhile, in international cricket, only India’s Anil Kumble and England’s Jim Laker hold the record for taking all 10 wickets, both in Test cricket. Debasish Mohanty and Rex Singh are the other cricketers to have taken all 10 wickets, both achieving the feat in red-ball cricket. In women’s one-day international cricket, Pakistan’s Sajjida Shah has the best bowling figures of 8-5-4-7, which came against Japan in 2003.

Kashvee Gautam, who has bagged 63 wickets so far this season seemed excited after entering the record books. Kashvee also expressed that she can’t believe that she has scalped ten wickets in an innings. She wants to continue the excellent run and make her dream of playing for India a reality. 

“I still can’t believe it has happened. All I wanted was to bowl in the right area and take wickets. Bowling at the same spot consistently helped me take all these wickets. The pitch was helping seam bowlers a bit and the ball was swinging. It was only when my team-mates talked about 10 wickets after my eighth that I thought about the feat,” Kashvee told The Indian Express.

Here is the video of all her 10 wickets: