Mai Yanagida[lower-alpha 1] (born 1 December 1992) is a Japanese international cricketer.[2] In April 2019, she was named as the captain of Japan's squad for the 2019 ICC Women's Qualifier EAP tournament in Vanuatu.[3] She made her Women's Twenty20 International (WT20I) debut for Japan against Indonesia in the Women's Qualifier EAP tournament on 6 May 2019.[4] She also played for the national team in the 2013 ICC Women's World Twenty20 Qualifier, and was the part of her country's team at the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea.[1][5]
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Full name | Mai Yanagida | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1992-12-01) 1 December 1992 (age 29) Kanagawa, Japan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Right-arm off break | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Role | Bowler | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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T20I debut (cap 11) | 6 May 2019 v Indonesia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last T20I | 30 October 2022 v Hong Kong | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: ESPNcricinfo, 8 November 2022 |
Born in Kanagawa, Yanagida played softball in her youth and first played cricket as a student at Waseda University.[6][7]
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