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Born | Chiang Mai, [1] Thailand | 1 January 1996||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nickname | Jeans [2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Right-arm medium-fast | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Role | Batter | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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ODI debut (cap 3) | 20 November 2022 v Netherlands | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last ODI | 24 November 2022 v Netherlands | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
T20I debut (cap 3) | 3 June 2018 v Pakistan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last T20I | 13 October 2022 v India | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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2020 | Trailblazers | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2022 | Velocity | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Medal record
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Natthakan Chantham ( Thai: ณัฏฐกานต์ จันทร์ธรรม Thai pronunciation: [nát.tʰa.kāːn tɕān.tʰām]; na-ta-KAHN chan-TAHM, [3] [4] born 1 January 1996) is a Thai cricketer, who plays for the women's national cricket team as a right-handed opening batter. [5]
She played for the Thailand women's national cricket team in the 2017 Women's Cricket World Cup Qualifier in February 2017. [6]
In June 2018, she was named in Thailand's squad for the 2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 Qualifier tournament. [7] She made her Women's Twenty20 International (WT20I) debut for Thailand on 3 June 2018, in the 2018 Women's Twenty20 Asia Cup. [8] In November 2018, she was named in the Women's Global Development Squad, to play fixtures against Women's Big Bash League (WBBL) clubs. [9]
In August 2019, she was named in Thailand's squad for the 2019 ICC Women's World Twenty20 Qualifier tournament in Scotland. [10] In January 2020, she was named in Thailand's squad for the 2020 ICC Women's T20 World Cup in Australia. [11] She was the leading run-scorer for Thailand in the tournament, with 103 runs in four matches. [12] In Thailand's last match of the tournament, against Pakistan, she scored 56 to register her country’s first Women’s T20 World Cup half-century, and shared in an opening partnership of 93 with Nattaya Boochatham. [13] [14]
In November 2020, Chantham was nominated for the ICC Women's Associate Cricketer of the Decade award. [15]
Chantham scored consecutive centuries (113 and 120) against the South Africa Emerging side in September 2021, during her team's tour of Zimbabwe and South Africa. [16] In November 2021, she was named in Thailand's team for the 2021 Women's Cricket World Cup Qualifier tournament in Zimbabwe. [17] She played in Thailand's first match of the tournament, on 21 November 2021 against Zimbabwe. [18]
In October 2022, she played for Thailand in Women's Twenty20 Asia Cup.
In October 2020, she was selected to play for the IPL Trailblazers in the 2020 Women's T20 Challenge league, [19] becoming the first Thai cricketer to play in a professional Twenty20 franchise league. [20] In the tournament final, she played a prominent role in the Trailblazers' victory, by diving spectacularly to save a boundary by Jemimah Rodrigues, and then by taking a breakthrough catch in the covers to dismiss Rodrigues off the bowling of Deepti Sharma. [21]
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