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Full name | Isa Tara Guha | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England | 21 May 1985|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Right-arm medium | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Role | Bowler | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Test debut(cap 137) | 14 August 2002 v India | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last Test | 22 January 2011 v Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ODI debut(cap 94) | 10 August 2001 v Scotland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last ODI | 21 October 2011 v South Africa | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ODI shirt no. | 19 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
T20I debut(cap 5) | 5 August 2004 v New Zealand | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last T20I | 29 October 2011 v South Africa | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1998–1999 | Thames Valley | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2000–2014 | Berkshire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source:CricketArchive,7 March 2021 |
Isa Tara Guha (born 21 May 1985) is an English sports television commentator and radio cricket broadcaster,and former England cricketer who played in the 2005 South Africa World Cup and the 2009 Australia World Cup. [1]
Guha cites winning the World Cup in 2009 as her playing career highlight. [2] As a right-arm medium bowler and right-handed batter,she represented England in 8 Test matches,83 One Day Internationals and 22 Twenty20 Internationals between 2001 and 2011. [3] She previously played minor counties cricket for Berkshire CCC and for Thames Valley CC. [4]
Born at High Wycombe,Buckinghamshire,her parents (Barun Guha and Roma née Deb) emigrated from Calcutta in West Bengal,India to Great Britain in the 1970s. [5] Guha started playing cricket with her elder brother [6] when she was about eight [5] and was selected for the Development England side aged 13. [7]
Guha attended Wycombe High School,a grammar school for girls, [8] before going up to University College London where she read biochemistry and molecular biology (graduating BSc),then neuroscience (MPhil). [9] [10]
A right arm fast-medium bowler,Guha made her Test cricket debut at 17 against India during their tour of England in 2002. [12] During that tour,Guha played in the 2002 Women's Tri-Series and performed well,taking three wickets in England's loss against New Zealand in the final. [13]
The first woman of Indian heritage to represent England at cricket, [14] in 2002,Guha was named BBC Asian Network Sports Personality of the Year. [15]
Guha's career best Test bowling figures were 5 for 40 in her penultimate Test match against Australia at the Bradman Oval in February 2008,where she took 9 wickets in the match and received the Player of the Match Award [16] as England retained The Ashes. [17] Her best bowling in 83 ODIs was 5 for 14 against the West Indies later in 2008. [18] In the same year,Guha rose to become the number one bowler in the ICC Women's One-Day International rankings. [19]
An integral part of the England team which won the 2009 World Cup,Guha announced her retirement from international cricket on 9 March 2012,stating she would continue to play county cricket for Berkshire. [20]
Guha with Lynsey Askew shared the world record batting partnership for the ninth wicket in WODIs of 73 runs from 2007 until 2024. [21] [22]
Guha writes a column for the BBC Sport website [23] and is a Test Match Special commentator. [24] She joined ITV Sport in April 2012 as a co-presenter of ITV4's coverage of the Indian Premier League. [25] [26] [27]
In 2016,Guha was a member of the inaugural Triple M radio Test cricket commentary team in Australia. [28] In 2018,she was a commentator for Sky Sports for the England/Pakistan Test matches, [29] and was named as a commentator for Fox Cricket for their Australian cricket coverage. [30] She was also a member of the commentary team at the 2019 Cricket World Cup. [31] In 2020 she was the lead presenter of a new BBC TV Test and ODI cricket highlights show. [32] [33]
In 2023,Guha joined the tennis presenting team for the BBC's coverage of the Wimbledon Championships, [34] and of the Paris Olympics in 2024. [35]
Isa Guha is an Ambassador (or "Supporter") [36] for Sporting Equals [37] and the British Asian Trust. [27] [38] In 2023,she launched the Got Your Back initiative in order to support female cricket players. [39]
Guha is a member of Marylebone Cricket Club. [40]
On 16 September 2018,Guha married her long-time boyfriend,musician Richard Thomas,a member of the band Brother &Bones. [41]
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