India’s Kranti Goud grew to become the fifth Indian pacer — and the youngest — to choose up a six-wicket haul in WODIs after registering figures of 6/52 in opposition to England of their third WODI on the Riverside Stadium on Tuesday.
Kranti additionally grew to become solely the second Indian to realize the feat in opposition to England after Jhulan Goswami (2005) and the third Indian to choose six wickets in an ODI match, alongside Mamatha Maben and Jhulan.
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Hailing from a small village referred to as Ghaura within the Chhatarpur district of the Sagar Division, a younger Kranti grew up watching boys play tennis-ball cricket on the bottom reverse their home. She wasn’t within the video games the ladies have been enjoying; she was solely glued to the cricket.
For a very long time, Goud didn’t know spinners existed in cricket. “In tennis-ball cricket, I used to see that the bhaiyas would simply bowl quick. That’s why I took to tempo bowling,” Kranti informed Sportstarin an unique interview in the course of the 2025 version of the Girls’s Premier League — her maiden WPL marketing campaign, the place she performed for the UP Warriorz.
The 21-year-old would go on to complete the WPL 2025 marketing campaign with six wickets in eight matches.
Kranti made her WODI debut within the closing of the Tri-Sequence on Might 11, 2025, in opposition to Sri Lanka. In Might 2025, she was named within the ODI and T20I squad for the sequence in opposition to England.