Arundhati Reddy profile: role, journey, teams and India career
Arundhati Reddy's cricket profile: her right-arm pace role, Hyderabad beginnings, domestic moves, India debuts and Women's Premier League journey.
- Arundhati Reddy is an India bowler who bats right-handed and bowls right-arm medium-fast; ESPNcricinfo lists her date of birth as 10 April 1997.
- She began playing cricket at 12 and made her Hyderabad Under-19 debut at 15, according to ESPNcricinfo's player profile.
- Her domestic path includes Hyderabad, a move to Railways in 2017-18 and a move to Kerala in 2023-24, as described by ESPNcricinfo.
- Reddy made her WT20I debut against Sri Lanka on 19 September 2018 and her WODI debut against South Africa on 19 June 2024.
- Her franchise record includes Supernovas, Trailblazers and Delhi Capitals; Wikipedia's current team table also lists Royal Challengers Bengaluru from 2026.
- Career totals in this profile are a snapshot only: ESPNcricinfo listed 11 WODIs and 54 WT20Is when retrieved on 11 September 2026.
A seam-bowling role for India
Arundhati Reddy is an Indian cricketer whose primary role is bowling. ESPNcricinfo lists her as a right-handed batter and right-arm medium-fast bowler, born on 10 April 1997. The combination matters in a limited-overs side: her central task is to contribute pace bowling, while her batting is part of the wider balance expected from a lower-order player.
This is a cricket profile rather than a claim about a fixed future role or selection. It focuses on the publicly documented route from Hyderabad age-group cricket to India, domestic moves and the Women's Premier League. It does not infer personal, educational or family details that are not needed to understand that playing career.
Starting at 12 and reaching Hyderabad Under-19
According to ESPNcricinfo, Reddy started playing cricket when she was 12. By 15, she had made her Under-19 debut for Hyderabad. Those two milestones show a rapid progression through an age-group pathway, but they should not be overstated as a complete account of her development: public profile material documents the steps, not every session or influence behind them.
The same ESPNcricinfo account says she initially wanted to keep wicket before Hyderabad coach Savita Nirala and former India off-spinner Nooshin Al Khadeer steered her towards seam bowling and an allrounder-shaped game. Her senior profile now identifies her more simply and precisely as a bowler, with right-arm medium-fast bowling as the defining skill.
Domestic cricket: Hyderabad, Railways and Kerala
Reddy's senior domestic journey began with Hyderabad. ESPNcricinfo says she moved to Railways in the 2017-18 season, a change that came shortly before her first India appearance. The move is useful career context because domestic teams are the competitive base from which players build rhythm, roles and national selection cases; it is not evidence by itself of a guaranteed international place.
ESPNcricinfo further reports that she left her Railways job and switched teams to Kerala in 2023-24 on the suggestion of former India women's fielding coach Biju George. Wikipedia's team table still lists Railways from 2017-18 onward, so its current domestic listing does not fully align with the ESPNcricinfo career narrative. This profile records the documented moves rather than presenting the conflicting team tables as a settled current-status claim.
India debut in T20Is, then a 2024 ODI return
Reddy made her Women's Twenty20 International debut against Sri Lanka at Katunayake on 19 September 2018. ESPNcricinfo says she then featured regularly in T20 internationals from 2018 to 2021, including India's squads at the 2018 and 2020 T20 World Cups. That period placed her in the national white-ball system, even when competition for seam-bowling places was strong.
Her Women's One-Day International debut came much later, against South Africa at Bengaluru on 19 June 2024. ESPNcricinfo links her return to the national side in 2024 to a successful stretch with Delhi Capitals in the Women's Premier League. The gap between the two international debuts is therefore part of the story: a player who entered through T20Is later added the 50-over format after rebuilding her case in domestic and franchise cricket.
From Supernovas and Trailblazers to Delhi Capitals
Before the Women's Premier League, Reddy represented Supernovas in 2019 and 2020 and Trailblazers in 2022, according to Wikipedia's career table. She then played for Delhi Capitals from 2023 to 2025. ESPNcricinfo specifically identifies her Delhi Capitals seasons as an important part of the run that helped her return to India's side in 2024.
Wikipedia's current team table lists Royal Challengers Bengaluru from 2026, alongside the earlier Delhi Capitals spell. Taken together, the public record places Delhi Capitals at the centre of her WPL comeback narrative while also preserving the preceding franchise teams and the later Bengaluru listing. Team affiliations can change with seasons and auctions, so readers should use the cited retrieval date rather than treat a profile as a permanent roster guarantee.
What the available international statistics show
At the 11 September 2026 retrieval recorded for this profile, ESPNcricinfo listed Reddy with 11 WODIs, 15 wickets and best figures of 4 for 26. In WT20Is, it listed 54 matches, 48 wickets and best figures of 4 for 22. Those figures describe a point-in-time record, not an all-time final total: career statistics are current only to the cited retrieval date and will change if she plays further matches.
Numbers alone do not capture every selection or role decision. They do, however, establish the basic scale of her international work at that date and distinguish the two formats in which she has represented India. The more durable outline is her pathway: Hyderabad age-group cricket, domestic transitions, a 2018 WT20I debut, a 2024 WODI debut and a franchise route that included Delhi Capitals.
Reader guide
Arundhati Reddy questions, answered
Short answers to common reader questions based on the reporting above.
What is Arundhati Reddy's role in cricket?
Arundhati Reddy is listed by ESPNcricinfo as a bowler. She bats right-handed and bowls right-arm medium-fast, making pace bowling her primary role for India.
When did Arundhati Reddy start playing cricket?
ESPNcricinfo says she began playing cricket at 12 and made her Hyderabad Under-19 debut at 15. Its profile also says she was guided away from an early interest in wicketkeeping towards seam bowling.
When did Arundhati Reddy make her India debuts?
Her WT20I debut was against Sri Lanka at Katunayake on 19 September 2018. Her WODI debut was against South Africa at Bengaluru on 19 June 2024.
Which domestic teams has Arundhati Reddy represented?
ESPNcricinfo records a move from Hyderabad to Railways in 2017-18 and a switch to Kerala in 2023-24. Wikipedia's team table still lists Railways from 2017-18 onward, so readers should note that the sources differ on the current domestic listing.
Which WPL teams has Arundhati Reddy played for?
Wikipedia lists Delhi Capitals from 2023 to 2025 and Royal Challengers Bengaluru from 2026. Before the WPL, it lists Supernovas in 2019 and 2020 and Trailblazers in 2022. ESPNcricinfo says her Delhi Capitals seasons helped her India comeback in 2024.
Sources and further reading
These references support the factual context used in this article. Links open the original publisher.
- Arundhati Reddy player profileESPNcricinfo · accessed 2026-09-11
- Arundhati ReddyEnglish Wikipedia · accessed 2026-09-11
- Arundhati Reddy (Q56678282)Wikidata · accessed 2026-09-11
