Ayasha Rahman Shukhtara Boishakhi () (born 2 February 1994) is a Bangladeshi
cricket
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er who plays for the
Bangladesh cricket team
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. She plays as a right-handed
batter and right-arm
off break
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bowler. Rahman was born in
Khulna
Khulna (, ) is the third-largest city in Bangladesh, after Dhaka and Chittagong. It is the administrative centre of the Khulna District and the Khulna Division. It is the divisional centre of 10 districts of the division. Khulna is also the seco ...
,
Bangladesh
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.
Career
Rahman was a member of the team that won a silver medal in cricket against the
China national women's cricket team at the
2010 Asian Games
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in
Guangzhou
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,
China
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.
Rahman made her ODI debut against
Pakistan
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on 23 August 2012. Rahman made her T20I debut against
India
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on 5 April 2013. In June 2018, she was part of Bangladesh's squad that won their first ever
Women's Asia Cup title, winning the
2018 Women's Twenty20 Asia Cup tournament.
Later the same month, she was named in Bangladesh's squad for the
2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 Qualifier
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tournament.
She was the leading run-scorer for Bangladesh in the tournament, with 89 runs in five matches. Following the conclusion of the tournament, she was named as the rising star of Bangladesh's squad by the
International Cricket Council
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(ICC).
In October 2018, she was named in Bangladesh's squad for the
2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20
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tournament in the West Indies. She was the leading run-scorer for Bangladesh in the tournament, with 59 runs in four matches.
In August 2019, she was named in Bangladesh's squad for the
2019 ICC Women's World Twenty20 Qualifier tournament in Scotland. In November 2019, she was named in Bangladesh's squad for the
cricket tournament at the
2019 South Asian Games. The Bangladesh team beat Sri Lanka by two runs in the final to win the gold medal. In January 2020, she was named in Bangladesh's squad for the
2020 ICC Women's T20 World Cup
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in Australia.
References
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1994 births
Living people
Cricketers from Khulna
Bangladeshi women cricketers
Bangladesh women One Day International cricketers
Bangladesh women Twenty20 International cricketers
Khulna Division women cricketers
Cricketers at the 2010 Asian Games
Asian Games medalists in cricket
Cricketers at the 2014 Asian Games
Asian Games silver medalists for Bangladesh
Medalists at the 2010 Asian Games
Medalists at the 2014 Asian Games
South Asian Games gold medalists for Bangladesh
South Asian Games medalists in cricket
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