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Full name Karuna Vijaykumar Jain
Born September 9, 1985, Bangalore, Karnataka
Current age 22 years 251 days
Major teams India Women,Karnataka Women,South Zone Women
Batting style Right-hand bat
Fielding position Wicketkeeper
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
BF
SR
100
50
4s
6s
Ct
St
Tests
4
8
0
195
40
24.37
581
33.56
0
0
27
0
10
3
ODIs
36
33
5
892
103
31.85
1680
53.09
1
8
105
0
27
24
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
Tests
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
ODIs
36
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
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Career statistics
Test debut
India Women v England Women at Delhi, Nov 21-24, 2005 scorecard
Last Test
England Women v India Women at Taunton, Aug 29-Sep 1, 2006 scorecard
Test statistics
ODI debut
India Women v West Indies Women at Lucknow, Mar 6, 2004 scorecard
Last ODI
Sri Lanka Women v India Women at Kurunegala, May 11, 2008 scorecard
ODI statistics
Profile
Karu Jain made an instant impression on her debut in 2004, making 64 against West Indies, and has been an integral part of the Indian side ever since. She's the wicketkeeper, too. Her career highlight to date was reaching the World Cup final in 2005, where her team lost to Australia, although helping India to a 4-1 series win against England later on that year must come close. She struck a century in the final match and was instrumental in building up to that series victory. Yet to turn 21, she gained further experience in between those two senior events, by captaining the Young India side which toured Pakistan in that September and October.
Poor form in the ODIs in England led to Jain being dropped from India's successfulcampaign to retain the Asia Cup, hosted by India, in December 2006. She returned to the side for the Quadrangular tournament in February-March 2007 in Chennai and got three half-centuries from seven games. Her two opening century-partnerships with Jaya Sharma, in the Quadrangular, may prompt selectors to retain the two for the home series against Sri Lanka in October even though Jain missed out on being picked for the Afro-Asia tournament in June. Cricinfo Staff May 2007
