Sharanya Sadarangani

Sharanya "Sharu" Sadarangani (born 3 July 1995) is an Indian-born cricketer who plays for the Germany women's national cricket team as a wicket-keeper-batter, and sometimes as a bowler. Previously, she has played internationally for Denmark, and in English county cricket for Essex. In 2020, she became the first female cricketer to play in the European Cricket Series.

Early life and career Sadarangani began playing cricket as a young child in her hometown of Bengaluru, India. A gifted child she also excelled creatively writing complex, novel-length stories while in elementary school. She also benefited from coaching at the Karnataka Institute of Cricket (KIOC), and played several times for the U-16 and U-19 Karnataka women's cricket teams, including a few matches under the stewardship of later Indian women's team cricketer Veda Krishnamurthy. Two months later, in August 2017, she played for Denmark as a wicket-keeper-batter, in a European Women's T20 tournament in Antwerp, Belgium.

On 8 July 2021, Sadarangani bowled for the first time in a WT20I, in the first match of another bilateral series, between Germany and France at the Bayer Uerdingen Cricket Ground, Krefeld. She also recorded her team's best bowling figures of 2 wickets for 10 runs. In the fifth and final match of that series, played on 10 July 2021, she was even more successful as a bowler, with figures of 2 for 6.

Personal life Sadarangani worked in Germany as an English teacher for three years and is now doing public relations work for the national association. She met her husband Finn after moving to Germany; they live in Sasel, a suburb of Hamburg.