Jemimah Jessica Rodrigues is an Indian cricketer. She is an all-rounder who plays for the Indian national women's cricket team and Mumbai women's cricket team. In addition, she also played for the Under-17 Maharashtra field hockey team. In June 2018, she was awarded the Jagmohan Dalmiya Award presented by cricketer MS Dhoni for Best Domestic Junior Women's Cricketer by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) at Jharkhand.
Jemimah Rodrigues was born on 5 September 2000)and brought up in Bhandup, Mumbai, India. She is a Mangalorean Catholic and a practicing Christian. At the age of four years, she started playing season cricket. Her family moved to Bandra West at a very young age to afford better sports facilities. Her father, Ivan was a junior coach in her school having coached her since the very beginning, he founded the girls’ cricket team at her school. Jemimah enjoyed playing both field hockey and cricket in her youth. Jemimah says that her father is her primary coach and her "Hero" and she owes all her success to him.
Rodrigues was selected for the Maharashtra under-17 and under-19 hockey teams. Her cricket U-19 debut was at 12-and-a-half, during the 2012–13 cricket season.
Rodrigues is the second woman after Smriti Mandhana to score a double century in a 50-over cricket match.
She was named in the Indian squad for the three-match ODI series against South Africa in February 2018. She made her Women's Twenty20 International cricket (WT20I) debut for India Women against South Africa Women on 13 February 2018. She made her Women's One Day International Cricket (WODI) debut for India Women against Australia Women on 12 March 2018.
In October 2018, looking at her striking achievements, Rodrigues was signed by a Sports Marketing firm Baseline Ventures, having to manage all her commercial interests.
In May 2021, she was named in India's Test squad for their one-off match against the England women's cricket team.
She also played for Melbourne Renegades in the 2021 WBBL. In August 2022, she won the silver medal with India's team at the inaugural women's cricket tournament at the Commonwealth Games held in Birmingham, England. Rodrigues made her Test debut against England in December 2023. (Collected from the public domain)
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