Asha Shobana Height, Age, Husband, Family, Biography & More 2024

Some Lesser Known Facts About Asha Shobana

• Asha Shobana is an Indian cricketer. She is an all-rounder and performed for the Royal Challengers Bangalore within the inaugural season of the Women’s Premier League.

• From an early age, she used to play gully cricket along with her brother and her cousins and was an ardent cricket fan.

• In an interview, she revealed that Sachin Tendulkar‘s innings towards Australia within the 1998 Coca-Cola Cup influenced her quite a bit.

• Initially, she was not conscious of the ladies’s cricket staff. She was a college pupil when she first noticed a girls’s cricket match on the Doordarshan channel; coincidentally her idol Neetu David was within the beginning eleven for India Women.

• Later, she got here throughout a newspaper commercial for the ladies’s district groups’ trials. She was confused about how her dad and mom’ response and requested assist from her Physical Training trainer to achieve the coaching floor.

• She was 12-and-a-half years previous at the moment and did properly within the trials; she was chosen for the Thiruvananthapuram district staff and shortly grew to become a key participant for the staff.

• While making an attempt out for the Thiruvananthapuram district staff, Asha was capable of impress the previous Kerala girls’s cricket staff captain, Shabina Jacob, who later grew to become her mentor. Shabina Jacob wished her within the state staff and labelled her because the “most promising youngster.”

• In 2003, she was a part of the Kerala girls’s staff that travelled to Chennai, Tamil Nadu for the Senior Games, nevertheless, she was not included within the taking part in eleven.
  

  Asha Shobana (proper) along with her teammate

• In 2005, she made her debut for the Kerala girls’s staff and shortly grew to become an everyday starter for the staff; she performed for them for ten years.

• She was 16 years previous when she made her debut for the South Zone girls’s cricket staff.
  

  Asha Shobana with the South Zone staff

• In 2008, she was chosen for the India Women’s U-19 camp.

• In 2010, she performed within the Senior Women’s T20 Challenger Trophy on the age of 19.
  

  Asha Shobana taking part in for India A

• She scored two fifties and took 10 wickets from 5 matches for the Kerala girls’s staff between 2011 and 2012.

• In 2011, she grew to become the main wicket-taker with 12 wickets from 4 matches within the inter-zone girls’s cricket event held at Ahmedabad.

• In an interview, former India girls’s captain Mithali Raj labelled her as a “gutsy cricketer.”
  

  Asha Shobana with Mithali Raj

• In January 2012, she was included within the 20-player probables checklist for the India Women’s tour of the West Indies.

• Asha was a second-year undergraduate pupil when she obtained a job on the Indian railways. She labored for the South Central Railway in Hyderabad, Telangana.
  

  Asha Shobana along with her teammates

• On 10 March 2012, she was a part of the Indian Board President’s Women XI staff that misplaced to the Australian girls’s nationwide staff on the Sardar Patel Stadium, Motera, Ahmedabad. She bowled three overs and took the wicket of Meg Lanning.

• She was a part of the Smriti Mandhana-led India A staff that gained the 2017-2018 Senior Women’s Challenger Trophy; she took three wickets from ten overs within the remaining towards India Green.

• In 2018, she was chosen for India A squad for the Australian girls’s tour of India. She scored 24 runs in two matches and took the catch of Alyssa Healy.

• In 2018, she was named the Player of the Tournament for her performances with the Chilaw Marians Cricket Club Women’s staff within the Sri Lanka Cricket Women’s Division One Tournament.
  

  Asha Shobana with the Player of the Tournament trophy

• In 2019, she achieved a four-wicket haul towards Himachal Pradesh girls’s staff within the 2019-2020 Women’s Senior T20 Trophy.

• In 2020, she made a four-wicket haul towards the Goa girls’s cricket staff.

• In October 2020, she introduced that she was launching her cricket model ‘AV Sports.’

• Asha was a part of the Railways staff that gained the Women’s Senior One-Day Trophy within the 2020-2021 season and the 2021–22 Women’s Senior T20 Trophy.
  

  Indian Railways staff celebrating their victory within the 2021–2022 Women’s Senior T20 Trophy remaining

• In 2022, she performed for the Puducherry girls’s cricket staff.

• In 2023, she was bought by Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) for the inaugural season of the Women’s Premier League (WPL).
  

  Asha Shobana celebrating Holi along with her RCB teammates

• On 5 March 2023, she grew to become the primary Kerala participant to characteristic within the inaugural Women’s Premier League (WPL). She bowled two overs at an financial system of 14.50.

• She typically shares photos of her pet canine, Dexter, (Golden Retriever) on social media.
  

  Asha Shobana along with her canine

• In an interview, she revealed that her dream was to observe Arsenal F.C. taking part in at their house floor, Emirates stadium in London, England.

• Asha and Sanju Samson, who hails from Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, used to coach on the Medical College Ground in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.

• She typically posts photos of her drawing on social media.
  

  Asha Shobana’s sketch

• Shane Warne’s coach Terry Jenner coached a 15-year-old Asha on the MAC spin basis in Chennai, Tamil Nadu; after he noticed her bowling he then requested the others to bowl like her.

• She owns a Volkswagen Polo.
  

  Asha Shobana along with her automotive

• In an interview, she revealed that she got here from humble beginnings and lacked the monetary safety to fulfill the journey bills and cash for various coaching tools as a baby. She added that her dad and mom, who labored for meagre quantities, supported her dream of turning into a cricketer and tried their finest to offer the required cash; she additionally identified that many individuals together with her mentor, Shabina Jacob, helped her quite a bit along with her journey.

• In an interview, she revealed that throughout the trials for the ladies’s district staff, she used to do quick bowling as an alternative of spin bowling. She identified that the explanation behind this was she was undecided whether or not or not they would choose her in the event that they knew that she was a spin bowler.