Natthakan Chantham ( ; ,
born 1 January 1996) is a Thai
cricket
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er, who plays for the
women's national cricket team as a right-handed
opening batter.
International career
She played for the
Thailand women's national cricket team in the
2017 Women's Cricket World Cup Qualifier in February 2017.
In June 2018, she was named in Thailand's squad for the
2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 Qualifier
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tournament.
She made her
Women's Twenty20 International (WT20I) debut for Thailand on 3 June 2018, in the 2018 Women's Twenty20 Asia Cup. In November 2018, she was named in the Women's Global Development Squad, to play fixtures against
Women's Big Bash League (WBBL) clubs.
In August 2019, she was named in Thailand's squad for the
2019 ICC Women's World Twenty20 Qualifier tournament in Scotland. In January 2020, she was named in Thailand's squad for the
2020 ICC Women's T20 World Cup
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in Australia. She was the leading run-scorer for Thailand in the tournament, with 103 runs in four matches. In Thailand's last match of the tournament, against Pakistan, she scored 56 to register her country’s first Women’s T20 World Cup half-century, and shared in an opening
partnership
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of 93 with
Nattaya Boochatham.
In November 2020, Chantham was nominated for the ICC Women's Associate Cricketer of the Decade award.
Chantham scored consecutive centuries (113 and 120) against the South Africa Emerging side in September 2021, during her team's
tour of Zimbabwe and South Africa. In November 2021, she was named in Thailand's team for the
2021 Women's Cricket World Cup Qualifier tournament in Zimbabwe. She played in Thailand's first match of the tournament, on 21 November 2021 against
Zimbabwe
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.
In October 2022, she played for Thailand in
Women's Twenty20 Asia Cup.
On 20 November 2022, she scored her maiden
Women's One Day International century, making 102 against the
Netherlands
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.
Chantham was part of the Thailand squad for the
2025 Women's Cricket World Cup Qualifier in Pakistan in April 2025.
Franchise career
In October 2020, she was selected to play for the
IPL Trailblazers in the
2020 Women's T20 Challenge league, becoming the first Thai cricketer to play in a professional Twenty20 franchise league. In the tournament final, she played a prominent role in the Trailblazers' victory, by diving spectacularly to save a boundary by
Jemimah Rodrigues, and then by taking a breakthrough catch in the covers to dismiss Rodrigues off the bowling of
Deepti Sharma.
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1996 births
Living people
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Natthakan Chantham
Cricketers at the 2010 Asian Games
Cricketers at the 2014 Asian Games
Cricketers at the 2022 Asian Games
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SEA Games medalists in cricket
Natthakan Chantham
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Competitors at the 2017 SEA Games
Competitors at the 2023 SEA Games
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IPL Trailblazers cricketers
IPL Velocity cricketers