Mahika Gaur Height, Age, Family, Biography & More

Some Lesser Known Facts About Mahika Gaur

• Mahika Gaur is an English cricketer who plays as a bowling allrounder for the England cricket team. Apart from England, she has UAE in international cricket (2019-2022). She is a prodigy who made her T20I debut for UAE at the age of just 12 against Indonesia. She has also represented the teams Cumbria, North West Thunder, and Manchester Originals.

• Her family has roots in Rajasthan, India. ^[2]Hindustan Times

• Gaur first developed an interest in cricket at the age of six when she visited Jaipur with her family, where she watched an IPL match between Rajasthan Royals and Delhi Capitals. She talked about the same in an interview and said,
  

  I do not remember much of the match but when we got back to England I would try to bowl like them in the garden and I joined a club nearby.”

• At 8, Gaur moved from UK to Dubai, UAE, where she began her cricketing journey training at the International Cricket Council Academy.

• She grew up idolising Mitchell Starc and MS Dhoni.

• On January 12, 2019, when she was only 12 years old, she participated in a match against Thailand A.

• In her first two international matches, Mahika didn’t get the chance to bowl a single delivery. However, in her third match, she finally had the opportunity to bowl and managed to take one wicket.

• Gaur caught the attention of Thunder coaches during a masterclass session at Dubai Expo 2020, in which Warren Hegg was impressed by her pace and talent. Consequently, Gaur returned to the UK and took a full scholarship at Sedbergh School.

• Later, she represented the UAE in various tournaments, including the 2019 ICC Women’s Qualifier Asia, the 2021 ICC Women’s T20 World Cup Asia Qualifier, and the 2022 GCC Women’s Gulf Cup.

• She was also selected to play for the UAE in the women’s tour against Hong Kong in 2021-22.

• During the 2022 ICC Women’s Under-19 World Cup Asia qualifiers, Gaur delivered an outstanding performance by taking 5 wickets for just 2 runs in four overs, helping to bowl Nepal out for just eight runs in their second match in Malaysia. She was awarded the Player of the Match title.
  

  Mahika Gaur posing with her Player of the Match award after a match against Nepal in 2022 ICC Women’s Under-19 World Cup Asia qualifiers in which she claimed a five-wicket haul

  In the tournament, Mahika took four wickets, including a hat trick, in a match against Malaysia. She was again named the Player of the Match for her outstanding performance. UAE ended up winning the tournament, and Gaur was the second-best wicket-taker in the competition, with a total of 11 wickets and an average of 2.36 per wicket.

  

  UAE Women after winning 2022 ICC Women’s Under-19 World Cup Asia qualifiers

• At the 2022 Women’s Twenty20 Asia Cup, she stood out as the top wicket-taker for UAE, securing six wickets with an average of 19.83.

• In December 2022, Gaur was selected to be a part of the UAE’s team for the 2023 ICC Under-19 Women’s T20 World Cup, where she contributed 79 runs and two wickets to the team’s performance.

• Overall, she participated in 19 T20 international matches for the UAE.

• Later, she became the first female player to represent Sedbergh’s First XI.

• She plays for North West Thunder in English domestic women’s cricket. On 23 July 2022, in a game against the Northern Diamonds, she took 3 wickets for 25 runs for North West Thunder.

• Gaur played for Manchester Originals for the 2022 season of The Hundred. At the age of 16, Mahika Gaur became one of the youngest players ever to participate in The Hundred. English cricketer Davina Perrin, who joined Birmingham Phoenix in the 2022 season, became the competition’s youngest player at just 15 years old. In the 2021 season of The Hundred, 16-year-old Alice Capsey made quite an impact while playing for Oval Invincibles.

• She secured a spot on Thunder’s full team for the 2023 season.

• In the 2023 season, she made her senior debut for Thunder against Western Storm in Cardiff. She performed well, taking 3 wickets for 39 runs, but Thunder didn’t win the match.
  

  Mahika Gaur playing for North West Thunder

• In 2023, Gaur was picked for the England A team to play against Australia A.

• On 9 September 2023, she made her WODI debut for England against Sri Lanka at Riverside Ground in Chester-le-Street. England won the match by 7 wickets. Gaur took three wickets in the game, including the important wicket of Chamari Athapaththu. She won the title of Player of the Match award, finishing with figures of 6.2-0-26-3.
  

  Mahika Gaur during her ODI debut for England against Sri Lanka in 2023

• She represented Cumbria in the 2023 Women’s Twenty20 Cup.

• In the 2023 FairBreak Invitational T20 USA, she was a part of Team Spirit.

• In June 2023, it was revealed that Gaur had signed a part-time professional contract with Thunder, which lasted until the end of the 2024 season.

• In August 2023, she was named to the England squad to play against Sri Lanka.

• In an interview, she mentioned that her love for cricket comes from her father. He used to play cricket for his university, and he is 6 feet 4 inches tall. Interestingly, just like her, he was also a left-arm fast bowler.

• She is the third bowler of Indian origin to be chosen for the England women’s cricket team. The first bowler with Indian roots to play for England was Sonia Odedra, and the second was Isa Guha.