Amanjot Kaur is an Indian cricketer who plays for the Indian women’s national cricket team. In domestic cricket, she represented Punjab and Chandigarh women’s cricket teams. In 2023, franchise team Mumbai Indians bought him for Rs. 50 lakh for the inauguration of the Women’s Premier League (WPL).
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Amanjot Bhupinder Kaur was born on Saturday, January 1, 2000 (age 23 years; as of 2023) and she hails from Mohali, Punjab, India. His zodiac sign is Capricorn. He studied at APJ Smart School. He was a sportsman since childhood and represented his school in school level sports events. Growing up, he started his cricketing journey with Khevi Cricket, playing with boys near his home in Phase V, Mohali. Recalling his childhood in an interview, he said:
I have loved sports since childhood. I used to play cricket with the boys in my colony. We had inter-colony matches and since then I had a competitive spirit to do well in sports. Apart from cricket, I played hockey, football and handball. I have represented my school, APJ Smart School, in this sport at the inter-school level.”
He began formal training in cricket at the age of 15, but soon gave it up to concentrate on his Class 10 exams. After his Class 10 exams, he joined the Cricket Academy in Sector 26, Chandigarh. Although slots for girls were full at this academy, Amanjot played in the nets for a while, after which coach Dipendar Chhabra directed her to start training under Nagesh Gupta, a BCCI-II level cricket coach, at Government Model High School, (GMSSS), Sector 32. She shifted to UTCA in 2019.
Amanjot Kaur with her cricket coach Nagesh Gupta
He completed his 11th and 12th grades in a government high school while representing his cricket team in school-level tournaments. Later, she enrolled in Guru Gobind Singh College for Women, Sector 26.
Physical appearance
Height (approx): 5′4″
Hair color: black
Eye Color: Black
family
He belongs to a Sikh family.
parents and siblings
His father, Bhupinder Singh, works as a carpenter in Balong workshop near Mohali. His mother’s name is Ranjit Kaur. He has two younger sisters, Kamaljot Kaur and Gurkirpal Singh.
From left to right, Kamaljot Kaur, Bhupinder Singh, Amanjot’s grandmother, Amanjot’s grandfather, Ranjeet Kaur and Gurkirpal Singh
wife
He is unmarried.
Career
Domestic
He has represented Punjab in the under-19 and under-23 categories. In 2018, she was selected to play for India in the Women’s U19 T20 Challenger Trophy. After playing for a few years in Punjab, he moved to Chandigarh to attend college. Chandigarh got admission from BCCI in 2019 after which it started playing in Chandigarh under Union Territory Cricket Association (UTCA). In 2019, she became the captain of Chandigarh women’s cricket team. She scored 370 runs for UTCA in the BCCI Senior Women’s One Day trophy in the 2019-2020 season before she scored over 450 runs in the BCCI U-23 One Day tournament. In 2020, he captained the Chandigarh Under-23 T20 Trophy and scored 184 runs and took 10 wickets in 7 matches for his team. In the Senior Women’s One Day Challenger Cup (2021), she represented the Indian Women’s D team. The tournament was won by India A, who defeated India D by three wickets in the final. In the 2022–23 Women’s Senior Interzonal T20, she was part of the North Zone squad.
Amanjot Kaur in North Zone Women’s T-Shirt
In the 2022–23 Women’s Senior T20 Challenger Trophy, she represented India A Women. The tournament was won by India D who defeated India A by 7 wickets in the final. In an attempt to play more competitive cricket, he returned to Punjab in 2022-23.
International
She made her international debut for India on 19 January 2023 against South Africa in the South Africa Women’s T20I Tri-Series 2022/23.
Amanjot Kaur in action in the South Africa Women’s T20I tri-series 2022-23
During the match, efforts from Amanjot Kaur and Deepti Sharma helped India post 44 runs in the last 4 overs and a total of 147 runs. India beat South Africa by 27 runs in the match and Amanjot’s unbeaten 41 earned him the Man of the Match award. Amanjot Kaur is the third Indian woman player to win the Man of the Match award on her T20I debut.
Amanjot Kaur received the Man of the Match award for her international debut against South Africa in the 2022-23 South Africa Women’s T20I tri-series.
However, South Africa won the series. The T20I Tri-Series was a warm-up series leading up to the 2023 ICC Women’s T20 World Cup. After that, she was named in the Indian squad for the 2023 ICC Women’s T20 World Cup in South Africa.
Women’s Premier League (WPL)
In 2023, he was bought by the franchise team Mumbai Indians for Rs. 50 lakh for the inauguration of the Women’s Premier League (WPL).
Facts/Trivia
- She idolizes Hardik Pandya.
- In an interview, he revealed that his carpenter father made his first bat by hand. One day, as a child, Amanjot Kaur was playing cricket with his neighborhood boys and the boys refused his bat. Giving the reason for this, they said that “he didn’t have a bat”. However, Amanjot explained that the real reason was different. A few days earlier he had hit the guy for boundaries. This wounded the boys. He spent the evening idle. His father, Bhupinder Singh, sensed that something was wrong. Later, when he confessed the events of that evening to his father, he immediately started the scooter, went to his workshop and returned late at night with a wooden stick that he had carved himself. He put the bat aside and left the house early for duty.
- On Amanjot’s 18th birthday, his father gave him a scooter so he could travel to the academy on his own.
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