Nahida Akter

Nahida Akter is a Bangladeshi cricketer. She is a right handed batter and a slow left-arm orthodox bowler.

Career

Akter made her [Bangladeshi women's cricket team in Pakistan women's national cricket team|Pakistan in 2015–16|debut] in international matches against Pakistan in a T20 match on 30 September 2015.
In June 2018, she was part of Bangladesh's squad that won the 2018 Women's Twenty20 Asia Cup tournament, the team's first Women's Asia Cup title. Later the same month, she was named in Bangladesh's squad for the 2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 Qualifier tournament.
In October 2018, she was named in Bangladesh's squad for the 2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 tournament in the West Indies. In August 2019, she was named in Bangladesh's squad for the 2019 ICC Women's World Twenty20 Qualifier tournament in Scotland. She was the leading wicket-taker for Bangladesh in the tournament, with ten dismissals in five matches. In November 2019, she was named in Bangladesh's squad for the cricket tournament at the 2019 South Asian Games. The Bangladesh team beat Sri Lanka by two runs in the final to win the gold medal.
In January 2020, she was named in Bangladesh's squad for the 2020 ICC Women's T20 World Cup in Australia, and in November 2021, in the squad for the 2021 Women's Cricket World Cup Qualifier tournament in Zimbabwe. In Bangladesh's third match against Zimbabwe, she took her first five-wicket haul in WODI cricket.
In January 2022, she was named in Bangladesh's team for the 2022 Commonwealth Games Cricket Qualifier tournament in Malaysia. In Bangladesh's second match of the tournament, against Kenya, she took her first five-wicket haul in WT20Is. Later the same month, she was named in Bangladesh's team for the 2022 Women's Cricket World Cup in New Zealand.
She was named in the Bangladesh squad for the 2024 ICC Women's T20 World Cup.
Akter was part of the Bangladesh squad for the 2025 Women's Cricket World Cup Qualifier in Pakistan in April 2025.