Let’s look into Mahika Gaur profile. Mahika Gaur became the first women cricketer to represent two international teams as she had initially played for the UAE and now England. Mahika Gaur now recently playing for Manchester Originals Women in 2022 and 2023 Women Hundred competition. Mahika Gaur has maiden call up for English Women team against Srilanka Women tour in August, 2023 after her impressive performance in the Women Hundred competition 2023.
The left-arm seamer generates good pace and swing from a high release point. She had previously represented UAE in 19 T20Is and caught the eye with her height and hostile bowling.
Mahika Gaur mantra is simple: ‘Keep bowling fast, keep swinging it, and keep enjoying.’
Mahika Gaur love for cricket began when she was 6 years old and went to watch an IPL game in Jaipur to watch Rajashtan Royals vs Delhi Daredevils with her family.
Mahika Gaur Date of Birth
Mahika Gaur date of birth is March 09, 2006
Mahika Gaur Birth Place
Mahika Gaur birth place is Reading, United Kingdom
Mahika Gaur Education
Mahika Gaur is doing A levels studying biology, psychology and maths. Mahika Gaur hopes to go to university and study management. Mahika Gaur currently studying at Sedbergh School England.
Mahika Gaur is continuing with her education. Mahika Gaur says juggling school and cricket has been difficult. “As much as I want to study, I don’t want to just always be studying when we’re in a new country [for cricket]. It’s good to go out. I am not too upset that I haven’t been studying that much. It is good in a way because I’m always busy either studying or playing cricket.
Mahika Gaur Religion
Mahika Gaur Ethnicity
Mahika Gaur follow Christian religion. Raised in the Christian tradition, she embraces its core principles of love, compassion, and faith.
Mahika Gaur Nationality
Mahika Gaur Nationality has dual nationality as Emirati and also of UK. Her father moved from India to UK for better future. Mahika Gaur was born there in the UK. Then family moved to UAE. Mahika Gaur was playing for UAE when officials from Lancashire County Cricket Club had set up a coaching clinic exhibition at the Dubai Expo fair, where Gaur’s school was on an excursion. When she stumbled upon the booth, Gaur grabbed one of the tennis balls on offer, ran into bowl, and immediately impressed the surprised Lancastrian delegation. Mahika Gaur was so lucky she already had UK passport. Hence a new golden era of bright future which is dream of every girls was waiting for her.
Mahika Gaur Family
Mahika Gaur parents are from Indian Origin and roots from Rajhistan. First migrated to UK and then move to UAE.
Is Mahika Gaur Indian?
Mahika Gaur was born in England and have lived in India for 6 years, after that her family moved to Dubai. Hence Mahika Gaur has an Indian origin from her father side.
Mahika Gaur Parents
Mahika Gaur parents played a huge part in enabling her to play international cricket first for UAE and then for England Women team by providing her all opportunities to be a cricket star of future. Mahika Gaur father was also once a left arm medium pacer and played for his university and is 6 feet and 4 inches tall.
Mahika Gaur Father and Mother Name
Mahika Gaur’s Parent’s names are Shame Gaur ( Father ) and Mrs. Gaur ( Mother ).
Mahika Gaur Current Age
Mahika Gaur current age is 17
Mahika Gaur Height
Mahika Gaur height is 6 feet and 3 Inches
Mahika Gaur height in centimeters– 188 cm
Mahika Gaur height in meters– 1.88 m
Mahika Gaur Batting Style
Mahika Gaur is Right-hand bat
Mahika Gaur Bowling Style
Mahika Gaur is Left Arm Medium
Mahika Gaur Current Teams
Manchester Originals Women, United Arab Emirates Women, United Arab Emirates Women U-19, North West Thunder and Cumbria.
Mahika Gaur Favorite and Idol
“One of the players I looked up to was Dhoni,” she said. “He is the CSK captain, so I am a big CSK fan. We would watch all his finishes. My first ever cricket jersey was a picture of Dhoni and on the back it said ‘Mahi 7’ because he’s Mahi and I am Mahi as well.
Mahika Gaur considers former Indian team captain MS Dhoni and Australian fast bowler Mitchell Starc as her idols. Mahika Gaur also wants to finish matches for her team like Mahi.
“I think it’s why I started liking cricket, because he was making the team win from impossible situations. When I was younger, I would also dream of finishing matches like he did.”
“I think it’s why I started liking cricket, because he was making the team win from impossible situations. When I was younger, I would also dream of finishing matches like he did.”
‘Along the way, I’ve found many people I’ve looked up to. I’ve tried to take parts of their game into my game. Mitchell Starc: I just love his action and pace and everything! More recently, in the women’s game, Shabnim Ismail.’
Mahika Gaur Early Cricketing Days
As a young child, Gaur used to play cricket in parks and gardens with her father. When she was seven years old, her family went on a trip to India, where she watched her first IPL game between Rajasthan and Delhi. Young Mahika was very excited and his love for Cricket sports was born in her heart.
When her family returned to the UK, her father enrolled her in a club team as the left-armer started watching more and more cricket, and grew to idolize aggressive fast bowlers.
When she was 8 years old, the Gaur family moved to Dubai, where they enrolled their daughter at the world-renowned ICC Academy, where she had the opportunity to train with players from the UAE senior team.
As the UAE began to open up to tourists for the first time since the pandemic, officials from Lancashire County Cricket Club had set up a coaching clinic exhibition at the Dubai Expo fair, where Gaur’s school was on an excursion. When she stumbled upon the booth, Gaur grabbed one of the tennis balls on offer, ran into bowl, and immediately impressed the surprised Lancastrian delegation.
When they called the school to get in touch with her parents, they found out that Mahika was a UK passport holder, which meant she could play in England as a local player. After announcing a joint Lancashire Men’s and Thunder Women’s pre-season tour of the UAE in March 2022, which would feature five T20s between the UAE and the Thunder, club officials knew that they’d be getting another look at the talented Gaur. Yet, they were already convinced of her abilities. As a result, Gaur was invited to train with the Thunder in the UK during the 2022 English summer.
Gaur’s dream of becoming a professional cricketer was becoming brighter and brighter by the day.
Mahika Gaur Career with United Arab Emirates
She played for the United Arab Emirates between 2019 and 2022, making her Twenty20 International debut against Indonesia at the age of 12.
Mahika Gaur got bid in Inaugural Women’s Premier League 2023-24
Mahika Gaur narrowly missed out being part of the inaugural Women’s Premier League in March in India. Gujarat Giants put in a late bid for her at the auction but they had already exhausted their overseas quota. Had she been picked, she might have played as the fifth overseas player in the XI, since she was from an Associate side. Still, she was happy a team had bid for her.
Mahika Gaur picked by Manchester Originals Women for the Hundred 2023
She was a non-playing reserve in the Manchester Originals squad for the Hundred 2022, and subsequently left Dubai on a sports scholarship to attend school in the northwest of the UK.
Mahika Gaur, unsurpsrisingly, is chuffed to be sharing the dressing room with the likes of Sophie Ecclestone, Deandra Dottin and Wolvaardt. Mahika Gaur is bowling the bowling for the Manchester Originals in the Hundred 2023.
Mahika Gaur Stats for Manchester Originals Women in the Hundred 2023
Mahika Gaur took 4 wickets with 6 matches with an economy of 6.15 and strike rate of 30.75.
Mahika Gaur Salary for Manchester Originals Women 2023
Maihka Gaur is paid £7,500 by Manchester Originals Women for the Hundred 2023.
Mahika Gaur Stats in WT20
In 19 matches, Gaur took 9 wickets with an economy of 5.15 with strike rate of 39.3. His best bowlinng figure is 3/21.
Mahika Gaur Maiden Selection for England Women
Seventeen years old Mahika Gaur has been called up for the Sri Lanka ODI and IT20 series. Team management was impressed when saw her in action for the Machester Originals in the Hundred recently. Mahika has a beautifully fluid action for a quick bowler and not many women batsman are used to seeing the ball being delivered from that height.
Mahika Gaur, the UAE women’s international, has been selected for England’s white-ball squads for the ODI and T20I series against Sri Lanka in Aug, 2023.
Gaur, 17, earned her call-up after a series of good performances this summer, most recently for Manchester Originals in her maiden season of the Women’s Hundred.
England hand maiden call-up to Mahika in ODIs
England-borm Gaur, 17, has previously played 19 T20Is for UAE, the last of which was during the Women’s Asia Cup in Bangladesh last October. She also represented UAE in the inaugural women’s U-19 World Cup, held in South Africa earlier this year. The tall, lanky pacer is currently plying her trade for Manchester Originals at the ongoing 2023 edition of The Hundred.
“Mahika (Gaur) is a very exciting talent,” head coach Jon Lewis said. “Left-arm swing bowlers of over six-foot tall are unique in women’s cricket. Mahika has shown consistently this summer that she is a threat with the new ball and we are excited to see how she performs at international level.
Mahika Gaur Debut Performance in her 1st ODI Match Against Sri Lanka Sep 09,2023
Mahika Gaur was fast and furious in her 1st ODI match. Mahika Gaur ended up with 3 wickets in her spell of 6.2 overs and given only 26 runs with economy of 4.10. Mahika Gaur was unable to complete her quota of 10 overs as Sri Lanka Women team bowled out for 106 runs. Mahika Gaur took the top order wickets of Athapaththu, Anushka Sanjeewani and Prabodhani. Surprsingly in all wickets she bowled the opponent batters. Srilankan Batting 70% depends on her captain batter Athapaththu and she bowled her out in the power play.
Mahika Gaur Jersey Number for England
Mahika Gaur Jersey Number is 68.
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