Jemimah Rodrigues
Indian cricketer
| Date of Birth | : | 05 September, 2000 (Age 25) |
| Place of Birth | : | Mumbai, India |
| Profession | : | Cricket Player |
| Nationality | : | Indian |
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Jemimah Jessica Rodrigues (জেমিমাহ রদ্রিগেজ) is an Indian cricketer. She is a middle-order batter who plays for the Indian women's national team. She was part of the Indian team that won the 2025 Women's Cricket World Cup, and the Women's Asia Cup in 2022. Representing India, she won a gold medal in the 2022 Asian Games and silver medal in the 2022 Commonwealth Games.
Jemimah represents Mumbai in domestic cricket and plays for the Delhi Capitals in the Women's Premier League. She plays for Brisbane Heat in the Australian Women's Big Bash League (WBBL). She has also played for Supernovas and Trailblazers in the Women's T20 Challenge, Yorkshire Diamonds in the Women's Cricket Super League, Melbourne Renegades and Melbourne Stars in the WBBL, Northern Superchargers in The Hundred, and Trinbago Knight Riders in the Women's Caribbean Premier League.
Early and personal life
Jemimah Jessica Rodrigues was born on 5 September 2000 to Ivan and Lavita Rodrigues in a Mangalorean Catholic family in Bhandup, a suburb in Mumbai. She has two brothers, Enoch and Eli. She studied at St. Joseph's Convent High School, Mumbai and later at Rizvi College of Arts, Science & Commerce.
Jemimah started playing cricket at the age of four. Her father was a junior cricket coach in her school and coached her during the early days. Her family moved to Bandra when the children were young to provide them better sports facilities, and she grew up bowling to her brothers. She also played basketball and football during her younger days. She represented the state team in field hockey before taking up professional cricket.
In 2024, Jemimah was subjected to cyberbullying on social media based on reports that her father used her membership at the Bombay Gymkhana for conducting religious gatherings. Although his actions did not directly involve her, the cyberbullying was targeted against her, and reportedly contributed to her anxiety and mental health concerns.
Early career
Jemimah played for Maharashtra in the junior categories. She made her debut for the under-19 debut side as a 13-year old. In 2017, she scored 178 runs off 142 balls against Gujarat in the under-19 category. She followed it up with a double-century in a 50-over match against Saurashtra. Her score of 202 runs came off 163 balls, and included 21 boundaries. She is only the second Indian woman after Smriti Mandhana to score a double century in a 50-over cricket match. In 2018, she was awarded the Jagmohan Dalmiya Award for the Best Domestic Junior Women's Cricketer by the Board of Control for Cricket in India.
International career
Jemimah was named in the Indian team for the Women's One-Day International (WODI) and Twenty20 International (WT20I) away series against South Africa in February 2018. She made her WT20I debut in the first match of the series on 13 February 2018, and scored 37 runs in an Indian win. She made her WODI debut in the home series against Australia on 12 March 2018. She scored her first half-century in WT20Is in the match against Australia in Mumbai on 26 March 2018. In the five match WT20I away series against Sri Lanka in September 2018, Rodrigues emerged as the top run getter with 191 runs.
In October 2018, Jemimah was named in India's squad for the 2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 tournament in the West Indies. Ahead of the tournament, she was named as one of the players to watch by the International Cricket Council (ICC). She scored 125 runs across five matches, and was named as the standout player in the Indian team by the ICC. After making only four WODI appearances in 2018, she was recalled to the Indian WODI team for the away series against New Zealand in January 2019. She made her maiden half-century in the first match she played in the series.
Franchise career
In 2018, Jemimah was announced as a part of the Trailblazers team in the newly formed Women's T20 Challenge. She was part of the side that lost to the Supernovas in the inaugural exhibition season in 2018. She was the top run-scorer with 123 runs for the Supernovas during the title winning run in the 2019 Women's T20 Challenge. She moved back to Trailblazers for the 2022 edition of the tournament.
In 2019, Jemimah signed for Yorkshire Diamonds in the English Women's Super League. In the summer of 2021, she competed in the inaugural Hundred competition for the Northern Superchargers. She posted the highest score of the competition (92 runs) against Welsh Fire. She was the second-highest run-scorer in the tournament with 249 runs at an average 41.50. In February 2022, she was retained by the Superchargers for the 2022 season. In the 2022 season, she played only two matches. In the 2023 season, she made 151 runs across ten matches in the team's run to the final.
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