Purnima Rau, is an Indian ex-cricketer

Cricketer

A cricketer is a person who plays the sport of cricket. Official and long-established cricket publications prefer the traditional word "cricketer" over the rarely used term "cricket player"....

. She played Women's Test cricket

Women's Test cricket

Women's Test cricket is the longest format of women's cricket and is the gender equivalent to men's Test cricket. Matches comprise four-innings and are held over a maximum of four days between two of the leading cricketing nations...

 (5 matches between 1993 and 1995) and ODI cricket for India

Indian women's cricket team

The Indian women's cricket team played their first Test match in 1976/1977, when they drew with the West Indies in a six-match series. They performed better than expected in the last Women's Cricket World Cup, reaching the finals but then losing to Australia. In 2005 they won their second Women's...

 (33 matches between 1993 and 2000). She captained Air India Women's cricket team in Indian domestic women's cricket. She captained the Indian team in 3 Test matches and 8 ODI matches.

An all-rounder

All-rounder

An all-rounder is a cricketer who regularly performs well at both batting and bowling. Although all bowlers must bat and quite a few batsmen do bowl occasionally, most players are skilled in only one of the two disciplines and are considered specialists...

, she played most of her ODI innings in the middle order and bowled right arm offspin. Currently, she is a coach associated with development of youth and women's cricketers in Hyderabad.