Shweta Sehrawati is an Indian cricketer who plays for the Indian women’s national under-19 cricket team. Shweta is right hand and right hand arm. In 2023, Shweta was the vice-captain of the Indian women’s national team that competed in the ICC Women’s Under-19 T20 World Cup.
Wiki/Biography
Shweta Sanjay Sehrawat was born on Thursday, 26 February 2004 (age 19 years; as of 2023) in Mahipalpur village, New Delhi. His zodiac sign is Pisces.
Shweta Sehrawat (left) as a child
He grew up in Vasant Kunj, New Delhi. Modern School, Barakhamba Road, New Delhi, Shweta passed class 12th exams 2022. As a child, Shweta accompanied her elder sister to a cricket coaching center. At the coaching center, Shweta would often pick up the bat and do some shadow practice. Recalling this, the father said in an interview:
I used to take my elder daughter (Swati) to Sonnet Cricket Club and Shweta would only accompany me. He insisted on playing with his sister, but I never paid much attention to it because he was so young. A few months later, we shifted Swati to the Cricket Academy in Vasant Kunj. It was a boys’ academy and the coach asked one of them to hit Shweta with a tennis ball. I still remember his first shot, straight to the ground. For a seven-year-old kid who played fearlessly with boys as young as 14, I was shocked. The next day I got him all the kits and his cricketing journey began.
At the age of 12, Shweta appeared in senior women’s trials in Delhi and was selected among the top 30.
Shweta Sehrawat during training
Physical appearance
Height (approx): 5′ 3″
Hair color: black
Eye Color: Black
family
parents and siblings
Shweta Sehrawat’s father, Sanjay Sehrawat, is a real estate agent. His mother is a housewife. He has an elder sister, Swati Sehrawat, who works in a private firm in New Delhi. His younger brother, Sam Sehrawat, is an animator.
Shweta Sehrawati with her parents and siblings
Career
At the age of 12, Shweta participated in the senior women’s Tests in Delhi and was selected among the top 30 cricketers. A few years later, he became part of the Delhi Under-16 team. Shweta scored her first Under-16 fifty, playing for Delhi against Haryana. Soon he started playing for the Delhi Under-19 team.
After that, she was named in the Indian Under-19 Women’s National Team. In the U-19 T20 Challenger Trophy held in November 2022, Shweta scored 163 runs in four innings at a strike rate of 111.64. Sehrawat was the highest run-scorer in the quadrilateral series involving West Indies, Sri Lanka and two teams from India. He scored 164 runs at a strike rate of 151.85. In 2022, she was part of the Women’s Under-19 team that registered a 5-0 win over New Zealand in the Domestic T20 Women’s Under-19 Cup; India captain Shweta scored 180 runs from 6 innings in the tournament from 129 shots. Later, he played for India at Under-19 level in various tournaments, scoring 474 runs in 17 innings.
Shweta Sehrawati during a cricket match with the Indian women’s under-19 team
In 2023, with the inclusion of two senior Indian players Shafali Verma and wicketkeeper Richa Ghosh in the Under-19 squad for the ICC Women’s Under-19 T20 World Cup, Shweta was made the vice-captain of the team by the BCCI. On 14 January 2023, during a World Cup match against South Africa in Beoni, Shweta scored an unbeaten 57-ball 92 to help her team win. The knock was decorated with 20 boundaries and Shweta became the player of the match.
Shweta Sehrawati during a cricket match
In February 2023, UP Warriorz bought him for Rs 40 lakh in the inaugural WPL auction.
Facts/Trivia
- In an interview, while talking about Shweta’s aggressive style, her father attributed it to her playing with boys for almost four years. The father also revealed that there were only two girls in his cricket academy.
- He was trained in cricket at the Karnail Singh Stadium by Deepti Dhyan.
- His jersey number is 11.
Shweta Sehrawat’s number 11 shirt
- Shweta used to bat at number 7 in her initial years. However, after he started scoring in age group cricket, he got an opportunity to play as an opening batsman.
- Shweta almost missed out on a chance to be a part of the Indian women’s team due to her Class 12 exams, and it was former cricketer and head of the National Cricket Academy (NCA) VVS Laxman who convinced her to attend the cricket camp. Apparently, his Class 12 exam dates clashed with the U-19 camp scheduled from May 15 to June 9, prompting Sehrawat to write a letter to National Cricket Academy (NCA) chief VVS Laxman stating that he would not be able to attend the camp. However, Laxman, who had heard a lot about Shweta Bhatti, insisted that she attend the camp for at least a few days. Shweta joined the camp on June 3, 2022 and played a few matches. He scored a century in one of the matches and was selected in the zonal team of the National Cricket Academy.
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