Jasia Akhtar to play for India Reds Jasia, hailing from Sho...

Jasia Akhtar to play for India Reds Jasia, hailing from Shopian district of Kashmir has been playing for Punjab from more than eight years now and has been doing well consistently. She was selected for the India Reds team on the basis of her performance during recently concluded senior women’s cricket tournament. In the tournament she played seven matches and scored 215 runs. Although she had two fifty plus scores to her credit but it was her strike rate that caught the eye of everyone. She scored her runs with strike rate of 113.15. Earlier last year Jasia had become second cricketer from J&K after Roopali Slathia of Jammu to be selected for the national camp. Even though She took part in the national camp but couldn’t make it to India team. However, this time Jasia is confident of making it to India team by doing well in the upcoming challenger trophy.

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