Anuradha Doddaballapur

Anuradha Doddaballapur (born 10 September 1986) is a German-Indian cardiovascular scientist and cricketer who also currently serves as the captain of the Germany women's national cricket team. She is currently a postdoctoral research scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research in Bad Nauheim. In August 2020, she became the first female cricketer in the history of international cricket to take 4 wickets in 4 balls.
Biography.
Anuradha Doddaballapur is a native of Basavanagudi, Bengaluru in the state of Karnataka. She was inspired to take up the sport of cricket during her childhood by a school mate and also due to the interest in the sport in her family. She currently lives in Frankfurt, Germany.
Career.
Early career.
She joined the training group conducted by Karnataka women's players association at the age of 12 for the 1988–99 season after being suggested by her batch mate. She then joined the Karnataka Institute of Cricket and was chosen in Karnataka's U16 squad. She also represented Karnataka at U19 level before cementing her place with the Karnataka senior women's team and played for nearly a decade.
She obtained her Bachelor of Engineering degree in Biotechnology from the New Horizon College, Bengaluru. After obtaining her bachelor's degree, she moved to UK in 2008 in order to pursue her master's degree in Medical Genetics at the Newcastle University. She also faced dilemma situation as she was caught in between cricket and higher studies.
Anuradha also started playing cricket for clubs and counties in England while being committed to higher education. She also featured in few seasons for the Northumberland women's county side, South North Cricket Club as well as Newcastle University Team. After completing her master's degree in UK, she migrated to Germany in 2011 to pursue PhD in Cardiovascular Biology at the Goethe University in Frankfurt. After settling in Frankfurt, she searched for a suitable cricket club in the city to pursue her cricketing career and joined the Frankfurt Cricket Club which was the only notable cricket club in the city. She had to join the FCC's men's cricket team due to the unavailability of women's team. She also had a brief stint for the Cologne women's team in German Women's Bundesliga from 2013 to 2015. She founded the Frankfurt Women's Cricket team at FCC in 2015 and has been the coach of the team since inception. She is an ECB Level 2 qualified coach. 
National career.
She also received her maiden call-up to the Germany national team training camp in 2013. In August 2013, she made her debut for Germany at a Women's T20 European tournament hosted by Jersey. Anuradha has been a consistent performer in the national squad since debut. She was appointed as the skipper of the national team in 2017.
On 4 February 2020, she made her WT20I debut against Oman in the first match of the bilateral series. On 14 August 2020, in the fourth match of the bilateral series against Austria at the Seebarn Cricket Ground, she set the world record in WT20I cricket by becoming the first international woman cricketer to take 4 wickets in 4 successive deliveries. She became only the third overall bowler either male or female after Lasith Malinga and Rashid Khan to achieve the feat. She took the nineteenth overall hat-trick in WT20Is, becoming the second German to do so after Anne Bierwisch, and also took her first five-wicket haul in WT20Is. Anuradha eventually ended up with a career best bowling figures of 5/1 which is also the career best bowling for by a bowler for Germany in WT20I cricket and best figures for a captain (male or female) in T20I cricket.