Panna Ghosh

Born in Rajshahi, Panna Ghosh is a tall seamer who likes hitting the deck. She first participated in an open cricket tournament in Dhaka in 2006, the same year when Bangladesh Cricket Board was trying to form a women’s team. Juggling between volleyball and cricket, she decided to opt for cricket as her full-time career after playing volleyball till the mid-2000s.

Panna has been with the Bangladesh Women’s squad since their first-ever international game in 2011 against Ireland, in which she made her debut, with her T20 debut following in 2012 against Sri Lanka. A natural bowling all-rounder, Panna went to Thailand to play in the 2007 Asian Games and was adjudged as the Player of the Tournament.

She currently holds the best T20 bowling figures for a Bangladesh woman and became only the second, behind Jahanara Alam, to take a five-wicket haul in T20s, claiming 5-16 against Ireland in the final of the 2018 T20 World Cup qualifiers, earning her the player of the match award. 

Having represented the Tigresses in every ICC tournament, Panna was the key figure behind her country’s success in the 2018 Women’s Asia Cup and 2019 South Asian Games. Backed up by the team management as the number one seamer in the current side, Panna’s consistent performance in ICC mega-events has earned her a permanent place in the limited-overs format for the Tigresses.

(As of April 2021)