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India’s Kranti Goud became the fifth Indian pacer — and the youngest — to pick up a six-wicket haul in WODIs after registering figures of 6/52 against England in their third WODI at the Riverside Stadium on Tuesday.
Kranti also became only the second Indian to achieve the feat against England after Jhulan Goswami (2005) and the third Indian to pick six wickets in an ODI match, alongside Mamatha Maben and Jhulan.
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Hailing from a small village called Ghaura in the Chhatarpur district of the Sagar Division, a young Kranti grew up watching boys play tennis-ball cricket on the ground opposite their house. She wasn’t interested in the games the girls were playing; she was only glued to the cricket.
For a long time, Goud didn’t know spinners existed in cricket. “In tennis-ball cricket, I used to see that the bhaiyas would just bowl fast. That’s why I took to pace bowling,” Kranti told Sportstarin an exclusive interview during the 2025 edition of the Women’s Premier League — her maiden WPL campaign, where she played for the UP Warriorz.
The 21-year-old would go on to finish the WPL 2025 campaign with six wickets in eight matches.
Kranti made her WODI debut in the final of the Tri-Series on May 11, 2025, against Sri Lanka. In May 2025, she was named in the ODI and T20I squad for the series against England.
