Richa Ghosh

Richa Ghosh has made a name for herself as one of the most explosive batters in the women's game - a finisher who also keeps wicket. As a four-year-old, Ghosh used to accompany her father to club matches. Not long after that, she joined the club he played for. Siliguri district in West Bengal did not have a girls' team then, and Ghosh honed her skills playing with the boys, where she did not shy away from mixing it with the club's fast bowlers. Ghosh was a more than handy seam bowler in her formative years. At 14, she made her debut for Bengal's senior women's team and developed into one of their frontline batters. There were more established wicketkeepers around in Bengal's cricket circuit, and it was not until she became an India regular that she developed as a wicketkeeper for the state team.

When only 16, Ghosh was the only uncapped player in India's squad for the T20 World Cup 2020. A couple of useful knocks in the T20 Challenger Trophy following a stellar domestic season helped her move up the ladder.

Despite having played a senior T20 World Cup and an ODI World Cup by then, Ghosh was part of the first ever Under-19 women's T20 World Cup in 2023. Later that year, Royal Challengers Bengaluru picked her at the WPL auction for the first season of that tournament, and she played a starring role to win them their first title in WPL 2024, contributing 257 runs and 13 wicketkeeping dismissals. Ghosh has also played for Hobart Hurricanes in the WBBL and for London Spirit and Birmingham Phoenix in the Women's Hundred.

Her Test career got off to a fine start when she made a fifty in the home win against Australia in 2023 and followed that up with 86 against South Africa the following year. In the 2025 World Cup, she got stuck into South Africa again, with 94 in the league game against them, and 34 off 24 in the final to take India to 298.