Renuka Singh Thakur is an Indian cricketer who plays for the Himachal Pradesh women’s cricket team. He is a right-handed batsman and bowls right-handed at medium to fast pace. Renuka Singh Thakur is best known for taking 23 wickets in the 2019-20 Senior Women’s One Day League. On 7 October 2021, Renuka Singh Thakur made his T20 debut against the Australian cricket team. In 2022, she was included in the Indian team for the Women’s Cricket World Cup in New Zealand.
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Wiki/Biography
Renuka Singh Thakur was born on Thursday, February 1, 1996 (age 27 years; as of 2023) in Parsa village, Shimla district, Himachal Pradesh, India. His zodiac sign is Aquarius. In 2000, Renuka Singh Thakur completed her high school education from GSS School, Dharamshala, HP. Later he did his higher secondary education at JAV Senior High School, Kangra, HP. He then went to Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar to complete his graduation. Later, Renuka Singh Thakur completed her further education at Khalsa College in Amritsar (Punjab) and Government College in Dharamshala.
Physical appearance
Height (approx): 5′4″
Weight (approx): 50 kg
Hair color: black
Eye Color: Black
family
parents and siblings
Father’s name is Kehar Singh Thakur. He died in 1999. He was an employee of the Department of Irrigation and Public Health, Himachal Pradesh, Rohru. His mother’s name is Sunita Thakur, who is an employee of Himachal Pradesh Irrigation and Public Health Department.
Renuka Singh Thakur with her mother Sunita Thakur
She has an elder brother Vinod Thakur.
Renuka Singh Thakur with her brother Vinod Thakur
husband
He is not married.
Career
Renuka Singh Thakur joined the Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Women’s Residential Academy in 2009 at Dharmshala. His uncle, Bhupender Singh Thakur, was then a physical education teacher at Shimla Government College and he motivated him to play cricket. The Himachal Pradesh Under-16 and Under-19 teams were later introduced by Renuka Singh Thakur. She was then selected by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) for women’s one-day internationals in 2019. After that, she was selected in the Indian women’s national team for the tour of Australia. Later, he played tournaments against Bangladesh and Thailand where he took three wickets in four matches. After that, he took three wickets in an Under-19 match against Karnataka while playing for Himachal Pradesh.
Renuka Singh Thakur poses with her Senior Women’s One Day Trophy
Renuka Singh Thakur got an opportunity to serve Indian Railways in 2021 under sports quota. Renuka made his T20 debut against Australia in August 2021. In January 2022, at the Women’s Cricket World Cup in New Zealand, Renuka Singh Thakur played for the Indian cricket team and made her Women’s One Day International (WODI) debut. In February 2023, Royal Challengers Bangalore bought him for Rs 1.5 crore in the first WPL auction.
Facts/Trivia
- In her free time, Renuka Singh Thakur likes to travel to faraway places, cook, watch movies and play video games.
- In 1999, Renuka Singh Thakur’s father passed away and her mother, Sunita Thakur, started working in the Himachal Pradesh Irrigation and Public Health Department as a Class IV employee in 2000. In an interview with Media House, Sunita Thakur said that Renuka started getting interested in playing cricket when she was using Kuruh to play cricket. Sunita Thakur said,
My husband wanted both of his children to play sports and see them do their country proud. After he passed away due to illness, it was a difficult phase for the family. But I never stopped my son and daughter from playing any sport. While I was working in Rohru, Renuka used to spend time with her elder brother Vinod and his friends playing cricket in the village ground. Sometimes he went to other villages to play cricket.”
- Renuka Singh has a tattoo on her right arm.
Renuka Singh Thakur with a tattoo on her right arm
- According to Renuka Singh Thakur, her father was a huge fan of cricket and her father named her elder brother after his favorite cricketer, Vinod Kamble. Renuka Singh Thakur said,
It’s an emotional day for me and I can’t describe the feeling of being selected. My father loved cricket and named my elder brother Vinod after his favorite cricketer Vinod Kamble.
Renuka Singh Thakur added that after the death of his father, the responsibility of his family was taken by his mother, who took a government job instead of his father. Renuka Singh Thakur said,
His father worked in the Himanchal Pradesh Irrigation and Public Health Department in Rohu until he died in 1999. After that, Singh’s mother Sunita became the breadwinner of the family.
Renuka Singh Thakur’s childhood picture
- He received cricket coaching from Pawan Sen and Veena Pandey.
Renuka Singh Thakur with her coaches
- According to Renuka Singh Thakur, he follows the playing style of former Indian cricketers Zaheer Khan and Harpreet Dhillon.
- Renuka Singh Thakur regularly posts her pictures and videos on various social media platforms. More than 22 thousand people follow his Instagram account. He is still very active on his Facebook account.
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