Ayasha Rahman

Ayasha Rahman Shukhtara Boishakhi is a Bangladeshi cricketer who plays for the Bangladesh national [women's cricket team|Bangladesh cricket team]. She plays as a right-handed batter and right-arm off break bowler. Rahman was born in Khulna, Bangladesh.

Career

Rahman was a member of the team that won the silver medal in the Cricket at the [2010 Asian Games – Women|women's cricket tournament] at the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, China.
Rahman made her ODI debut against Pakistan on 23 August 2012 and her T20I debut against India on 5 April 2013. In June 2018, she was part of Bangladesh's squad that won their first ever Women's Asia Cup title, winning the 2018 [Women's Twenty20 Asia Cup] tournament. Later the same month, she was named in Bangladesh's squad for the 2018 [ICC Women's World Twenty20 Qualifier] tournament. She was the leading run-scorer for Bangladesh in the tournament, with 89 runs in five matches. Following the conclusion of the tournament, she was named as the rising star of Bangladesh's squad by the International Cricket Council.
In October 2018, she was named in Bangladesh's squad for the 2018 ICC [Women's World Twenty20] tournament in the West Indies, where she became the leading run-scorer for Bangladesh, with 59 runs in four matches.
In August 2019, she was named in Bangladesh's squad for the 2019 ICC [Women's World Twenty20 Qualifier] tournament in Scotland. In November 2019, she was named in Bangladesh's squad for the Cricket at the [2019 South Asian Games – Women's tournament|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.