Chandrakanta Kaul, also known as Chandrakantha Aheer (born 21 January 1971), is an Indian former cricketer

Cricketer

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Kaul was born in Jalandhar

Jalandhar

Jalandhar is a city in Jalandhar District in the state of Punjab, India. It is located 144 km northwest of the state capital, Chandigarh...

, Punjab

Punjab (India)

Punjab ) is a state in the northwest of the Republic of India, forming part of the larger Punjab region. The state is bordered by the Indian states of Himachal Pradesh to the east, Haryana to the south and southeast and Rajasthan to the southwest as well as the Pakistani province of Punjab to the...

. She played Women's Test cricket

Women's Test cricket

Women's Test cricket is the longest format of women's cricket and is the gender equivalent to men's Test cricket. Matches comprise four-innings and are held over a maximum of four days between two of the leading cricketing nations...

 (5 matches between 1995 and 1999) and ODI cricket for India

Indian women's cricket team

The Indian women's cricket team played their first Test match in 1976/1977, when they drew with the West Indies in a six-match series. They performed better than expected in the last Women's Cricket World Cup, reaching the finals but then losing to Australia. In 2005 they won their second Women's...

(31 matches between 1993 and 2000) . She captained the Indian team in 1 Test match and 4 ODI matches. An explosive middle-order batswoman, she played for Indian Railways in the women's domestic league. She played in England women's domestic league, representing Middlesex Women in 2001 and the Braves in 2002.