Nilima Jogalekar is a former Indian women cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

er. She was the team wicket-keeper and a middle order batswomen. She represented Maharashtra in women's domestic cricket, making her international debut in the 1978 Women's Cricket World Cup

Women's Cricket World Cup

The ICC Women's Cricket World Cup is a Women's one-day international cricket competition. The first tournament was held in England in 1973, two years before the first men's ICC Cricket World Cup....

 as Nilima Barve (her maiden name)

Nilima Jogalekar played 6 Test matches

Test cricket

Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket. Test matches are played between national representative teams with "Test status", as determined by the International Cricket Council , with four innings played between two teams of 11 players over a period of up to a maximum five days...

 and 20 ODI matches spread over seven years and four international series. She played in the following series:

• 1978 Women's Cricket World Cup (1 ODI)
• 1982 Women's Cricket World Cup (12 ODIs)
• 1983/84 Australia Women in India (4 ODIs and 4 Test matches)
• 1984/85 New Zealand Women in India (3 ODIs and 2 Test matches)

Nilima Jogalekar captained India in one Test match (against New Zealand) when she stood in for Diana Edulji

Diana Edulji

Diana Fram Edulji is a former Indian women's Test cricketer. Born in Mumbai she was drawn to sports at an early age. She grew up playing cricket with a tennis ball in the railway colony where she lived. She then went on to play basketball and table tennis at the junior national level, before...