Purnima Rau

Purnima Rau, (born 30 January 1967 in Secunderabad, Andhra Pradesh) is an Indian ex-cricketer. She played Women's Test cricket (5 matches between 1993 and 1995) and ODI cricket for India (33 matches between 1993 and 2000). She captained Air India Women's cricket team in Indian domestic women's cricket. She captained the Indian team in 3 Test matches and 8 ODI matches.

An all-rounder, she played most of her ODI innings in the middle order and bowled right arm offspin. Currently, she is a coach associated with development of youth and women's cricketers in Hyderabad. Purnia Rau was the coach for India women's cricket team . She was relieved from her duties of coach of India Women's cricket team by BCCI in April 2017 without being communicated directly.

References

Profile from CricketArchive
Player profile from Cricinfo

India women's national cricket team – current squad
Squad:	1 Gayakwad 3 Raj (c) 5 Verma 6 Sharma 7 Rana 8 Bisht 11 Kalpana 12 Pandey 14 Raut 15 Kumari 16 Kamini 18 Mandhana 24 Yadav 25 Goswami 59 Vanitha 79 Veda 82 Patil 84 Kaur 99 Niranjana
Support staff:	Team director: n/a Head coach: Purnima Rau Assistant coach: n/a Bowling coach: n/a Fielding coach: n/a
Only BCCI's contracted players for 2015-16 or who have played in the most recent series are listed. A fuller list of recent players can be found at the main article.

India squad – 2000 Women's Cricket World Cup
1 Chopra 2 David 3 Dhokarikar 4 Harikrishna 5 Jain (c) 6 Kala 7 Kaul 8 Kirkire 9 Marathe 10 Margrate 11 Raj 12 Rau 13 Roy 14 Shastri 15 Singh

India squad – 2016 ICC Women's World Twenty20
3 Raj(c) 25 Goswami (vc) 8 Bisht 1 Gayakwad 16 Kamini 84 Kaur 79 Veda 18 Mandhana 99 Niranjana 15 Pandey 82 Patil 6 Sharma 59 Vanitha 5 Verma 24 Yadav Coach: Rau

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