Shantha Rangaswamy Biography - Birth date, Achievements, Career, Family, Awards

Shanta Rangaswamy was born on 1 January 1954 in Madras, Tamil Nadu. His father's name was CV Rangaswamy and mother's name was Rajalakshmi. And they have six sisters.

Shanta Rangaswamy is a right-handed batsman who played his first match against West Indies in Bengaluru on 03 October 1976. And scored 750 runs in her 16 Tests at an average of 32.6 with a century (108), the first century by an Indian female cricketer against New Zealand on 8 January 1977 in Carisbrook, Dunedin. He took 21 wickets with a right-arm medium pace at a bowling average of 31.61, including the best analysis of 4–42 against England. In 19 ODIs, she scored 287 runs at 15.1, and took 12 wickets at 29.41. She recorded her best batting and bowling performance in ODI cricket at the Women's Cricket World Cup in New Zealand in 1982, scoring only one-day half-centuries (out for 50) against New Zealand and 3–25 against the International XI.

She is the first Indian woman cricketer to score a century in a Test match for India (New Zealand at Dunedin). Shanta Rangaswamy has captained the Indian team in 12 Tests and 16 ODIs. Shanta Rangaswamy has scored 287 runs in ODIs, including one of his fifties. Shanta Rangaswamy, the first captain of the Indian women's cricket team was also included in the ad-hoc committee to interview various candidates for selection of the head coach of the women's cricket team along with legendary players like Kapil Dev, Anshuman Gaikwad. In October 2019, she became the first Indian woman cricketer to represent the Indian Cricketers Association and the BCCI Apex Council.

Rangaswamy won the Arjuna Award in 1976. She is the first recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award for Women of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI).