Jasia Akhtar

Jasia Akhtar is an Indian woman cricketer from the Shopian district of Jammu and Kashmir. She scored an unbeaten 44 runs for the LIC Chandigarh XI Cricket team against the Sri Lanka XI Cricket team in the final of the T20 Queens XI Cricket League. Akhtar has represented the Punjab Cricket Team since 2013 in the women's national level cricket tournaments organized by the Board of Control for Cricket in India. She became the first woman cricketer from Jammu and Kashmir to be selected for the India women's national cricket team. In January 2019, she was named in India Red's team for the 2018–19 Senior Women's Challenger Trophy. Jasia Akhtar was part of the IPL Trailblazers team in Women's T20 Challenge led by Smriti Mandhana in 2019.
Jasia’s father Gul Mohammad Wani owns a very small apple orchard in Shopian and works as a full-time farmer. 