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Kiran Navgire is an Indian cricketer. She played for UP Warriors Women in the inaugural season of the Women’s Premier League (WPL).
Wiki/Biography
Kiran Prabhu Navgire was born on Sunday, 18 September 1994 (age 28 years; as in 2022) in Mire, Solapur, Maharashtra. Her zodiac sign is Virgo. He completed his schooling from Shri Chandrashekhar Vidyalaya, Sripur, Maharashtra. She earned a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in Hindi from Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune. He received a Master of Arts (MA) degree in Political Science and Government from Abeda Inamdar Senior College of Arts, Science and Commerce College, Pune. He represented his school in district-level and state-level competitions like Kho-Kho, Kabaddi and athletics. He won several accolades and awards for athletics in the under-16, under-19 and under-23 age groups. Kiran participated in national level games between 2010 and 2011; He won the gold medal in javelin throw at the 2011–2012 Inter-University Games.
Physical Appearance
Height (Approx): 5′ 7″
Weight (Approx): 65 kg
Hair Color: Black
Eye colour: black
Body Measurements (Approx): 34-29-35
Family
He belongs to a lower-middle-class family in Solapur, Maharashtra.
parents and siblings
His father’s name is Prabhu Navagire. He was a farmer. His mother’s name is Lata. She was a housewife. He has two brothers, Rajnarayan Navagire and Akshay Prabhu Navagire. Akshay Prabhu Navagire was a mechanical engineering graduate.
Kiran Prabhu Navgire’s parents
Rajnarayan Navgire
Akshaya Prabhu Navgire
Husband
Kiran Navgire is not married.
relationships/affairs
Not known.
Cricket
domestic
Kiran Navgire has represented Maharashtra Women, Nagaland Women, IPL Velocity and India C Women at the domestic level. In 2016, Navgire played in a university match held at the Azam Sports Academy in Pune; He met Gulzar Shaikh, who later became his coach. Sheikh and the chairman of Azam Sports Academy met her after the match and learned that she lacked professional training and came from a simple background; Both of them were impressed by his talent and gave him a chance to train for free at the academy. This left Kiran in a dilemma as she wanted to pursue a career in athletics; Both the president and the coach suggested him to choose cricket instead of athletics and later, he switched from athletics to cricket. He scored 429 runs in five matches in the tournament organized by the Pune District Cricket Association (PDCA) between the 2016 and 2017 seasons. The PDCA selectors were impressed by his talent and sent him for the state team trials in the same year; However, he was not selected for the state team. In 2017, he met Jonty Gilbile during a PDCA Shinde League match held at the Law College, Pune; Jonty Gilbeale later became his trainer. On 24 December 2017, she was selected for the Maharashtra women’s team; She made her debut against Railway Women. Kiran was a part of the Maharashtra team between 2017 and 2021; However, she was not a regular starter for the team and found it difficult to make it into the playing eleven.
Kiran Navgire with Maharashtra women’s team
In 2019, she was the second-highest run-scorer in the PDCA Sadu Shinde League (2019) with 131 runs in two matches. When domestic cricket resumed after the Covid lockdown, she was dropped from the Maharashtra women’s team for the 2021–2022 season. Kiran learns from her friends that the Nagaland women’s team is looking for guest players for the 2021–2022 season; Navagire applied to play for the team and was selected for the Nagaland women’s team. She scored 137 runs and took 11 wickets in six matches for Nagaland Women in the Women’s Senior One Day Trophy (2021–2022). The cricketer was named in the Nagaland Women’s squad for the 2021–2022 Women’s Senior T20 Trophy.
Kiran Navgire is playing for Nagaland women’s team
On 15 April 2022, she scored 162 runs in 76 balls at a strike rate of 213.16 against Arunachal Pradesh women’s team in the opening match of the Women’s Senior T20 Trophy (2021–2022) at the ACA Stadium in Barsapara. In the pre-quarterfinals of the Women’s Senior T20 Trophy, she scored 56 off 44 balls against Kerala Women; However, Nagaland lost by seven wickets and it was the first time that Nagaland qualified for the knockout stage in a domestic tournament since getting affiliation from BCCI in 2018. Kiran scored a century and four half-centuries and finished the 2021-2022 Women’s Senior T20 tournament as the top-scorer with 525 runs in seven matches. In 2022, she scored 26 runs in three matches for the India C team during the 2022–2023 Senior Women’s T20 Challenger Trophy.
Kiran Navgire with India Women’s C team
In 2022, Navagire was named in the Nagaland women’s squad for the 2022–2023 Women’s Senior One Day Trophy and 2022–2023 Women’s Senior T20 Trophy; However, the cricketers failed to repeat the previous season’s performance and Nagaland failed to progress beyond the group stages of both the tournaments.
international
t-20
In August 2022, she was named in the India women’s squad for the tour of England. On 10 September 2022, Kiran Navgire made her T20 International debut against the England Women’s team at Chester-le-Street; Navgire scored seven runs on thirteen balls. She played in the first two matches of the series and was left out of the playing eleven for the final match. On 21 September 2022, she was included in the 15-man T20 squad for the 2022 Women’s Asia Cup. Kiran was out for a duck against Malaysia Women in the Women’s Asia Cup on 3 October 2022; She played three more matches in the competition and scored ten runs against the UAE women’s team.
Indian women’s team with Asia Cup
Women’s T20 Challenge
On 16 May 2022, IPL Velocity announced the signing of Kiran Navgire ahead of the 2022 Women’s T20 Challenge. He made his debut against the Supernovas; However, he did not bat in the match and Velocity won by 7 wickets. In the second match of the tournament, he scored 69 runs from 34 balls with a strike rate of 202.94 against the Trailblazers; He started his innings with a sixer and registered the fastest half-century in the history of the tournament. In the final match of the tournament against the Supernovas, Sophie Ecclestone dismissed her for a duck; He played thirteen dot balls and was heavily criticized by the fans.
A picture of Kiran Navgire from the press conference after the match
High velocity debut 🔥 from Kiran Navgire, recording the fastest 50 #My11CircleWT20C #whistlepoddu : @IPL pic.twitter.com/37m6P6hLwL
– Chennai Super Kings (@ChennaiIPL) 26 May 2022
Women’s Premier League (WPL)
On 13 February 2023, UP Warriors Women signed her ahead of the inaugural season (2022–2023) of the Women’s Premier League. On 5 March 2023, he made his debut against Gujarat Giants and scored 53 runs from 43 balls at a strike rate of 123.26. Kiran scored 155 runs at a strike rate of 114.81 in nine matches in the 2022-2023 season of the Women’s Premier League.
record
- She scored the fastest half-century in the Women’s T20 Challenge.
- She is the first Indian player (male or female) to score more than 150 runs in a T20 cricket match.
car collection
He has Maruti Suzuki Nexa.
Kiran Navgire with his car
Salary
In 2023, UP Warriors signed him for Rs. 30 lakh for the inaugural season of WPL.
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Facts/General Knowledge
- Her jersey number in UP Warriors Women was #5.
Kiran Navgire is playing for UP Warriors Women
- In an interview, she revealed that she was inspired by Cristiano Ronaldo and Usain Bolt when she was an athlete.
- Savita Vora, a social worker, knew Navgire’s family and suggested Kiran to move from her hometown to Baramati, Maharashtra for her college education; Vora promised that the cricketer will get all the necessary help from his acquaintances during his stay in Baramati, Maharashtra.
- In her first match for UP Warriors Women, she batted with an unsponsored bat with “MSD O7” written on it; There were some issues with his sponsorship and he did not get in time for the opening match.
Have you wondered why Kiran Navgire has ‘MSD O7’ written on his bat?! #UPWarriorzUttardega #wpl pic.twitter.com/mbtoFTfF40
– UP Warriorz (@UPWarriorz) 15 March 2023
- Kiran’s school was seven kilometers away from her home and she cycled 14 kilometers daily. When he was asked about his stamina in an interview, he said that cycling would have helped him in building stamina.
- In an interview, her coach, Gulzar Shaikh, branded her as a natural power-hitter and told that she was best suited for the role of finisher in the team; He said that his athletic background could be the reason behind his power-hitting.
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