Rumeli Dhar
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Rumeli Dhar (born December 9, 1983) is an India
n cricket
player. She is an all-rounder
in the Indian Women Cricket team. Dhar is very accurate in her medium pace and a pillar of Indian middle order batting. She has also been described by Cricinfo
as an "excellent fielder". Dhar has delivered several match-winning performances at the 2005 World Cup in South Africa which helped India to cement a place in the final. She performed well in the Women Twenty-20 World Cup in England in 2009 and helped India into the semi-final where they were defeated by New Zealand
. She played for Young India the following winter against Pakistan
. Dhar opened the bowling along with Jhulan Goswami
who is current Indian women's captain in the Quadrangular tournament in Chennai in February-March 2007 and recent Twenty-20 World Cup in England
.
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
n 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...
player. She is 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...
in the Indian Women Cricket team. Dhar is very accurate in her medium pace and a pillar of Indian middle order batting. She has also been described by Cricinfo
Cricinfo
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as an "excellent fielder". Dhar has delivered several match-winning performances at the 2005 World Cup in South Africa which helped India to cement a place in the final. She performed well in the Women Twenty-20 World Cup in England in 2009 and helped India into the semi-final where they were defeated by New Zealand
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
. She played for Young India the following winter against Pakistan
Pakistan
Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...
. Dhar opened the bowling along with Jhulan Goswami
Jhulan Goswami
Jhulan Goswami is an all round cricketer who plays for the India national women's cricket team, Bengal Women, East Zone Women as well as the Asia Women XI women's cricket team. She is currently the Indian Women's cricket team captain...
who is current Indian women's captain in the Quadrangular tournament in Chennai in February-March 2007 and recent Twenty-20 World Cup in England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
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