Renuka Singh Thakur

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Renuka Singh Thakur is an Indian woman cricketer. She plays for the Himachal Pradesh womens cricket team. In the 2019-20 Senior Womens One Day League, she took 23 wickets of the opponent team and became the leading wicket-taker of the Indian cricket team. In 2022, Renuka Singh Thakur played for India in Womens Cricket World Cup in New Zealand.Renuka Singh Thakurs father died in 1999, and he worked in the Himachal Pradesh Irrigation and Public health department at Rohru. In a conversation with a media house, her mother, Sunita Thakur, stated that in 2000, she (Sunita) started working in the Himachal Pradesh Irrigation and Public health department as a class IV employee. She further added that when Renuka was a little child, she started showing interest in playing cricket at her village ground near the Kundi Nullah in Rohru. Sunita Thakur said, My husband wanted both his kids to play sport and see them doing the country proud. After he died due to an illness, it was tough phase for the family. But I never stopped my son and daughter to play any sport. While I used to work at Rohru, Ritika would spend her time playing cricket with her elder brother Vinod and his friends at the village ground. Sometimes, she would go to other villages to play cricket. .In 2009, Renuka Singh Thakur enrolled herself at Himachal Pradesh Cricket Associations womens residential academy in Dharmshala. Her uncle, Bhupender Singh Thakur, motivated her to play cricket professionally. Bhupendra Singh was then a physical education teacher at Government College in Shimla.Later, Renuka Singh Thakur played for the Himachal Pradesh Under 16 and Under 19 teams.In 2019, Renuka Singh Thakur was selected by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) for a womens one-day match. In the same year, she was chosen for Indias womens team for its Australia tour. Renuka Singh Thakur was also selected for the teams matches against Bangladesh, Thailand, and India B. In four matches, she took three wickets.In a conversation with a media house, her coach Pawan Sen stated that Renuka Singh Thakur took three wickets in a U-19 match against Karnataka; she played for Himachal Pradesh. Renuka Singh Thakur with her coaches.In the BCCI Senior Womens one-day trophy match, in March 2020, Renuka Singh Thakur took nine wickets against Australia. Renuka Singh Thakur posing with her Senior Womens One Day Trophy.Former Indian cricketer Zaheer Khan and Punjab cricketer Harpreet Dhillon are her cricket idols.In 2021, Renuka Singh Thakur joined the railways job, and in August 2021, she made her T20 debut in the Indian womens cricket team and played a cricket series against Australia.In 2021, when Renuka Singh Thakur was selected for the Indian cricket team for the T20I cricket series in Australia, she stated in a conversation with a media house that her father was a very big fan of cricket, and he named her elder brother after his favourite cricketer Vinod Kambli. Renuka Singh Thakur said, Its an emotional day for me and I cannot describe the feeling of being selected. My father loved cricket like anything and had named my elder brother Vinod after his favourite cricketer Vinod Kambli. Renuka Singh Thakur added that her father died when she was three years old, and her mother took the whole responsibility of the family. She said, Her father reportedly worked at Himanchal Pradesh Irrigation and Public Health department at Rohru before he died in 1999. After that Singhs mother Sunita became the breadwinner for the family. A childhood picture of Renuka Singh Thakur.